Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 20 September, 2023

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

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. CE6 β€” sounds like felled, held, meld, said, sealed
  5. CE7 β€” sounds like deluge

CL

  1. CL5 β€” a stupid person; as in ninnyhammer, stupe; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead sounds like luck, pluck
  2. CL7 β€”
  3. CL4 β€” 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
  4. CL5 β€” as in told, informed; to give information to; as in aware, ready; acquainted; advised sounds like allude, collude, crude
  5. CL5 β€” a stupid person; as in bounce, ricochet; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead sounds like flunk, plunk
  6. CL7 β€” as in bounced, ricocheted; bounced; caromed; glanced; rebounded

CU

  1. CU6 β€” to lie close; nestle; nuzzle; snoozle; snuggle sounds like coddle, couple, huddle, muddle, puddle
  2. CU7 β€” to lie close; to lie close; nestled; nuzzled; snoozled sounds like huddled
  3. CU4 β€” as in lined, lined up; aligned; lined; lined up; queued sounds like crude, feud, queue, skewed
  4. CU4 β€” sounds like kook, queue
  5. CU4 β€” 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
  6. CU6 β€” 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

  1. DE4 β€” 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
  2. DE6 β€” 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
  3. DE6 β€” sounds like heckle
  4. DE6 β€” to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information; conclude; decide; derive; extrapolate sounds like seduce
  5. DE7 β€” 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
  6. DE5 β€” as in dickens; as in the devil, the dickens; dickens; archfiend; Beelzebub sounds like bus, dice, done, dose, douse

DU

  1. DU4 β€” 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
  2. DU6 β€” 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
  3. DU5 β€” a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like dance, dense, done, once

ED

  1. ED5 β€” to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved); elicit; evoke; inspire; raise sounds like juice
  2. ED6 β€” 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

  1. KN7 β€” 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
  2. KN8 β€” 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

  1. LU4 β€” 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
  2. LU6 β€” as in hit (upon), pitched (upon); chanced (upon); encountered; found; happened (on or upon) sounds like duct, locked

NE

  1. NE4 β€” 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
  2. NE6 β€” 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

  1. UN7 β€” sounds like needed
  2. UN5 β€” 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

cede, ceded, cell, celled, cellule, cluck, clucked, clue, clued, clunk, clunked, cuddle, cuddled, cued, cuke, cull, culled, deck, decked, deckle, deduce, deduced, deuce, duck, ducked, dunce, educe, educed, knuckle, knuckled, luck, lucked, neck, necked, unceded, uncle