NYT π CluesβWed. 24 May, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: t c d e i u v
- Total Answers: 38
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
CI
- CI4 β to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; adduce; instance; mention sounds like bite, byte, eyesight, fight, height
- CI5 β to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; to give as an example; adduced; instanced sounds like fitted, knitted, seated, stud
- CI5 β sounds like pivot, rivet
CU
- CU4 β clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means; making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred; very pleasing to look at; artful; beguiling sounds like a**, mute, queue
- CU5 β a lovely woman; a physically attractive person; as in dish, doll; babe; beauty sounds like beauty, catty, cavity, clubby, clutter
DE
- DE6 β the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery; the tendency to tell lies; artifice; cheating; cozenage sounds like dust
- DE6 β to take away (an amount or number) from a total; abate; knock off; subtract; take off sounds like didn't
- DE8 β to take away (an amount or number) from a total; to take away (an amount or number) from a total; abated; knocked off; subtracted sounds like addicted
- DE9 β being or provable by reasoning in which the conclusion follows necessarily from given information; a priori; deducible; derivable; inferable sounds like addictive, productive, seductive
- DE6 β to come upon after searching, study, or effort; ascertain; descry; determine; dig out
- DE8 β as in identified, discovered; to come upon after searching, study, or effort; to come upon after searching, study, or effort; discovered; identified sounds like affected, connected, directed, protected, selected
- DE9 β a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons; a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons; a person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons; dick; gumshoe
DI
- DI4 β the things that a person or animal eats considered as a whole; as in slimming, nonfattening; as in fast; nourishment; nurture sounds like riot
- DI6 β as in fasted; fasted sounds like cheated, dotted, heated, seated
- DI8 β as in dietary; dietary; enriched; fortified; beneficial sounds like aesthetic, ascetic, athletic, beatnik, derrick
DU
- DU4 β a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); channel; conduit; leader; line sounds like decay, decoy
- DU6 β sounds like addicted, decayed, dictum, directed, dotted
- DU4 β sounds like debt
- DU7 β sounds like directed, dotted, fetid, rooted
- DU5 β
ED
- ED5 β an order publicly issued by an authority; a statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned; bull; decree; diktat sounds like addict
- ED4 β to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; redraft; revamp
- ED6 β to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; redrafted; revamped sounds like dotted, oedipal
EI
- EI7 β sounds like ascetic, derrick, idyllic, poetic
ET
- ET5 β as in study; as in opus, oeuvre; study; drill; exercise sounds like stewed
EV
- EV5 β to force (someone) to leave a place; deforce; deport; displace; dispossess sounds like addict, civic, depict, edict, effect
- EV7 β to force (someone) to leave a place; to force (someone) to leave a place; deforced; deported; displaced sounds like addicted, elected, victim
- EV7 β
TE
- TE4 β feeling or showing anger; subjected to and reacting with irritation; as in raged, vituperated; angered; angry sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
TI
- TI4 β a prevailing or general movement or inclination; a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; current; direction; drift sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied
- TI5 β sounds like guided
- TI6 β being clean and in good order; as in picked up, uncluttered; to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff; antiseptic; bandbox sounds like bodied, busied, deed, divvied, giddy
- TI4 β as in bound, attached; to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; to produce something equal to (as in quality or value); attached; bound sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied
TU
- TU5 β sounds like booty, duty, sooty
- TU6 β to hold an unfavorable opinion of; to hold an unfavorable opinion of; deprecate; disapprove (of); discountenance sounds like attitude, buttock, button, cheated, coated
- TU5 β sounds like nutty, putty, touchy
- TU4 β as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo
VE
- VE6 β sounds like bated, batted, booted, dated, fetid