NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 1 April, 2023

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

Letters: t  a  c  i  l  m  n

  • Total Answers: 58
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

  1. AL4 — to come to rest after descending from the air; to come down from something (as a vehicle); to come to rest after descending from the air; landed; lit sounds like eyelet, glut, gullet

AN

  1. AN4 — opposed to; not for; as in bigot, misogynist; as in bigots, misogynists; against; agin sounds like aunt, p**e, shanty

  2. AN5 — causing or intended to cause laughter; given to good-natured joking or teasing; a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke; chucklesome; comedic sounds like attic

  3. AN13 — as in inconsequential, trivial; inconsequential; indecisive; insignificant; noncritical sounds like climactic

AT

  1. AT5 — inclined or twisted to one side; askew; aslant; awry; cock-a-hoop sounds like stilt, tilt

  2. AT6 — to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to receive as return for effort; achieve; bag; chalk up sounds like obtain, stain

  3. AT5 — a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building; as in refined, cultured; cockloft; garret; loft sounds like antic, stick, tick

CA

  1. CA5 —

  2. CA4 — the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon; the pretending of having virtues, principles, or beliefs that one in fact does not have; the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field; diagonal; grade sounds like ant, aunt

  3. CA7 — as in hymn, anthem; anthem; canticle; carol; chorale

  4. CA7 — a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises; bar; barroom; café; dramshop

  5. CA7 — a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; as in deride, jeer; bird; boo; Bronx cheer

  6. CA7 — sounds like chemist, claimant, comment, commit, culminate

  7. CA7 — sounds like curtail

CL

  1. CL8 — a person who believes that he or she has a right to something (such as an amount of money); a person who claims something; heir apparent; representative; succeeder; successor sounds like ailment, blatant, element, latent, layman

  2. CL9 — of, relating to, or being a major turning point; apocalyptic; climacteric

  3. CL8 —

IL

  1. IL7 — contrary to or forbidden by law; criminal; felonious; illegal; illegitimate sounds like elicit

IN

  1. IN6 — sounds like can't, decant, enact, encamp, enchant

  2. IN7 — coming before all others in time or order; as in inscribe; earliest; first; foremost

  3. IN6 — not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it; compleat; complete; comprehensive; entire sounds like enact

IT

  1. IT6 — sounds like idyllic, metallic, static, titanic

LA

  1. LA6 — sounds like tactic

  2. LA7 — sounds like antenna

LI

  1. LI5 — permitted by law; lawful; legal; legit; legitimate sounds like il*

  2. LI4 — the attractive quality of speech or music that rises and falls in a pleasing pattern; as in croon, warble; movement; sway; swing sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt

  3. LI5 — to set bounds or an upper limit for; to mark the limits of; a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go; cap; circumscribe sounds like bigot, billet, climate, comet, demote

  4. LI4 — a soft airy substance or covering; down; floss; fluff; fur sounds like f, g, hint, leant, learnt

MA

  1. MA8 — to keep in good condition; to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections; to pay the living expenses of; conserve; keep up sounds like contain, mountain, mundane

  2. MA4 — as in beer, ale; as in beers, ales; ale; beer; brew sounds like fault, halt, melt, molt, salt

  3. MA5 — any of several extremely large rays; any of several extremely large rays; any of several extremely large rays; devilfish; manta ray

MI

  1. MI8 — feeling or displaying eagerness to fight; having or showing a bold forcefulness in the pursuit of a goal; one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause; aggressive; agonistic sounds like filament, irritant, reluctant

  2. MI7 — a group of people who are not part of the armed forces of a country but are trained like soldiers; national guard; standing army; army; array sounds like malicious

  3. MI10 — as in guardsman, minuteman; Confederate; Continental; Federal; GI sounds like deletion, delicious, deliciously, elation, emission

  4. MI4 — being in an original and unused or unspoiled state; a very large amount of money; as in coin, stamp; brand-new; fresh sounds like hint, lint, meant

  5. MI4 — sounds like bit, chit, emit, fit, hit

NA

  1. NA5 — sounds like fatal, nettle

  2. NA6 — sounds like latent

TA

  1. TA5 — understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile

  2. TA4 — the ability to deal with others in touchy situations without offending them; diplomacy; tactfulness sounds like act, backed, fact, packed, pact

  3. TA6 — something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic

  4. TA8 — suitable for bringing about a desired result under the circumstances; advisable; desirable; expedient; judicious

  5. TA9 — sounds like technician

  6. TA4 — a body of employees or servants who accompany and wait on a person; the part of the body upon which someone sits; a behind part or surface; cortege; entourage sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

  7. TA5 — a mark of guilt or disgrace; to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable; blot; brand sounds like faint, feint, paint, saint, tent

  8. TA4 — sounds like torque

  9. TA4 — sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, toffee

  10. TA4 — extending to a great distance upward; requiring considerable physical or mental effort; as in yacht, sailboat; altitudinous; high sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall

  11. TA6 —

  12. TA6 — sounds like manic, panic, tonic, tunic

  13. TA6 —

  14. TA6 — sounds like anatomy, atom, balmy, battery, catty

TI

  1. TI4 — to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; up to (a particular time); up to (a particular time); cultivate; farm sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill

  2. TI4 — the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle; to set or cause to be at an angle; as in gyroplane, convertiplane; angling; bend sounds like built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt

  3. TI5 — as in colored, hued; colored; colorized; dyed; hued sounds like linked

  4. TI4 — a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; to give color or a different color to; cast; color; hue sounds like hint, lint, mint, s**, taint

  5. TI5 — something that is unusually large and powerful; behemoth; blockbuster; colossus; dinosaur sounds like heighten, lighten

  6. TI7 — unusually large; astronomical; Brobdingnagian; bumper; colossal sounds like italic

alit, anti, antic, anticlimactic, atilt, attain, attic, cacti, cant, cantata, cantina, catcall, catmint, cattail, claimant, climactic, climatic, illicit, incant, initial, intact, italic, lactic, lantana, licit, lilt, limit, lint, maintain, malt, manta, militant, militia, militiaman, mint, mitt, natal, natant, tacit, tact, tactic, tactical, tactician, tail, taint, talc, tali, tall, tallit, tannic, tannin, tatami, till, tilt, tinct, tint, titan, titanic