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1. Spelling Bee Grid
2. Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints
3. Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints
4. Extra Letter Hints (Incrementally Revealing) 🤯
5. Today's Complete Solution
6. Answer Definitions

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Spelling Bee Grid

The following table shows the standard Spelling Bee summary grid, which lists word lengths across the top and letters down the left-hand side. The cell where the word lengths and letters intersect displays the number of words in today's puzzle with the corresponding first letter and word length.

Two-Letter List (2LL) Hints

The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding two letters.

Three-Letter List (3LL) Hints

The following list shows the number of solution words that begin with the corresponding three letters.

Extra Letter Hints (Incrementally Revealing)

The table below lists all of the solutions to today's puzzle, but they're concealed. You can click the plus button (+) to reveal additional letters, one-by-one.

Concealed definitions are provided as additional clues. You can toggle concealment of the definitions by clicking on the concealer bar or the text that appears when the definition is visible.

Pangrams are marked with a dagger symbol (^†).

Today's Complete Solution

The words that follow are a complete listing of all acceptable words in today's New York Time Spelling Bee puzzle.

Next to the answer word you'll see the two-letter reference (2L Ref) in parentheses. We added that 2L Ref for easier translation of the spoiler-avoidant language you see on the Spelling Bee Forum and Twitter. The 2L Ref signifies a word's two start letters followed by the total number of letters in the word.

• uncloak^†  (UN7)
• anon  (AN4)
• cacao  (CA5)
• callaloo  (CA8)
• cannon  (CA6)
• canola  (CA6)
• canon  (CA5)
• cloaca  (CL6)
• cloak  (CL5)
• clock  (CL5)
• clonk  (CL5)
• coal  (CO4)
• coca  (CO4)
• cock  (CO4)
• cocoa  (CO5)
• cocoon  (CO6)
• cola  (CO4)
• colcannon  (CO9)
• colon  (CO5)
• conk  (CO4)
• cook  (CO4)
• cool  (CO4)
• cuckoo  (CU6)
• knock  (KN5)
• knoll  (KN5)
• koala  (KO5)
• koan  (KO4)
• kola  (KO4)
• kook  (KO4)
• llano  (LL5)
• loan  (LO4)
• local  (LO5)
• lock  (LO4)
• loco  (LO4)
• loll  (LO4)
• look  (LO4)
• loon  (LO4)
• nock  (NO4)
• nonlocal  (NO8)
• nook  (NO4)
• noon  (NO4)
• noun  (NO4)
• uncock  (UN6)
• uncool  (UN6)
• unlock  (UN6)

Answer Definitions

• uncloak^† (verb): To remove a cloak or cover from; to deprive of a cloak or cover; to unmask; to reveal.
• anon (adverb): Straight away; at once.
• cacao (noun): A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
• callaloo (noun): Any of various tropical plants grown in the Americas, especially of the genera Amaranthus and Xanthosoma, cultivated for their edible leaves.
• cannon (noun): A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.
• canola (noun): Any of a number of cultivars of rapeseed (Brassica napus) and closely related field mustard (Brassica rapa), which have a lower erucic acid and glucosinolate content than traditional rapeseed.
• canon (noun): A generally accepted principle; a rule.
• cloaca (noun): A sewer.
• cloak (noun): A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape, often with a hood.
• clock (noun): An instrument that measures or keeps track of time; a non-wearable timepiece.
• clonk (noun): The abrupt sound of two hard objects coming into contact.
• coal (noun): A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel.
• coca (noun): Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.
• cock (noun): A male bird, especially: A rooster: a male gallinaceous bird, especially a male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus). A cock pigeon.
• cocoa (noun): The dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made.
• cocoon (noun): The silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, the pupa.
• cola (noun): The kola plant, genus Cola, famous for its nut, or one of these nuts.
• colcannon (noun): A traditional Irish dish made from mashed potatoes and cabbage or kale, with scallions, butter, salt and pepper added.
• colon (noun): The punctuation mark ":".
• conk (noun): The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.
• cook (noun): A person who prepares food.
• cool (adjective): Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
• cuckoo (noun): Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), that has a characteristic two-note call.
• knock (noun): An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
• knoll (noun): A small mound or rounded hill.
• koala (noun): A tree-dwelling marsupial, Phascolarctos cinereus, that resembles a small bear with a broad head, large ears and sharp claws, mainly found in eastern Australia.
• koan (noun): A story about a Zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of Zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the Zen student’s mind leading to satori.
• kola (noun): A tree, genus Cola, bearing large brown seeds ("nuts") that are the source of cola extract.
• kook (noun): An eccentric, strange or crazy person.
• llano (noun): A plain or steppe in parts of Latin America.
• loan (noun): An act or instance of lending, an act or instance of granting something for temporary use.
• local (adjective): From or in a nearby location.
• lock (noun): Something used for fastening, which can only be opened with a key or combination.
• loco (adverb): A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
• loll (verb): To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
• look (verb): To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.
• loon (noun): An idler, a lout.
• nock (noun): Either of the two grooves in a bow that hold the bowstring.
• nonlocal (adjective): Not local; not specific to a location
• nook (noun): A small corner formed by two walls; an alcove.
• noon (noun): The time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
• noun (noun): A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
• uncock (verb): To straighten or flatten (remove a cocked shape).
• uncool (adjective): Not in accord with the current fashion, standards or mores of a particular group; not cool.
• unlock (verb): To undo or open a lock or something locked by, for example, turning a key, or selecting a combination.