Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Fri. 10 March, 2023

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

Letters: c  a  i  l  n  p  t

  • Total Answers: 55
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC6 β€” sounds like occasion
  2. AC4 β€” sounds like occur, sky

AL

  1. AL6 β€” sounds like aspect, bloc, block, blocked, blocker

AN

  1. AN5 β€” causing or intended to cause laughter; given to good-natured joking or teasing; a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke; chucklesome; comedic sounds like attic
  2. AN10 β€” having or showing signs of eagerly awaiting something; agape; agog; anticipatory; expectant

AP

  1. AP9 β€” one who seeks an office, honor, position, or award; applier; aspirant; campaigner; candidate sounds like affluent, diligent, flippant, picket, piquant

AT

  1. AT5 β€” a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building; as in refined, cultured; cockloft; garret; loft sounds like antic, stick, tick

CA

  1. CA5 β€”
  2. CA4 β€” to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like all, ball, bawl, coal, cog
  3. CA5 β€” to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like cola, gala
  4. CA5 β€” an open man-made passageway for water; aqueduct; channel; conduit; course sounds like banal, colonel, conceal, concur, confer
  5. CA6 β€” sounds like common, concave, condom
  6. CA5 β€” sounds like manna
  7. CA4 β€” the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon; the pretending of having virtues, principles, or beliefs that one in fact does not have; the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field; diagonal; grade sounds like ant, aunt
  8. CA7 β€” as in hymn, anthem; anthem; canticle; carol; chorale
  9. CA7 β€” a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises; bar; barroom; cafΓ©; dramshop
  10. CA7 β€” a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; the total of one's money and property; coming before all others in importance; axis; base
  11. CA7 β€” a person in overall command of a ship; one in official command especially of a military force or base; the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do; commander; skip
  12. CA7 β€”
  13. CA7 β€” a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; as in deride, jeer; bird; boo; Bronx cheer
  14. CA6 β€” a short sleep; to be in a state of sleep; to sleep lightly or briefly; doze; drowse sounds like kidnap
  15. CA6 β€”
  16. CA7 β€” sounds like curtail

CI

  1. CI5 β€” sounds like psyllium, sillier, silly

CL

  1. CL4 β€” a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially; a group of persons who come from the same ancestor; body; bunch; circle sounds like can
  2. CL4 β€” a loud explosive sound; a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; bang; blast sounds like cap
  3. CL6 β€” a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured; an intensive educational or training program; hospital; infirmary; medical center sounds like chronic
  4. CL8 β€” having or showing a lack of emotion or interest; dispassionate; objective; impersonal; professional sounds like pinnacle
  5. CL9 β€” a medical professional who works directly with patients rather than in a laboratory or as a researcher; attending; hospitalist; croaker; doc sounds like coalition, commission, condition, corinthian, emission
  6. CL4 β€” a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; bang; bash sounds like blip, flip, lip, quip, slip

IL

  1. IL5 β€” sounds like black, bleak, clique, elite, flak
  2. IL7 β€” contrary to or forbidden by law; criminal; felonious; illegal; illegitimate sounds like elicit

IN

  1. IN6 β€” sounds like can't, decant, enact, encamp, enchant
  2. IN6 β€” not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it; compleat; complete; comprehensive; entire sounds like enact

IT

  1. IT6 β€” sounds like idyllic, metallic, static, titanic

LA

  1. LA6 β€” sounds like tactic
  2. LA4 β€” as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like lick
  3. LA6 β€” as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like cul, cull, local, loyal, lull

LI

  1. LI5 β€” permitted by law; lawful; legal; legit; legitimate sounds like il*
  2. LI5 β€” sounds like black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack

NI

  1. NI6 β€” sounds like basic, basin, casing, chasten, evasive

PA

  1. PA4 β€” a formal agreement between two or more nations or peoples; an arrangement about action to be taken; accord; alliance; compact sounds like act, backed, fact
  2. PA5 β€” the emotion experienced in the presence or threat of danger; to strike with fear; too overcome with panic to think or act normally; alarm; anxiety sounds like manic

PI

  1. PI4 β€” sounds like peak, peaked, peek
  2. PI7 β€”
  3. PI6 β€” a situation or state of carefree comfort; something that is easy to do; as in eat, lunch; beer and skittles; easy street sounds like cynic, panic

TA

  1. TA5 β€” understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile
  2. TA4 β€” the ability to deal with others in touchy situations without offending them; diplomacy; tactfulness sounds like act, backed, fact, packed, pact
  3. TA6 β€” something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic
  4. TA8 β€” suitable for bringing about a desired result under the circumstances; advisable; desirable; expedient; judicious
  5. TA9 β€” sounds like technician
  6. TA4 β€” sounds like torque
  7. TA6 β€” sounds like manic, panic, tonic, tunic

TI

  1. TI5 β€” as in colored, hued; colored; colorized; dyed; hued sounds like linked
  2. TI7 β€” unusually large; astronomical; Brobdingnagian; bumper; colossal sounds like italic

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