Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: c d e k l n u
- Total Answers: 36
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
CE
- 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
- 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
- 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
- CE6 — sounds like felled, held, meld, said, sealed
- CE7 — sounds like deluge
CL
- CL5 — a stupid person; as in ninnyhammer, stupe; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead sounds like luck, pluck
- CL7 —
- CL4 — a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation); as in tell, inform; to give information to; cue; hint sounds like blew, blue, coup, crew, cue
- CL5 — as in told, informed; to give information to; as in aware, ready; acquainted; advised sounds like allude, collude, crude
- CL5 — a stupid person; as in bounce, ricochet; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead sounds like flunk, plunk
- CL7 — as in bounced, ricocheted; bounced; caromed; glanced; rebounded
CU
- CU6 — to lie close; nestle; nuzzle; snoozle; snuggle sounds like coddle, couple, huddle, muddle, puddle
- CU7 — to lie close; to lie close; nestled; nuzzled; snoozled sounds like huddled
- CU4 — as in lined, lined up; aligned; lined; lined up; queued sounds like crude, feud, queue, skewed
- CU4 — sounds like kook, queue
- CU4 — something separated from a group or lot for not being as good as the others; to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities; discard; reject; rejection sounds like call, coal, coil, color, come
- CU6 — as in screened, winnowed (out); to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities; to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities; picked over; screened sounds like called, cold, collide, collude, color
DE
- DE4 — a flat roofless structure attached to a building; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes; balcony; sundeck sounds like check, dare, dick
- DE6 — as in dressed, decorated; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; adorned; arrayed sounds like checked, direct, duct, sect, wrecked
- DE6 — sounds like heckle
- DE6 — to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information; conclude; decide; derive; extrapolate sounds like seduce
- DE7 — to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information; to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information; concluded; decided; derived sounds like reduced
- DE5 — as in dickens; as in the devil, the dickens; dickens; archfiend; Beelzebub sounds like bus, dice, done, dose, douse
DU
- DU4 — a member of the human race; to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery; to move suddenly aside or to and fro; baby; being sounds like buck, chuck, decay, deck, decoy
- DU6 — to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery; to move suddenly aside or to and fro; to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid; avoided; dodged sounds like decay, decoy
- DU5 — a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like dance, dense, done, once
ED
- ED5 — to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); elicit; evoke; inspire; raise sounds like juice
- ED6 — to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); elicited; evoked; inspired sounds like adjust, boost, gist, jest, joust
KN
- KN7 — to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); to yield to the control or power of enemy forces; as in pitch in, dig in; blink; bow sounds like buckle, chuckle, nickel
- KN8 — as in pitched in, dug in; as in focused (on), concentrated (on); as in submitted (to), succumbed (to); applied (oneself); buckled (down) sounds like buckled
LU
- LU4 — success that is partly the result of chance; the uncertain course of events; as in hit (upon), pitch (upon); fortunateness; fortune sounds like buck, chuck, c**, duck, lack
- LU6 — as in hit (upon), pitched (upon); chanced (upon); encountered; found; happened (on or upon) sounds like duct, locked
NE
- NE4 — a broad geographical area; a narrow body of water between two land masses; a very small distance or degree; belt; corridor sounds like check, deck, heck, knack, knell
- NE6 — as in nosed, cuddled; having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude; marked by or showing careful attention to set forms and details; billed; canoodled sounds like checked, knelt, sect, wrecked
UN
- UN7 — sounds like needed
- UN5 — to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); blink; bow sounds like ankle