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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 20 May, 2023

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

Letters: h  a  c  i  r  t  u

  • Total Answers: 38
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AR

  1. AR4 β€” coming before all others in importance; displaying or marked by rude boldness; tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness; big; capital sounds like m, p
  2. AR7 β€” having passed its time of use or usefulness; antiquated; dated; dΓ©modΓ©; demoded
  3. AR5 β€” sounds like brat, hat, rat
  4. AR9 β€” as in rheumatic; rheumatic; compact; dense; substantial sounds like critic

AT

  1. AT6 β€” to cause (something) to hold to another; to pick (someone) by one's authority for a specific position or duty; to take ownership or control of (something) by right of one's authority; affix; bend

CA

  1. CA7 β€” sounds like couture, guitar, star
  2. CA5 β€” to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly; to become affected with (a disease or disorder); to bring (something) to a standstill; bag; capture sounds like batch
  3. CA9 β€” bringing about a relief from strong emotions usually by expressing them; a substance used to induce or speed up the process of defecation; cleansing; purificatory; purifying sounds like lethargic

CH

  1. CH4 β€” sounds like awry, buy, die, dye
  2. CH5 β€” a person in charge of a meeting; the place of leadership or command; chairman; chairperson; moderator sounds like air, bare, bear, care
  3. CH4 β€” a female domestic servant; to burn on the surface; as in charge, errand; biddy; charwoman sounds like are, bar, car
  4. CH5 β€” an illustration of certain features of a geographical area; to give an oral or written account of in some detail; to work out the details of (something) in advance; map; chronicle sounds like art, cart, dart
  5. CH4 β€” friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this; talking or a talk between two or more people; to engage in casual or rambling conversation; backchat; cackle sounds like bat, cat, fat
  6. CH4 β€” sounds like keel, keen, keep, key, keyed
  7. CH4 β€” being in the latest or current fashion; a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time; Γ  la mode; au courant; cool sounds like beak, eke, geek, leak, meek
  8. CH5 β€”
  9. CH6 β€” as in extravagant, ostentatious; as in finery, froufrou; extravagant; exuberant; fancified
  10. CH9 β€” sounds like cahoot, macabre, pajama, regatta, sonata
  11. CH4 β€” as in sister, lass; bird; filly; lass; lassie sounds like bit, fit
  12. CH8 β€” friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this; backchat; cackle; causerie; chat sounds like begat, detach, detached, detect, detest
  13. CH6 β€” a building for public worship and especially Christian worship; a body of persons gathered for religious worship; the group ordained to perform clerical functions in the Christian church; kirk; tabernacle sounds like birch, lurch, perch, search

CR

  1. CR6 β€” as in prop, stay; bolsterer; handmaiden; prop; stay sounds like clutch

HA

  1. HA4 β€” a very small distance or degree; a thin, flexible structure that resembles a hair; the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick; ace; hairbreadth sounds like air, bare, bear, care, c**
  2. HA7 β€” a style or arrangement of hair; coiffure; cut; do; hairdo sounds like beret, carat, chariot, ferret, heckle
  3. HA4 β€” sounds like art, cart, c**, dart, hearth
  4. HA5 β€” a barrier by which an entry is closed and opened; to cover and warm eggs as the young inside develop; as in release, escape; door; gate sounds like batch, catch
  5. HA4 β€” sounds like bath
  6. HA5 β€” sounds like bath, gala, gamma

HI

  1. HI5 β€” a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized; a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position; to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion; booby trap; catch sounds like bitch, ditch, hatch, hear, here

HU

  1. HU6 β€” as in hail, huzzah; how delightful; bravo; hail; hallelujah sounds like boor, bra, hair, hairy, hard
  2. HU4 β€” to feel or cause physical pain; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; to cause bodily damage to; ache; pain sounds like curt, dirt, hat, hate, heard
  3. HU5 β€” a small, simply constructed, and often temporary dwelling; a storage case typically having doors and shelves; an enclosure with an open framework for keeping animals; cabin; camp sounds like hatch, hitch, hooch

IT

  1. IT4 β€” sexual appetite; a strong wish for something; intense sexual desire; concupiscence; desire sounds like b, d, each, ear, etch

RI

  1. RI4 β€” having goods, property, or money in abundance; containing much seasoning, fat, or sugar; having an abundance of some characteristic quality (as flavor); affluent; deep-pocketed sounds like bitch, ditch, hitch, itch, niche

TA

  1. TA4 β€” sounds like at**, batch, catch, hatch, latch

TH

  1. TH4 β€” as in other, far; to a great degree; to the degree that; far; farther sounds like bat, cat, chat, fat, hat
  2. TH6 β€” sounds like batch, catch, hatch, latch, match

TR

  1. TR5 β€” agreement with fact or reality; a statement that is only partly true and that is intended to deceive people; to tell the truth; facticity; factuality sounds like tooth

arch, archaic, arhat, arthritic, attach, catarrh, catch, cathartic, chai, chair, char, chart, chat, chia, chic, chica, chichi, chihuahua, chit, chitchat, church, crutch, hair, haircut, hart, hatch, hath, hatha, hitch, hurrah, hurt, hutch, itch, rich, tach, that, thatch, truth