NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 7 October, 2022

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

Letters: a  c  d  e  h  i  k

• Total Answers: 41
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

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AC

1. AC6 — gum arabic; any of a large genus (**) of leguminous shrubs and trees of warm regions with leaves pinnate or reduced to phyllodes and white or yellow flower clusters sounds like—occasion
2. AC4 — a small, dark purple, berrylike fruit with a juicy pulp that is often used in beverages or eaten raw and that is produced by a tall, slender palm (Euterpe oleracea) native to tropical rain forests of Central and South America; the palm (Euterpe oleracea) that produces berries; a beverage made from the juice of the berry sounds like—occur, sky
3. AC6 — to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal) synonyms—acquiesce, agree, assent, come round, consent sounds like—exceed
4. AC7 — to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal) synonyms—acquiesced, agreed, assented, came round, consented sounds like—axiom
5. AC4 — as in nailed synonyms—nailed, brought about, effected, effectuated, implemented sounds like—assert, bust, dust, east, gust
6. AC4 — a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body synonyms—pain, pang, prick, shoot, smart sounds like—age, aid, aide, ail, aim
7. AC5 — to feel or cause physical pain synonyms—hurt, pained, smarted sounds like—ant, apt, aunt, matched, patched
8. AC4 — causing or characterized by the one of the four basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by s; having or showing a habitually bad temper; marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings synonyms—ic, **ulous, sour, sourish, tart sounds like—added, arid, avid
9. AC6 — causing or characterized by the one of the four basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids; marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings synonyms—acid, acidulous, sour, sourish, tart sounds like—ascetic, civic, cynic, pacific

AD

10. AD5 — resulting in an increase in amount or number synonyms—additional, another, else, farther, fresh sounds like—acid, arid, avid, dud, p*

AH

11. AH5 — so as to precede something in order of time; toward a point * in space or time; toward or at a point lying in advance in space or time synonyms—afore, already, antecedently, anteriorly, before sounds like—head

AI

12. AI4 — a person who helps a more skilled person synonyms—adjunct, adjutant, aid, apprentice, assistant sounds like—ace, ache, add, age, aged
13. AI5 — to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end synonyms—abetted, assisted, backed, backstopped, helped sounds like—added, dud, faded, jaded

CA

14. CA5 — a collection of things kept available for future use or need; a supply stored up and often hidden away synonyms—deposit, hoard, reserve, store, hoard sounds like—ash, bash
15. CA6 — to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place; to put into a hiding place synonyms—hoarded, laid away, laid by, laid in, laid up sounds like—matched, patched
16. CA6 — a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things synonyms—bin, box, case, casket, chest sounds like—daddy, kiddie, paddy
17. CA7 — one who waits about for odd jobs; one who assists a golfer especially by carrying the clubs; a wheeled device for conveying things not readily carried by hand
18. CA4 — a small usually rounded mass of minced food that has been fried; something easily done or dealt with synonyms—croquette, cutlet, fritter, galette, patty sounds like—ache, bake, cock, coke
19. CA5 — to cover with a hardened layer synonyms—crusted, encrusted, rimed sounds like—baked

CH

20. CH4 — a subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic language family comprising numerous languages of northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon, and ** sounds like—add, bad, dad, fad, had
21. CH4 — a beverage that is a blend of black tea, honey, spices, and milk sounds like—awry, buy, die, dye
22. CH4 — an annual herb (Salvia hispanica) of the mint family that is native to Mexico and Guatemala, has spikes of blue, purple, or white flowers, and is grown for its grayish, edible, mucilaginous seeds which are eaten whole or used especially to make a beverage or oil; also : any of several related salvias (especially Salvia columbariae) of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico; the seed of a ** sounds like—keel, keen, keep, key, keyed
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24. CH9 — any of several small North American oscine birds (genus Poecile of the family Paridae) that are related to the titmice, usually have the crown of the head distinctly darker than the body, and have sometimes been placed especially formerly in a related genus (Parus) sounds like—rickety, wicked

CI

25. CI6 — any of a family (Cicadidae) of homopterous insects which have a stout body, wide blunt head, and large transparent wings and the males of which produce a loud buzzing noise usually by stridulation sounds like—acacia, arcade, became, decade, decayed

DA

26. DA4 — a small freshwater European cyprinid fish (Leuciscus leuciscus); any of various small North American freshwater cyprinid fishes sounds like—ace, base, case, chase
27. DA5 — as in summerhouse synonyms—summerhouse, bach, cabin, camp, chalet sounds like—batch, catch, catcher, catchup, catchy

DE

28. DE4 — no longer living; lacking in gaiety, movement, or animation; depleted in strength, energy, or freshness synonyms—asleep, breathless, cold, deceased, defunct sounds like—bed, dad, dare
29. DE8 — a stupid person synonyms—airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, bubblehead sounds like—redhead
30. DE10 — to make especially a return trip without a load; to deadhead a plant; to remove the faded flowers of (a plant) especially to keep a neat appearance and to promote reblooming by preventing seed production sounds like—redheaded
31. DE6 — a group or set of 10 : such as; a period of 10 years; a division of the rosary that consists primarily of 10 Hail Marys

EA

32. EA4 — being one of a group synonyms—any, every sounds like—b**, beech, eel, eke, etch

HA

33. HA4 — to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently; to put up with (something painful or difficult) synonyms—address, contend (with), cope (with), field, grapple (with) sounds like—back
34. HA6 — to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently; to put up with (something painful or difficult) synonyms—addressed, contended (with), coped (with), fielded, grappled (with) sounds like—act, backed, fact, hooked, packed
35. HA4 — sounds like—hock, hockey
36. HA4 — a common (Merluccius bilinearis) of the northern Atlantic coast of the U.S. that is an important food fish sounds like—ache, bake, cake, fake

HE

37. HE4 — the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; the place of leadership or command; a light mass of fine bubbles formed in or on a liquid synonyms—bean, block, dome, mazard, nob sounds like—a, bed, dead, had, hadd
38. HE8 — a dull, unpleasant, or difficult piece of work; something that is a source of irritation synonyms—bear, beast, chore, job, killer sounds like—haddock, medic
39. HE6 — to go on a specified course or in a certain direction; to be at the front of; to be in charge of synonyms—bore, made, led, bossed, captained sounds like—wedded

ID

40. ID4 — something imagined or pictured in the mind; someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation; something that one hopes or intends to accomplish synonyms—abstraction, cogitation, concept, conception, image

KH

41. KH5 — a light yellowish-brown cloth made usually of cotton or wool; a garment (such as a military uniform or a pair of pants) made of this cloth —usually plural; a light yellowish-brown sounds like—cock, coffee, collie, commie, cookie

acacia, acai, accede, acceded, aced, ache, ached, acid, acidic, added, ahead, aide, aided, cache, cached, caddie, caddied, cake, caked, chad, chai, chia, chica, chickadee, cicada, dace, dacha, dead, deadhead, deadheaded, decade, each, hack, hacked, haka, hake, head, headache, headed, idea, khaki