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NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 10 December, 2022

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

Letters: y  a  c  i  n  r  t

  • Total Answers: 32
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! đŸ€Ł

AI

  1. AI4 — resembling air in lightness; open to the free circulation of air; located at a greater height than average or usual synonyms—ethereal, fluffy, gossamer, gossamery, light sounds like—any, area, berry, brie, bury

AR

  1. AR5 — a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; dressy clothing synonyms—assemblage, band, bank, batch, battery sounds like—awry, bay, day, earl, earn
  2. AR4 — artillery sounds like—he, p

CA

  1. CA6 — a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing synonyms—betrayer, deep throat, fink, informant, informer sounds like—country
  2. CA5 — having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment; enjoying physical comfort synonyms—astute, clear-eyed, clear-sighted, hard-boiled, hardheaded sounds like—cranny, fanny
  3. CA5 — carnival; a person who works with a carnival sounds like—corny
  4. CA5 — 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 synonyms—bear, cart, convey, ferry, haul sounds like—curry
  5. CA5 — having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it synonyms—bad, bitchy, cruel, despiteful, hateful sounds like—chatty, fatty, kitty, natty, patty

CI

  1. CI4 — a thickly settled, highly populated area synonyms—asphalt jungle, burg, cosmopolis, mega**, megalopolis sounds like—ditty, kitty, pity, silly, sit

CR

  1. CR6 — an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure synonyms—check, chink, cleft, crack, crevice sounds like—canny

CY

  1. CY4 — a greenish-blue color —used in photography and color printing of one of the primary colors sounds like—ion, lion, science, sign, sine
  2. CY5 — a person who distrusts other people and believes that everything is done for selfish reasons synonyms—misanthrope, naysayer, pessimist sounds like—civic, scenic, sinning, sonic

IN

  1. IN7 — a foolish act or idea; lack of good sense or judgment synonyms—absurdity, asininity, bĂȘtise, fatuity, folly
  2. IN9 — something that makes a situation more complicated or difficult; the state or quality of having many interrelated parts or aspects synonyms—complexity, complicacy, complication, convolution, difficulty

IT

  1. IT4 — very small in size synonyms—atomic, bitsy, b, infinitesimal, little b sounds like—city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy

NA

  1. NA5 — a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children synonyms—babysitter, dry nurse, nurse, nursemaid, nurser sounds like—canny, fanny
  2. NA4 — not any : not one sounds like—airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
  3. NA5 — being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance synonyms—dapper, sharp, smart, snappy, spruce sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, knotty, nutty

NI

  1. NI5 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a stupid person synonyms—berk, booby, charlie, cuckoo, ding-a-ling sounds like—guinea, nanny, tinny

RA

  1. RA4 — having much high-spirited energy and movement; hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent synonyms—active, airy, animate, animated, bouncing sounds like—lacey, lacy
  2. RA5 — marked by or abounding with rain synonyms—pouring, precipitating, stormy, wet sounds like—b*, g*, reign, rein, zany
  3. RA6 — something strange or unusual that is an object of interest; something that is different from what is ordinary or expected synonyms—curio, curiosity, exotic, objet d'art, oddity sounds like—parity, verity
  4. RA5 — showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; worn or torn into or as if into rags; easily irritated or annoyed synonyms—beat-up, bombed-out, dilapidated, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

TA

  1. TA5 — a temporary residing as another's guest synonyms—sojourn, stay, visit sounds like—airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
  2. TA5 — showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect synonyms—beat-up, bombed-out, dilapidated, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

TI

  1. TI5 — as in thin, peeping synonyms—peeping, thin, high-pitched, piping, screeching sounds like—guinea, tony, tourney
  2. TI4 — very small in size synonyms—atomic, bitsy, bitty, infinitesimal, itty-bitty sounds like—shiny, tony, tourney

TR

  1. TR4 — as in plate, bowl synonyms—bowl, casserole, charger, cup, plate sounds like—fray, gray, grey, pray, prey
  2. TR7 — a group of three synonyms—threesome, triad, trifecta, trio, triple sounds like—affinity, rickety

TY

  1. TY7 — a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power synonyms—absolutism, autarchy, authoritarianism, autocracy, Caesarism sounds like—eerily, irony, litany, tearfully, timpani
  2. TY6 — a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way synonyms—caesar, despot, dictator, fĂŒhrer, oppressor sounds like—torrent

YA

  1. YA4 — a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally; a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel synonyms—anecdote, story, tale, narrative, novelette sounds like—barn, darn

airy, array, arty, canary, canny, carny, carry, catty, city, cranny, cyan, cynic, inanity, intricacy, itty, nanny, nary, natty, ninny, racy, rainy, rarity, ratty, tarry, tatty, tinny, tiny, tray, trinity, tyranny, tyrant, yarn