Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Mon. 31 July, 2023

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

Letters: c  a  g  i  n  r  y

  • Total Answers: 40
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC6 β€” sounds like occasion
  2. AC4 β€” sounds like occur, sky
  3. AC5 β€” as in nailing; as in surpassing, topping; nailing; bringing about; effecting sounds like icing, sing

AR

  1. AR6 β€”
  2. AR6 β€” to turn away from a straight line or course; to turn away from a straight line or course; arching; bending; bowing
  3. AR6 β€” sounds like onyx

CA

  1. CA6 β€” to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; boxing (in); closeting; cooping (up) sounds like aging, bashing
  2. CA4 β€” clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means; slow to begin or proceed with a course of action because of doubts or uncertainty; artful; beguiling; crafty
  3. CA5 β€” a small quantity of stones heaped together that usually marks a place; barrow; cock; heap; hill sounds like corn
  4. CA6 β€” a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; betrayer; deep throat; fink; informant sounds like country
  5. CA6 β€” sounds like common, concave, condom
  6. CA6 β€” as in strapping, leathering; blackjacking; cowhiding; flagellating; fustigating sounds like cunning, kenning
  7. CA5 β€” sounds like manna
  8. CA7 β€” to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; to let go from office, service, or employment; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; breaking; breaking off sounds like cunning, kenning, tanning
  9. CA5 β€” having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment; enjoying physical comfort; astute; clear-eyed; clear-sighted sounds like cranny, fanny
  10. CA6 β€” having or showing concern for the well-being of others; to have an interest or concern for; to have an interest or concern for; attentive; beneficent sounds like bearing, chairing, daring, derring, herring
  11. CA5 β€” sounds like corny
  12. 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
  13. CA8 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; bearing; carting sounds like creeping, rallying, varying

CI

  1. CI5 β€” sounds like guitar, scar, sear, sonar, star
  2. CI5 β€” not far from (something) in time; alongside; beside; about; around
  3. CI5 β€” sounds like airy, brie, eerie, free, sari

CR

  1. CR4 β€” a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice; barranca; bluff; cliff; escarpment sounds like brag, drag, rag
  2. CR6 β€” having an uneven edge or outline; broken; jagged; ragged; scraggly
  3. CR6 β€” the case of bone that encloses the brain and supports the jaws of vertebrates; the case of bone that encloses the brain and supports the jaws of vertebrates; skulls; skull sounds like chronic, cornea, krona
  4. CR7 β€” to move from a lower to a higher place or position; to move from a lower to a higher place or position; boosting; elevating; heaving
  5. CR6 β€” an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure; check; chink; cleft; crack sounds like canny
  6. CR8 β€” as in shrinking, cowering; to draw back in fear, pain, or disgust; to draw back or crouch down in fearful submission; cowering; shrinking sounds like bridging, clanging, clearing, clipping
  7. CR6 β€”
  8. CR6 β€” needing immediate attention; as in weeping, whining; to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress; acute; burning sounds like prying, trying

CY

  1. CY4 β€” sounds like ion, lion, science, sign, sine
  2. CY5 β€” a person who distrusts other people and believes that everything is done for selfish reasons; misanthrope; naysayer; pessimist sounds like civic, scenic, sinning, sonic

GR

  1. GR7 β€” to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming; adorning; arraying; beautifying

IC

  1. IC5 β€” as in fringe benefit; to make sure, certain, or safe; to put to death deliberately; fringe benefit; award sounds like sing

NA

  1. NA4 β€” as in fed, plainclothesman; a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; fed; Federal; G-man sounds like arc, bark, dark, knock, lark

NI

  1. NI6 β€” sounds like basic, basin, casing, chasten, evasive

RA

  1. RA6 β€” as in running, fast; to engage in a contest; to proceed or move quickly; barreling; bolting sounds like casing, facing, pacing, t**
  2. 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

RI

  1. RI5 β€” sounds like christen, listen, written
  2. RI6 β€” sounds like missing, racing

acacia, acai, acing, arcana, arcing, arnica, caging, cagy, cairn, canary, cancan, caning, canna, canning, canny, caring, carny, carry, carrying, cigar, circa, cirri, crag, craggy, crania, craning, cranny, cringing, cringy, crying, cyan, cynic, gracing, icing, narc, niacin, racing, racy, ricin, ricing