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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Mon. 17 July, 2023

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

Letters: c  a  d  i  r  t  y

  • Total Answers: 37
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC6 β€” sounds like occasion
  2. AC4 β€” sounds like occur, sky
  3. AC4 β€” causing or characterized by the one of the four basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids; having or showing a habitually bad temper; marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings; acidic; acidulous sounds like added, arid, avid
  4. AC6 β€” 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; acid; acidulous; sour sounds like ascetic, civic, cynic, pacific
  5. AC7 β€” a harsh or sharp quality; biting sharpness of feeling or expression; acerbity; acidness; acridity sounds like ability, absurdity, affinity, agility, rapidity
  6. AC5 β€” sounds like aside, asunder, bloody, buddy, custody
  7. AC5 β€” having or showing deep-seated resentment; marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings; acrimonious; bitter; embittered sounds like arid
  8. AC8 β€” a harsh or sharp quality; biting sharpness of feeling or expression; having or showing deep-seated resentment; acerbity; acidity

AD

  1. AD6 β€” a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally; a person with a strong and habitual liking for something; dopehead; doper; druggie sounds like edict

AR

  1. AR7 β€” as in Eden, Camelot; Camelot; Cockaigne; Eden; Elysium
  2. AR6 β€” having a low or subnormal temperature; lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; algid; bitter; bone-chilling

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
  2. AT7 β€” to engage the attention of; draw; entice; interest; allure sounds like tracked, tract

CA

  1. CA5 β€”
  2. CA5 β€” a covered rectangular container for storing or transporting things; bin; box; case; casket sounds like daddy, kiddie, paddy
  3. CA5 β€” sounds like beret, ferret, merit, parrot
  4. CA4 β€” a list of foods served at or available for a meal; a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor; as in note, file; menu; comedian sounds like bard, charred, chord, cod, conned
  5. CA7 β€” sounds like crack, creak, creek, guardian, hardier
  6. CA5 β€” to support and take from one place to another; to wear or have on one's person; to bring before the public in performance or exhibition; bear; cart sounds like curry
  7. CA4 β€” a wheeled usually horse-drawn vehicle used for hauling; to support and take from one place to another; as in buggy, phaeton; wagon; wain sounds like art, chart, cost, cot, court
  8. CA8 β€” a fall of water usually from a great height; a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; cascade; fall(s); waterfall sounds like counteract, interact
  9. CA5 β€” having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it; in a line or direction running from corner to corner; bad; bitchy; cruel sounds like chatty, fatty, kitty, natty, patty

CI

  1. CI6 β€” sounds like acacia, arcade, became, decade, decayed
  2. CI5 β€” not far from (something) in time; alongside; beside; about; around
  3. CI5 β€” sounds like airy, brie, eerie, free, sari
  4. CI6 β€” sounds like cynic, cystic, lyric, metric, satiric
  5. CI4 β€” a thickly settled, highly populated area; a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers; a state that has its own government and consists of a city and the area around it; asphalt jungle; burg sounds like ditty, kitty, pity, silly, sit

CR

  1. CR6 β€” a person given to harsh judgments and to finding faults; a person who makes or expresses a judgment on the quality of offerings in some field of endeavor; carper; castigator; caviler

DI

  1. DI9 β€” as in different, other; different; disparate; dissimilar; distinct sounds like acrylic, autocratic, critic, democratic
  2. DI5 β€” a statement or well-known remark that expresses an important idea, observation, or opinion; a statement or well-known remark that expresses an important idea, observation, or opinion; as in asides; ipse dixits; assumptions
  3. DI6 β€” as in academic, academician; academe; academic; academician; pedant sounds like adapt, addict, decant, deduct, duct
  4. DI8 β€” marked by or given to preaching moral values; homiletic; moralistic; moralizing; preachy sounds like dynastic

RA

  1. RA4 β€” having much high-spirited energy and movement; hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent; active; airy; animate sounds like lacey, lacy

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

TR

  1. TR5 β€” a broad geographical area; a small area of usually open land; a small piece of land that is developed or available for development; belt; corridor sounds like at*, cracked, tact

acacia, acai, acid, acidic, acidity, acidy, acrid, acridity, addict, arcadia, arctic, attic, attract, cacti, caddy, carat, card, cardiac, carry, cart, cataract, catty, cicada, circa, cirri, citric, city, critic, diacritic, dicta, didact, didactic, racy, tacit, tact, tactic, tract