Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 5 April, 2023

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

Letters: c  d  e  f  n  o  u

  • Total Answers: 48
  • 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

CO

  1. CO6 β€” something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; something that serves as a protective barrier; to surround or cover closely; armor; capsule sounds like cuckoo
  2. CO8 β€” to surround or cover closely; to surround or cover closely; bosomed; bowered; circumfused
  3. CO4 β€” a collection or system of rules of conduct; as in encrypt, encode; as in nickname; canon; constitution sounds like bode
  4. CO5 β€” as in encrypted, encoded; ciphered; enciphered; encoded; encrypted
  5. CO5 β€”
  6. CO4 β€” as in undergraduate, postgraduate; collegian; postgraduate; undergraduate; pupil
  7. CO6 β€” as in coffeehouse, tea shop; as in coffeehouses, tea shops; as in tea table, refectory table; coffeehouse; estaminet sounds like khaki, toffee
  8. CO7 β€”
  9. CO9 β€” sounds like founded
  10. CO7 β€” to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); as in consent (to), confirm; acknowledge; admit
  11. CO8 β€” to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control); to accept the truth or existence of (something) usually reluctantly; acknowledged; admitted sounds like unleaded
  12. CO5 β€” as in condominium, penthouse; bed-sitter; cohousing; condominium; duplex
  13. CO7 β€” to dismiss as of little importance; blink (at); brush (aside or off); discount; disregard
  14. CO8 β€” as in countenanced, brooked; to dismiss as of little importance; to dismiss as of little importance; brooked; countenanced sounds like bonded, candid, hardened
  15. CO4 β€” sounds like bone, can, cane, clone, clones
  16. CO5 β€” sounds like canned, honed, kind, owned
  17. CO8 β€” to throw into a state of mental uncertainty; to throw into a state of self-conscious distress; to fail to differentiate (a thing) from something similar or related; addle; baffle
  18. CO10 β€” deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure; faced with difficulty or uncertainty about what to say, think, or do; suffering from mental confusion; accursed; blasted sounds like unfounded
  19. CO6 β€” to commit to memory; to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition); to rob by the use of trickery or threats; learned; memorized sounds like bond, canned, card, fond, kind
  20. CO5 β€” as in curred; curred; fizzed; hissed; murmured sounds like crude, curd

CU

  1. CU4 β€” as in lined, lined up; aligned; lined; lined up; queued sounds like crude, feud, queue, skewed
  2. CU4 β€” a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; something that physically prevents free movement; as in sock, slap; bang; bash sounds like buff, cafe, calf, come, cough
  3. CU6 β€” as in socked, slapped; assailed; assaulted; attacked; beset sounds like cafe, coiffed, tuft

DE

  1. DE4 β€” sounds like echo
  2. 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
  3. 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
  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. DE8 β€” to declare to be morally wrong or evil; to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of; to express public or formal disapproval of; anathematize; censure sounds like renounce
  7. DE9 β€” to declare to be morally wrong or evil; to express one's unfavorable opinion of the worth or quality of; to express public or formal disapproval of; anathematized; censured sounds like announced
  8. DE5 β€” as in dickens; as in the devil, the dickens; dickens; archfiend; Beelzebub sounds like bus, dice, done, dose, douse

DU

  1. 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

EN

  1. EN6 β€” as in encrypt, code; cipher; code; encipher; encrypt sounds like anode, code, decode, echo
  2. EN7 β€” as in encrypted, coded; ciphered; coded; enciphered; encrypted sounds like unloaded

FE

  1. FE6 β€” producing abundantly; cornucopian; fat; fertile; fructuous sounds like second
  2. FE5 β€” a physical object that blocks the way; to drive danger or attack away from; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; barricade; barrier sounds like dense, hence, offense, pence, sense
  3. FE6 β€” to drive danger or attack away from; to drive danger or attack away from; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; bulwarked; covered

NE

  1. NE6 β€” as in neoconservative; neoconservative; conformist; diehard; standpatter sounds like beacon, deacon, knuckle, weaken

NO

  1. NO5 β€” as in occasional, infrequent; inconstant; infrequent; intermittent; irregular sounds like nuance

ON

  1. ON4 β€” at an earlier or previous time; having been such at some previous time; just at the moment that; erstwhile; formerly sounds like whence, wince, won

OU

  1. OU5 β€” a very small amount; ace; bit; crumb; dab sounds like b*, p*

UN

  1. UN7 β€” sounds like needed
  2. UN6 β€”
  3. UN8 β€”

cede, ceded, cocoon, cocooned, code, coded, codon, coed, coffee, cofound, cofounded, concede, conceded, condo, condone, condoned, cone, coned, confound, confounded, conned, cooed, cued, cuff, cuffed, deco, decode, decoded, deduce, deduced, denounce, denounced, deuce, dunce, educe, educed, encode, encoded, fecund, fence, fenced, neocon, nonce, once, ounce, unceded, uncuff, uncuffed