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! 🤣
AC
- 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
- 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
- AC6 — to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal) synonyms—acquiesce, agree, assent, come round, consent sounds like—exceed
- AC7 — to give or express one's approval (as to a proposal) synonyms—acquiesced, agreed, assented, came round, consented sounds like—axiom
- AC4 — as in nailed synonyms—nailed, brought about, effected, effectuated, implemented sounds like—assert, bust, dust, east, gust
- 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
- AC5 — to feel or cause physical pain synonyms—hurt, pained, smarted sounds like—ant, apt, aunt, matched, patched
- 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
- 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
- AD5 — resulting in an increase in amount or number synonyms—additional, another, else, farther, fresh sounds like—acid, arid, avid, dud, p*
AH
- 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
- AI4 — a person who helps a more skilled person synonyms—adjunct, adjutant, aid, apprentice, assistant sounds like—ace, ache, add, age, aged
- 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
- 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
- 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
- CA6 — a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things synonyms—bin, box, case, casket, chest sounds like—daddy, kiddie, paddy
- 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
- 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
- CA5 — to cover with a hardened layer synonyms—crusted, encrusted, rimed sounds like—baked
CH
- 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
- CH4 — a beverage that is a blend of black tea, honey, spices, and milk sounds like—awry, buy, die, dye
- 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
- CH5 —
- 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
- 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
- DA4 — a small freshwater European cyprinid fish (Leuciscus leuciscus); any of various small North American freshwater cyprinid fishes sounds like—ace, base, case, chase
- DA5 — as in summerhouse synonyms—summerhouse, bach, cabin, camp, chalet sounds like—batch, catch, catcher, catchup, catchy
DE
- 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
- DE8 — a stupid person synonyms—airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, bubblehead sounds like—redhead
- 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
- 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
- EA4 — being one of a group synonyms—any, every sounds like—b**, beech, eel, eke, etch
HA
- 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
- 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
- HA4 — sounds like—hock, hockey
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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