Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Tue. 21 March, 2023

Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: n  c  d  e  o  v  y

  • Total Answers: 51
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

CO

  1. CO6 β€” something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; something that serves as a protective barrier; to surround or cover closely; armor; capsule sounds like cuckoo
  2. CO8 β€” to surround or cover closely; to surround or cover closely; bosomed; bowered; circumfused
  3. CO5 β€”
  4. CO7 β€” to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); as in consent (to), confirm; acknowledge; admit
  5. CO8 β€” to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; acknowledged; admitted sounds like unleaded
  6. CO5 β€” as in condominium, penthouse; bed-sitter; cohousing; condominium; duplex
  7. CO7 β€” to dismiss as of little importance; blink (at); brush (aside or off); discount; disregard
  8. CO8 β€” as in countenanced, brooked; to dismiss as of little importance; to dismiss as of little importance; brooked; countenanced sounds like bonded, candid, hardened
  9. CO4 β€” sounds like bone, can, cane, clone, clones
  10. CO5 β€” sounds like canned, honed, kind, owned
  11. CO6 β€” to commit to memory; to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition); to rob by the use of trickery or threats; learned; memorized sounds like bond, canned, card, fond, kind
  12. CO7 β€” to bring together in assembly by or as if by command; to come together into one body or place; assemble; call; convoke sounds like canteen
  13. CO8 β€” to bring together in assembly by or as if by command; to come together into one body or place; to bring together in assembly by or as if by command; assembled; called
  14. CO6 β€” to cause (something) to pass from one to another; to support and take from one place to another; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; communicate; conduct
  15. CO8 β€” to cause (something) to pass from one to another; to support and take from one place to another; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; communicated; conducted
  16. CO6 β€” to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship; as in navy, flotilla; as in defender, escort; accompany; attend sounds like carve, carved, envoy
  17. CO8 β€” to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship; to go along with in order to provide assistance, protection, or companionship; accompanied; attended; chaperoned
  18. CO5 β€” a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially; body; bunch; circle; clan sounds like oven

DE

  1. DE7 β€” socially acceptable behavior; conduct that conforms to an accepted standard of right and wrong; decorum; form; propriety sounds like in***, licensee
  2. DE4 β€” to declare not to be true; to be unwilling to grant; to refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as one's responsibility; contradict; disaffirm sounds like din, dinner

DO

  1. DO4 β€” brought or having come to an end; depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; facing certain defeat, disaster, or death; complete; completed sounds like bun, dawn, dean, den, din
  2. DO5 β€” as in recipient, beneficiary; beneficiary; giftee; recipient
  3. DO6 β€” to place on one's person; to place on one's person; put on; slipped (on or into); threw (on) sounds like bond, conned, darned, fond, pond
  4. DO5 β€” a person with long experience in a specified area; the senior member of a group; old hand; old-timer; stager sounds like dun
  5. DO7 β€” as in doyen, veteran; adept; dab hand; expert; guru sounds like dun

DY

  1. DY4 β€” sounds like dawn, dean, den, dice, die

EN

  1. EN6 β€” as in encrypt, code; cipher; code; encipher; encrypt sounds like anode, code, decode, echo
  2. EN7 β€” as in encrypted, coded; ciphered; coded; enciphered; encrypted sounds like unloaded
  3. EN5 β€” brought or having come to an end; to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; complete; completed sounds like t*
  4. EN5 β€” a person sent on a mission to represent another; a person who acts or does business for another; as in postscript; agent; ambassador
  5. EN4 β€” a painful awareness of another's possessions or advantages and a desire to have them too; to have a resentful awareness of and desire for (another's possessions or advantages) or to feel resentment toward (someone) over possessions or advantages; having or showing mean resentment of another's possessions or advantages; covetousness; enviousness sounds like any

EV

  1. EV4 β€” not merely this but also; to a full extent or degree; being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; indeed; nay sounds like been, bin, chin, din, easing
  2. EV6 β€” to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; to make equal in amount, degree, or status; to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; flattened; leveled sounds like almond, avenue, avid, eaten, eon

NE

  1. NE4 β€” to have as a requirement; to be under necessity or obligation to; a state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful; bear; challenge sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
  2. NE6 β€” impossible to do without; to have as a requirement; to have as a requirement; all-important; critical
  3. NE5 β€” lacking money or material possessions; beggared; beggarly; broke; destitute sounds like beady, knead, reedy, seedy
  4. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
  5. NE6 β€” as in neoconservative; neoconservative; conformist; diehard; standpatter sounds like beacon, deacon, knuckle, weaken
  6. NE4 β€” sounds like bean, con, dean, don, eon

NO

  1. NO6 β€” to make short up-and-down movements; to make short up-and-down movements; as in dropped off, drowsed (off); bobbed; bobbled sounds like needed
  2. NO4 β€” a small rounded mass of swollen tissue; bump; knot; lump; nodule sounds like a**, bode, code, gnome, goad
  3. NO5 β€” as in occasional, infrequent; inconstant; infrequent; intermittent; irregular sounds like nuance
  4. NO4 β€” certainly not; not in any degree, way, or under any condition; no person; hardly; ill sounds like bun, done, dun, eon, fun
  5. NO4 β€” the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known

OD

  1. OD5 β€” sounds like audience

ON

  1. ON4 β€” at an earlier or previous time; having been such at some previous time; just at the moment that; erstwhile; formerly sounds like whence, wince, won

OV

  1. OV4 β€” as in stove, microwave; as in oven, stove; as in oven, stove; broiler; fryer sounds like above, abuzz, adjoin, adjourn, adjudge

VE

  1. VE4 β€” to offer for sale to the public; deal (in); market; merchandise; put up sounds like bend, end, fend, lend, mend
  2. VE6 β€” to offer for sale to the public; to offer for sale to the public; dealt (in); marketed; merchandised sounds like ended, tended

YE

  1. YE6 β€” to have an earnest wish to own or enjoy; ache (for); covet; crave; desiderate sounds like bend, end, fend, lend, mend

YO

  1. YO4 β€” sounds like bond, conned, fond, pond, wand

cocoon, cocooned, codon, concede, conceded, condo, condone, condoned, cone, coned, conned, convene, convened, convey, conveyed, convoy, convoyed, coven, decency, deny, done, donee, donned, doyen, doyenne, dyne, encode, encoded, ended, envoy, envy, even, evened, need, needed, needy, nene, neocon, neon, nodded, node, nonce, none, noon, odeon, once, oven, vend, vended, yenned, yond