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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.

• clowned^†  (CL7)
• cell  (CE4)
• celled  (CE6)
• cello  (CE5)
• clod  (CL4)
• clone  (CL5)
• cloned  (CL6)
• clown  (CL5)
• coddle  (CO6)
• coddled  (CO7)
• cold  (CO4)
• colleen  (CO7)
• colon  (CO5)
• colonel  (CO7)
• condole  (CO7)
• condoled  (CO8)
• condolence  (CO10)
• cool  (CO4)
• cooldown  (CO8)
• cooled  (CO6)
• cowl  (CO4)
• dell  (DE4)
• dole  (DO4)
• doled  (DO5)
• doll  (DO4)
• dolled  (DO6)
• doodle  (DO6)
• doodled  (DO7)
• dowel  (DO5)
• dwell  (DW5)
• dwelled  (DW7)
• lede  (LE4)
• lend  (LE4)
• lewd  (LE4)
• loco  (LO4)
• locoweed  (LO8)
• lode  (LO4)
• loll  (LO4)
• lolled  (LO6)
• lone  (LO4)
• loon  (LO4)
• lowdown  (LO7)
• lowed  (LO5)
• needle  (NE6)
• needled  (NE7)
• newel  (NE5)
• noel  (NO4)
• noodle  (NO6)
• noodled  (NO7)
• olden  (OL5)
• oleo  (OL4)
• weld  (WE4)
• welded  (WE6)
• well  (WE4)
• welled  (WE6)
• wool  (WO4)
• woolen  (WO6)

Answer Definitions

• clowned^† (verb): simple past tense and past participle of clown
• cell (noun): A single-room dwelling for a hermit.
• celled (adjective): Containing cells; cellular.
• cello (noun): A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
• clod (noun): A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
• clone (noun): A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
• cloned (verb): simple past tense and past participle of clone
• clown (noun): A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig.
• coddle (verb): To treat gently or with great care.
• coddled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of coddle
• cold (adjective): Having a low temperature.
• colleen (noun): girl
• colon (noun): The punctuation mark ":".
• colonel (noun): A commissioned officer in an armed military organization, typically the highest rank before flag officer ranks (generals). It is generally found in armies, air forces or naval infantry (marines).
• condole (verb): Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone. To express deep sorrow; to grieve, to lament.
• condoled (verb): simple past and past participle of condole
• condolence (noun): Comfort, support or sympathy.
• cool (adjective): Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
• cooldown (noun): The minimum length of time that the player needs to wait after using an ability or item before it can be used again.
• cooled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of cool
• cowl (noun): A monk's hood that can be pulled forward to cover the face; a robe with such a hood attached to it.
• dell (noun): A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.
• dole (verb): To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.
• doled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of dole
• doll (noun): A toy in the form of a human.
• dolled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of doll
• doodle (noun): A fool, a simpleton, a mindless person.
• doodled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of doodle
• dowel (noun): A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
• dwell (noun): A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
• dwelled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of dwell
• lede (noun): A man; a person.
• lend (verb): To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
• lewd (adjective): Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
• loco (adverb): A direction in written or printed music to be returning to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher or lower.
• locoweed (noun): Any of several plants indigenous to the western United States, of genus Oxytropis or Astragalus.
• lode (noun): A way or path; a road.
• loll (verb): To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
• lolled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of loll.
• lone (adjective): Solitary; having no companion.
• loon (noun): An idler, a lout.
• lowdown (noun): inside information, the story or truth.
• lowed (verb): simple past tense and past participle of low
• needle (noun): A long, thin, sharp implement usually for piercing as in sewing, embroidery, acupuncture, tattooing, body piercing, medical injections, sutures, etc; or a blunt but otherwise similar implement used for forming loops or knots in crafts such as darning, knitting, tatting, etc.
• needled (adjective): Covered or armored with needles.
• newel (noun): A central pillar around which a staircase spirals.
• noel (noun): A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol.
• noodle (noun): a string or strip of pasta
• noodled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of noodle
• olden (adjective): From or relating to a previous era.
• oleo (noun): A type of energy-absorbing landing gear strut in which sudden compression or extension of the strut causes a gas-filled chamber to push or pull a piston which forces oil through a small orifice, resulting in absorption of energy through viscous effects.
• weld (noun): A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.
• welded (verb): simple past tense and past participle of weld
• well (adverb): Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.
• welled (verb): simple past tense and past participle of well
• wool (noun): The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
• woolen (adjective): Made of wool.