NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 26 September, 2023

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

Letters: c  a  b  d  e  l  o

  • Total Answers: 59
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

  1. AC6 — to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal); as in comply (with), accept; acquiesce; agree; assent sounds like exceed

  2. AC7 — to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal); to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal); as in complied (with), accepted; acquiesced; agreed sounds like axiom

  3. AC8 — a formal expression of praise; public acknowledgment or admiration for an achievement; something given in recognition of achievement; citation; commendation sounds like addled, alkaloid, collide, collude, colored

  4. AC4 — as in nailed; as in surpassed, topped; nailed; brought about; effected sounds like assert, bust, dust, east, gust

AL

  1. AL9 — to give as a share or portion; to give out (something) to appropriate individuals; to keep or intend for a special purpose; allot; allow sounds like applicable

BL

  1. BL4 — a group of people acting together within a larger group; an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection; block; body; coalition sounds like brok, clock, flock

BO

  1. BO5 — sounds like base, bass, beau

CA

  1. CA5 — a group involved in secret or criminal activities; as in team (up), collaborate; conspiracy; crew; gang sounds like banal, bubble, cobble, collage, couple

  2. CA6 — sounds like cobble, cobbler

  3. CA6 — as in drove, rode; bused; coached; cruised; drove sounds like crabbed, jabbed

  4. CA5 — a length of braided, flexible material that is used for tying or connecting things; cord; lace; lacing; line sounds like able, cobble, fable, gable, hable

  5. CA6 — sounds like fabled

  6. CA8 — a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; a complete amount of something; array; assemblage

  7. CA5 — sounds like cocaine, coco, cocoa, cocoon, cuckoo

  8. CA4 — to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like all, ball, bawl, coal, cog

  9. CA5 — to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like cola, gala

  10. CA8 — sounds like fallible

  11. CA8 —

  12. CA6 — to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawled; bayed sounds like bald, chord, cold, cooled, cord

CE

  1. CE4 — to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; to give up (as a position of authority) formally; cough up; deliver sounds like bead, deed, feed, heed, keyed

  2. CE5 — to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; to give up (as a position of authority) formally; coughed up; delivered sounds like faded, jaded

  3. CE5 — a person who is widely known and usually much talked about; cause célèbre; celebrity; figure; icon sounds like carob, cherub, club, felon, jealous

  4. CE4 — an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall; one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided; a local unit of an organization; apartment; chamber sounds like bell, dell, fell, gel, hell

  5. CE6 — sounds like felled, held, meld, said, sealed

  6. CE5 — sounds like bellow, fellow, mellow, self, sell

CL

  1. CL4 — to cover with something that protects; as in dressed, clothed; to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes; face; sheathe sounds like glad, lad, plaid

  2. CL5 — sounds like blade, glade, lade, laid

  3. CL6 — sounds like coca

  4. CL4 — a big clumsy often slow-witted person; a small uneven mass; the loose surface material in which plants naturally grow; clodhopper; gawk sounds like cod, plod

CO

  1. CO4 — sounds like boll, bowl, call

  2. CO6 — to make or assemble roughly or hastily; jury-rig; patch (together); throw up sounds like cable, gobble, hobble, wobble

  3. CO7 — to make or assemble roughly or hastily; jury-rig; patch (together); throw up

  4. CO4 —

  5. CO5 —

  6. CO4 — as in epilogue, postlude; epilogue; postlude; addendum; afterword sounds like soda

  7. CO7 — sounds like audible, capable, credible, double, edible

  8. CO6 — to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam; to treat with great or excessive care; boil; parboil; poach sounds like cuddle, model

  9. CO7 — as in spoiled, pampered; to cook in a liquid heated to the point that it gives off steam; to treat with great or excessive care; indulged; pampered sounds like modeled

  10. CO4 — a collection or system of rules of conduct; as in encrypt, encode; as in nickname; canon; constitution sounds like bode

  11. CO5 — as in encrypted, encoded; ciphered; enciphered; encoded; encrypted

  12. CO4 — as in undergraduate, postgraduate; collegian; postgraduate; undergraduate; pupil

  13. CO4 —

  14. CO4 — having a low or subnormal temperature; lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; algid; arctic sounds like bold, called, fold

  15. CO6 — sounds like alas, bulb, cab, canal, clad

  16. CO5 — as in curred; curred; fizzed; hissed; murmured sounds like crude, curd

  17. CO4 — having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; free from emotional or mental agitation; having a low or subnormal temperature; aloof; antisocial sounds like call, cul

  18. CO6 — as in frozen, chilled; to cause to lose heat; to become still and orderly; chilled; frosted sounds like called, pooled

DA

  1. DA4 — sounds like ace, base, case, chase

DE

  1. DE7 — a sudden violent event that brings about great loss or destruction; something that has failed; apocalypse; calamity; cataclysm sounds like double

  2. DE6 —

  3. DE5 — as in sticker, stamp; badge; plaque; seal; stamp sounds like fickle, nickel, pickle, sickle, tickle

  4. DE4 — sounds like echo

  5. DE6 — to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of; break; crack; decipher sounds like code

  6. DE7 — to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of; to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; broke; cracked sounds like divided, eroded

LA

  1. LA4 — a length of braided, flexible material that is used for tying or connecting things; a length of something formed of three or more strands woven together; to cause to twine about one another; cable; cord sounds like ace, base, case, chase, face

  2. LA5 — as in embroidered, sequined; to cause to twine about one another; to scatter or set here and there among other things; bejeweled; bossed sounds like chaste, haste, leased, least

LO

  1. LO5 — as in regional; a local unit of an organization; a usually longtime resident of a locality; regional; aboriginal sounds like focal, vocal

  2. LO6 — the area or space occupied by or intended for something; the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is set; emplacement; locality; location

  3. LO4 — having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind; to cause to go insane or as if insane; balmy; barmy; bats sounds like coco, cocoa

accede, acceded, accolade, aced, allocable, bloc, bocce, cabal, cabala, cabbed, cable, cabled, caboodle, cacao, call, calla, callable, callaloo, called, cede, ceded, celeb, cell, celled, cello, clad, clade, cloaca, clod, coal, cobble, cobbled, coca, cocoa, coda, codable, coddle, coddled, code, coded, coed, cola, cold, collab, cooed, cool, cooled, dace, debacle, decade, decal, deco, decode, decoded, lace, laced, local, locale, loco