NYT π CluesβTue. 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! π€£
AC
- AC6 β to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal); as in comply (with), accept; acquiesce; agree; assent sounds like exceed
- AC7 β 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
- AC8 β 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
- AC4 β as in nailed; as in surpassed, topped; nailed; brought about; effected sounds like assert, bust, dust, east, gust
AL
- AL9 β 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
- BL4 β 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
- BO5 β sounds like base, bass, beau
CA
- CA5 β a group involved in secret or criminal activities; as in team (up), collaborate; conspiracy; crew; gang sounds like banal, bubble, cobble, collage, couple
- CA6 β sounds like cobble, cobbler
- CA6 β as in drove, rode; bused; coached; cruised; drove sounds like crabbed, jabbed
- CA5 β 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
- CA6 β sounds like fabled
- CA8 β 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
- CA5 β sounds like cocaine, coco, cocoa, cocoon, cuckoo
- CA4 β 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
- CA5 β 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
- CA8 β sounds like fallible
- CA8 β
- CA6 β 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
- CE4 β 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
- CE5 β 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
- CE5 β a person who is widely known and usually much talked about; cause cΓ©lΓ¨bre; celebrity; figure; icon sounds like carob, cherub, club, felon, jealous
- CE4 β 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
- CE6 β sounds like felled, held, meld, said, sealed
- CE5 β sounds like bellow, fellow, mellow, self, sell
CL
- CL4 β 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
- CL5 β sounds like blade, glade, lade, laid
- CL6 β sounds like coca
- CL4 β 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
- CO4 β sounds like boll, bowl, call
- CO6 β to make or assemble roughly or hastily; jury-rig; patch (together); throw up sounds like cable, gobble, hobble, wobble
- CO7 β to make or assemble roughly or hastily; jury-rig; patch (together); throw up
- CO4 β
- CO5 β
- CO4 β as in epilogue, postlude; epilogue; postlude; addendum; afterword sounds like soda
- CO7 β sounds like audible, capable, credible, double, edible
- CO6 β 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
- CO7 β 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
- CO4 β a collection or system of rules of conduct; as in encrypt, encode; as in nickname; canon; constitution sounds like bode
- CO5 β as in encrypted, encoded; ciphered; enciphered; encoded; encrypted
- CO4 β as in undergraduate, postgraduate; collegian; postgraduate; undergraduate; pupil
- CO4 β
- CO4 β 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
- CO6 β sounds like alas, bulb, cab, canal, clad
- CO5 β as in curred; curred; fizzed; hissed; murmured sounds like crude, curd
- CO4 β 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
- CO6 β as in frozen, chilled; to cause to lose heat; to become still and orderly; chilled; frosted sounds like called, pooled
DA
- DA4 β sounds like ace, base, case, chase
DE
- DE7 β a sudden violent event that brings about great loss or destruction; something that has failed; apocalypse; calamity; cataclysm sounds like double
- DE6 β
- DE5 β as in sticker, stamp; badge; plaque; seal; stamp sounds like fickle, nickel, pickle, sickle, tickle
- DE4 β sounds like echo
- DE6 β to change (as a secret message) from code into ordinary language; to have a clear idea of; break; crack; decipher sounds like code
- DE7 β 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
- LA4 β 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
- LA5 β 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
- LO5 β as in regional; a local unit of an organization; a usually longtime resident of a locality; regional; aboriginal sounds like focal, vocal
- LO6 β 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
- LO4 β 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