NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 14 January, 2023

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

Letters: d  a  c  g  i  n  r

  • Total Answers: 61
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

  1. AC4 — causing or characterized by one of the four basic taste sensations 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

  2. AC6 — 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

  3. AC5 — 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

AD

  1. AD6 — to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; to combine (numbers) into a single sum; to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; adjoining; annexing sounds like budding

AI

  1. AI6 — as in helping; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; helping; computerized sounds like dang, dear, deer, dick, did

AR

  1. AR7 — as in Eden, Camelot; Camelot; Cockaigne; Eden; Elysium

  2. AR8 — free from disturbing noise or uproar; calm; hushed; peaceful; placid sounds like guardian, radial, radiance, radiant, radiate

  3. AR4 — causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; marked by little or no precipitation or humidity; boring; colorless; drab sounds like acid, added, avid

CA

  1. CA7 — to persuade someone to give you (something) for free; to persuade someone to give you (something) for free; bludging; mooching; sponging sounds like aging, bashing

  2. CA6 — a rumor or report of a personal or sensational nature; story; tale; whisper sounds like concede, confide, country, regard, unarmed

  3. CA6 — free in expressing one's true feelings and opinions; marked by justice, honesty, and freedom from bias; direct; forthcoming; forthright

  4. CA5 — sounds like conned

  5. CA4 — 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

  6. CA7 — sounds like crack, creak, creek, guardian, hardier

  7. CA8 — sounds like audition, bargain, christen, collagen, condition

  8. CA7 — as in noting, filing; as in combing, raking; booking; filing; noting

CI

  1. CI6 — sounds like acacia, arcade, became, decade, decayed

  2. CI9 — sounds like meridian, stadium

DA

  1. DA7 — to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music; to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements; to perform a series of usually rhythmic bodily movements to music; footing (it); hoofing (it) sounds like advancing, dining, dressing, fencing, gassing

  2. DA4 — deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure; to a great degree; as in dash, darn; accursed; blasted sounds like bang, dung, fang, gang, hang

  3. DA6 — inclined or willing to take risks; strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger; to invite (someone) to take part in a contest or to perform a feat; adventuresome; adventurous sounds like bearing, caring, chairing, derrick, during

  4. DA4 — the smallest amount or part imaginable; to close up with a series of interlacing stitches; deserving of one's condemnation or displeasure; beans; bubkes sounds like barn, don, yarn

  5. DA7 — as in sewing, mending; to close up with a series of interlacing stitches; to close up with a series of interlacing stitches; closing; filling

DI

  1. DI6 — to cut into small pieces; to cut into small pieces; chopping; hashing; mincing sounds like missing

  2. DI7 — to hollow out or form (something) by removing earth; to take pleasure in; to have a clear idea of; excavating; shoveling sounds like rigging

  3. DI5 — sounds like defer, demur, deny, deter

  4. DI4 — as in clang, clink; as in dent, dint; a person who lacks good sense or judgment; chink; clang sounds like dang, dear, deer

  5. DI7 — as in clanging, clinking; as in denting, dinting; chinking; clanging; clanking sounds like ginning, inning, sinning, winning

  6. DI6 — to take a meal; to entertain with a fancy meal; to take a meal; eating; faring sounds like dyeing, dying, fining, shining

DR

  1. DR4 — to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to move or act slowly; to move slowly; draw; hale sounds like brag, rag

  2. DR8 — moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed; to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to move or act slowly; crawling; creeping sounds like cracking, dashing, flagging

  3. DR5 — to remove (liquid) gradually or completely; to make complete use of; to use up all the physical energy of; bleed; draft sounds like brain, crane, grain, rain, reign

  4. DR8 — as in exhausting, fatiguing; to remove (liquid) gradually or completely; to make complete use of; enervating; exhausting sounds like training

GA

  1. GA7 — to move about from place to place aimlessly; bat; cruise; drift; float sounds like guiding, padding

GI

  1. GI4 — an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings; to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt; to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity; affront; barb sounds like bird, curd, goad, god, good

  2. GI7 — to encircle or bind with or as if with a belt; to provide (someone) with what is needed for a task or activity; to form a circle around; banding; begirding sounds like guiding, wording

GR

  1. GR4 — an individual part of a process, series, or ranking; degree of excellence; one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic; chapter; cut sounds like brad, glad

  2. GR7 — to arrange or assign according to type; to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes; to arrange or assign according to type; assorting; breaking down

  3. GR5 — large and impressive in size, grandeur, extent, or conception; coming before all others in importance; not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it; august; baronial sounds like brand, gland

  4. GR7 — sounds like branded

  5. GR8 — sounds like branded

  6. GR4 —

  7. GR5 — a harsh grating sound; a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits; very hard or unpleasant work; creak; jar sounds like rind

  8. GR8 — as in rough, abrasive; to make smooth by friction; to press or strike against or together so as to make a scraping sound; abrasive; cacophonous sounds like binding, blinding, guiding, riding, winding

IN

  1. IN6 — sounds like syndicate

  2. IN7 —

NA

  1. NA4 — sounds like nod

  2. NA5 — the lowest point or level; the lowest part, place, or point; bedrock; bottom; depth sounds like neighbor, raider

  3. NA5 — a mythical goddess represented as a young girl and said to live outdoors; a young wingless often wormlike form (as a grub or caterpillar) that hatches from the egg of many insects; dryad; hamadryad; nymph sounds like acid, added, arid, avid, blood

RA

  1. RA5 —

  2. RA6 —

  3. RA5 — as in diameters; diameters; equators; perimeters; peripheries sounds like audio, bodied, body, oddly, readied

  4. RA4 — a sudden attack on and entrance into hostile territory; the act or action of setting upon with force or violence; to enter for conquest or plunder; descent; foray sounds like aid, aide, bade, b**, fade

  5. RA7 — as in looting, pillaging; to enter for conquest or plunder; to take sudden, violent action against; depredation; despoilment sounds like fading, reading, riding, rodding, shading

  6. RA6 — causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment; abhorrent; abominable; appalling; awful sounds like branded, rinsing

  7. RA4 — sounds like and, band, b, canned, g

RI

  1. RI7 — to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers; to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumbers; clearing; disburdening; disencumbering sounds like rowing, wring

  2. RI7 — as in drifting, banking; banking; drifting; agglutinating; clumping sounds like b***, raging

  3. RI6 — to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; to make fun of in a good-natured way; to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air; baiting; hassling sounds like guiding, reading, rodding, writhing

  4. RI5 — not allowing for any exceptions or loosening of standards; given to exacting standards of discipline and self-restraint; having a consistency that does not easily yield to pressure; brassbound; cast-iron sounds like f*

  5. RI4 — sounds like bind, find, g**, hind, kind

acid, acidic, acrid, adding, aiding, arcadia, arcadian, arid, cadging, canard, candid, canid, card, cardiac, cardigan, carding, cicada, circadian, dancing, dang, daring, darn, darning, dicing, digging, dinar, ding, dinging, dining, drag, dragging, drain, draining, gadding, gird, girding, grad, grading, grand, grandad, granddad, grid, grind, grinding, indica, indicia, nada, nadir, naiad, radar, radian, radii, raid, raiding, rancid, rand, ridding, ridging, riding, rigid, rind