NYT π CluesβFri. 3 March, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: v a c e i n t
- Total Answers: 44
- Pangrams: 3
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AC
- AC8 β to cause to function; actuate; crank (up); drive; move sounds like aggravate, motivate, re**
- AC6 β being in effective operation; having much high-spirited energy and movement; involved in often constant activity; alive; functional sounds like octave
AT
- AT9 β having the mind fixed on something; given to or made with heedful anticipation of the needs and happiness of others; paying close attention usually for the purpose of anticipating approaching danger or opportunity; absorbed; deep sounds like authentic, in*, offensive, tenting
AV
- AV5 β sounds like alien
- AV6 β to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; fly; glide; plane; soar
CA
- CA4 β sounds like comma, java, lava
- CA4 β a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface; as in submit, yield; to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure; antre; cavern sounds like cove, crave, curve
- CA6 β something (such as a piece of advice) that should be remembered when one is doing or thinking about something; admonishment; admonition; alarm; alert sounds like aviator, cleat, combat, copycat, covert
CI
- CI5 β sounds like pivot, rivet
- CI5 β relating to a city, town, or country or to the people who live there; federal; municipal; civil; national sounds like cynic
EA
- EA4 β sounds like eel, eke, h, l, thieve
EV
- EV4 β not merely this but also; to a full extent or degree; being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; indeed; nay sounds like been, bin, chin, din, easing
- EV5 β something that happens; something that might happen; a competitive encounter between individuals or groups carried on for amusement, exercise, or in pursuit of a prize; affair; circumstance sounds like invent, vent
- EV5 β to force (someone) to leave a place; deforce; deport; displace; dispossess sounds like addict, civic, depict, edict, effect
- EV7 β
- EV6 β to make known (something abstract) through outward signs; bespeak; betray; communicate; declare sounds like immense, mince, prince, quince, rinse
IN
- IN10 β sounds like deactivate
- IN8 β slow to move or act; not being in a state of use, activity, or employment; dull; inert; lethargic sounds like active, effective, elective, enact
- IN11 β as in absent, heedless; absent; absentminded; abstracted; heedless sounds like attentive
- IN9 β something that arouses action or activity; boost; encouragement; goad; impetus
- IN10 β readiness to engage in daring or difficult activity; without aid or support; action; aggressiveness; ambition
- IN9 β harsh insulting language; marked by harsh insulting language; abuse; billingsgate; fulmination
- IN6 β to create or think of by clever use of the imagination; concoct; construct; contrive; cook (up) sounds like event
- IN9 β showing a noteworthy use of the imagination and creativity especially in inventing; having the skill and imagination to create new things; artful; clever; creative
- IN6 β to request the presence or participation of; to act so as to make (something) more likely; a request for the presence or participation of someone at a specified time and place; ask; bid
- IN7 β as in guest, visitor; caller; drop-in; frequenter; guest sounds like annuity, cavity, devotee, enmity, entity
NA
- NA5 β lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; free from any intent to deceive or impress others; readily taken advantage of; aw-shucks; dewy sounds like achieve, arrive, chive, dive, eave
- NA7 β the quality or state of being simple and sincere; readiness to believe the claims of others without sufficient evidence; artlessness; greenness; guilelessness sounds like novel, novelty, novice
- NA6 β belonging to a particular place by birth or origin; being such as found in nature and not altered by processing or refining; being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing; aboriginal; autochthonous sounds like active, bated, dated, furtive, knotted
- NA4 β sounds like cave, gave, nerve, pave, rave
TE
- TE9 β determined by something else; conditional; contingent (on or upon); dependent; subject (to) sounds like sensitive
TI
- TI8 β sounds like litigate
VA
- VA6 β lacking contents that could or should be present; not being in a state of use, activity, or employment; not expressing any emotion; bare; blank sounds like agent, bacon, latent, nascent, patient
- VA6 β to put an end to by formal action; to remove the contents of; abate; abolish; abrogate sounds like baked, locate, placate, shakeout, skate
- VA9 β sounds like fascinate
- VA7 β sounds like accede, taxi, waxy
- VA4 β having too high an opinion of oneself; producing no results; having no usefulness; assured; biggety sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
- VA4 β sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
VE
- VE4 β a distinctive way of putting ideas into words; fashion; locution; manner; mode sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
- VE4 β to find emotional release for; to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion); to throw or give off; loose; release sounds like bent, cent, dent, e**, lent
VI
- VI4 β immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society; a defect in character; the practice of engaging in sexual activities for money; corruption; debauchery sounds like dice, ice, lice, nice, rice
- VI4 β to be unsuccessful; to be unsuccessful; to be unsuccessful; bomb; collapse sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, pine
- VI7 β to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; to lower in character, dignity, or quality; blemish; darken sounds like initiate, officiate
- VI6 β sounds like apace, avail, averse, debase, vase