Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: u c d e i l n
- Total Answers: 54
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
CE
- CE7 — sounds like deluge
CL
- 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
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 — 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
- 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
- DE6 — to cause to believe what is untrue; bamboozle; beguile; bluff; buffalo sounds like elude
- DE7 — as in duped, deceived; to cause to believe what is untrue; to cause to believe what is untrue; deceived; duped sounds like gilded, secluded
- DE6 — to remove of all covering or surface layers; bare; clear; expose; scale sounds like renewed
- DE7 — lacking a usual or natural covering; to remove of all covering or surface layers; to remove of all covering or surface layers; bald; bare sounds like funded
- DE5 — as in dickens; as in the devil, the dickens; dickens; archfiend; Beelzebub sounds like bus, dice, done, dose, douse
DU
- DU4 — a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance; an adult male human being; as in tog (out or up), rig (out); beau; Beau Brummell sounds like dad, dead, deed, dew, did
- DU5 — as in togged (out or up), rigged (out); appareled; arrayed; attired; bedecked sounds like doodad
- DU4 — an earnest effort for superiority or victory over another; as in fight, battle; ball game; battle; combat sounds like dial, dowel, jewel
- DU6 — as in fought, battled; battled; clashed (with); combated; contended
- DU4 — lacking sharpness of edge or point; causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; covered over by clouds; blunt; blunted sounds like addle, cul, cull, dale, deal
- DU6 — lacking a surface luster or gloss; lacking intensity of color; lacking sharpness of edge or point; dim; dull sounds like addled
- DU5 — a stupid person; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead; bonehead sounds like dance, dense, done, once
- DU4 — as in ridge, embankment; embankment; ridge; sandbank; sandbar sounds like boon, dawn, dean, den, dew
- DU6 — as in got, worried; aggravated; annoyed; bedeviled; chafed sounds like done, fund
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
EL
- EL5 — to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery; avoid; dodge; duck; escape sounds like allude, d*, issued, lewd
- EL6 — to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery; to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery; avoided; dodged; ducked sounds like allude, allusion, avoided, fluid, loaded
EN
- EN5 — to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle; to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; imbue; inculcate; infuse sounds like undo, undue
- EN6 — to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle; to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle; imbued; inculcated
- EN5 — the state of being bored; blahs; boredom; doldrums; listlessness sounds like any
IN
- IN7 — to have as part of a whole; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; carry; comprehend; contain sounds like conclude, elude, enclose, exclude
- IN8 — to have as part of a whole; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; to have as part of a whole; carried; comprehended
- IN6 — to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest requests; beget; breed; bring sounds like deduce, ensue, entice, noose
- IN7 — to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest requests; to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); begot; bred
LE
- LE7 — sounds like loosen
LI
- LI4 — as a substitute; first; instead; rather sounds like leach, leaf, league, leak, lean
LU
- LU5 — giving off or reflecting much light; having full use of one's mind and control over one's actions; not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation; beaming; bedazzling sounds like loosen
- LU4 — a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
- LU6 — to free from distress or disturbance; to free from distress or disturbance; becalmed; calmed; composed sounds like loved
- LU4 — something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
- LU4 — sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
NU
- NU6 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; the central part or aspect of something under consideration; a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; axes; bases sounds like bouquet, clay, newly, souffle
- NU7 — sounds like click
- NU4 — lacking or shed of clothing; the state of having no clothes on one's body; lacking or shed of clothing; au naturel; bare sounds like food, knead, knew, lewd, mood
- NU5 — sounds like buddy, muddy, needy, nerdy, ruddy
- NU4 — having no legal or binding force; having no usefulness; to put an end to by formal action; bad; inoperative sounds like annul, cul, cull, dull, gull
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
- UN9 — not yet settled or decided; not feeling sure about the truth, wisdom, or trustworthiness of someone or something; open; pending; undetermined sounds like decided
- UN5 — to deprive of courage or confidence; to disengage the knotted parts of; to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy; demoralized; emasculated
- UN5 — going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount; baroque; devilish; excessive; exorbitant sounds like anew
- UN7 — sounds like aligned
- UN8 — as in unnecessary, unwanted; dispensable; unnecessary; unwanted; alternate