Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Mon. 24 April, 2023

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

Letters: r  a  c  j  l  o  u

  • Total Answers: 28
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC7 β€” something added (as by growth); accretion; addendum; addition; augmentation sounds like crewel, cruel

AJ

  1. AJ4 β€” sounds like afar, jar

AR

  1. AR4 β€” sounds like n**

AU

  1. AU4 β€” a special quality or impression associated with something; a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings; air; ambience; aroma sounds like era, oral, orb, ore
  2. AU5 β€” of, relating to, or experienced through the sense of hearing; acoustic; audial; audile; auditory sounds like choral, coral, laurel, moral, orally
  3. AU6 β€” the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; day sounds like drawer, flora, roar, trauma
  4. AU7 β€” the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; day sounds like corporal, oracle, oral

CA

  1. CA5 β€” a religious song; to produce musical sounds with the voice; to proclaim the glory of; anthem; canticle sounds like choral, coral, kennel, kettle, peril

CO

  1. CO6 β€” an ornamental chain or string (as of beads) worn around the neck; the act of taking or holding under one's control by authority of law; to take or keep under one's control by authority of law; choker; dog collar sounds like caller, calmer, cholera, dollar
  2. CO5 β€” a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; a substance used to color other materials; the hue or appearance of the skin and especially of the face; cast; hue sounds like caller, cul, cull
  3. CO5 β€” as in key, barrier reef; as in keys, barrier reefs; as in sea snake, rat snake; atoll; barrier reef sounds like aural, causal, chorus, laurel, moral
  4. CO7 β€” sounds like choral, krona
  5. CO6 β€” an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly; cage; coop sounds like curl, morale

CR

  1. CR4 β€” sounds like brok, clock, cock

CU

  1. CU7 β€” sounds like crux
  2. CU4 β€” a length of hair that forms a loop or series of loops; to follow a circular or spiral course; to sit or recline comfortably or cozily; frizz; frizzle sounds like burl, call, coal, coil, cool

JO

  1. JO7 β€” given to or marked by mature intelligent humor; indicative of or marked by high spirits or good humor; clever; facetious; humorous sounds like circular, popular, secular

JU

  1. JU5 β€” sounds like poorer

OC

  1. OC5 β€” to take place; to enter the mind of; to occur or exist at the same time; be; befall sounds like acre, other, succor, sucker, upper
  2. OC6 β€” of, relating to, or used in vision; optic; optical; visual sounds like circular, color, j**, secular

OR

  1. OR8 β€” as in prophetic, portentous; baleful; dire; foreboding; menacing sounds like granular
  2. OR4 β€” expressed or communicated by voice; made or carried on through speaking rather than in writing; spoken; uttered; vocal sounds like aura, ch, c, laurel, m**
  3. OR4 β€” sounds like aura

RA

  1. RA4 β€” as in prince, baron; baron; baronet; count; duke sounds like cholla, comma, dodge, donna, drama

RO

  1. RO4 β€” a violent shouting; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound; to make a long loud deep noise or cry; clamor; howl sounds like boar, bore, chore, core, door
  2. RO6 β€” as in baroque, arabesque; arabesque; baroque; bedizened; florid sounds like coco, cocoa
  3. RO4 β€” to form into a round compact mass; to make a low heavy rolling sound; to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions; agglomerate; ball sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal

RU

  1. RU5 β€” of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people; as in special deliveries, registered mails; as in special delivery, registered mail; bucolic; country sounds like neural

accrual, ajar, arco, aura, aural, aurora, auroral, carol, collar, color, coral, corolla, corral, croc, curacao, curl, jocular, juror, occur, ocular, oracular, oral, orca, raja, roar, rococo, roll, rural