Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 21 January, 2023

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

Letters: r  a  c  d  h  i  n

  • Total Answers: 42
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC5 β€” having a foul smelling property: ***** fumes. sounds like arid

AN

  1. AN8 β€” not restrained by or under the control of legal authority; disorderly; lawbreaking; lawless; unruly sounds like archaic, arctic, garlic, narco, narcotic

AR

  1. AR8 β€” sounds like hackneyed, ragged, rapid
  2. AR7 β€” as in Eden, Camelot; Camelot; Cockaigne; Eden; Elysium
  3. AR8 β€” free from disturbing noise or uproar; calm; hushed; peaceful; placid sounds like guardian, radial, radiance, radiant, radiate
  4. AR6 β€”
  5. 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
  6. AR7 β€” having passed its time of use or usefulness; antiquated; dated; dΓ©modΓ©; demoded
  7. AR4 β€” a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson
  8. AR4 β€” causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; marked by little or no precipitation or humidity; boring; colorless; drab sounds like acid, added, avid
  9. AR6 β€” sounds like onyx

CA

  1. CA5 β€” a small quantity of stones heaped together that usually marks a place; barrow; cock; heap; hill sounds like corn
  2. CA6 β€” French word for duck. sounds like concede, confide, country, regard, unarmed
  3. CA4 β€” 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
  4. CA7 β€” Of or relating to the heart. sounds like crack, creak, creek, guardian, hardier

CH

  1. CH5 β€” a person in charge of a meeting; the place of leadership or command; chairman; chairperson; moderator sounds like air, bare, bear, care
  2. CH4 β€” a female domestic servant; to burn on the surface; as in charge, errand; biddy; charwoman sounds like are, bar, car
  3. CH5 β€”

CI

  1. CI5 β€” not far from (something) in time; alongside; beside; about; around
  2. CI9 β€” sounds like meridian, stadium
  3. CI5 β€” sounds like airy, brie, eerie, free, sari

CR

  1. 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

DA

  1. DA4 β€” An expletive: gosh *** it. sounds like barn, don, yarn

DI

  1. DI5 β€” Official currency of Kuwait. sounds like defer, demur, deny, deter

DR

  1. DR5 β€” To diminish, exhaust, or deplete. sounds like brain, crane, grain, rain, reign

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. HA4 β€” having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings; requiring considerable physical or mental effort; able to withstand hardship, strain, or exposure; affectless; callous sounds like bard, card, charred, guard, heart
  3. HA8 β€” a bad-tempered scolding woman; battle-ax; dragon lady; fury; harpy sounds like hidden, huddle

NA

  1. NA5 β€” The lowest point; opposite of zenith. sounds like neighbor, raider
  2. 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

RA

  1. RA5 β€” Bats and submarines use this to locate things.
  2. RA6 β€” In geometry, an alternative unit to the degree.
  3. RA5 β€” Plural form of the math term that's equivalent to: one half of the diameter. sounds like audio, bodied, body, oddly, readied
  4. RA4 β€” A thing commonly done in the dead of night by law enforcement. sounds like aid, aide, bade, b**, fade
  5. RA4 β€” a steady falling of water from the sky in significant quantity; a heavy fall of objects; to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds; cloudburst; deluge sounds like arraign, bane, b**, cane, chain
  6. RA5 β€” a piece of land and its buildings used to grow crops or raise livestock; as in ranch, town house; as in ranches, town houses; estate; farm sounds like b*, wrench
  7. RA6 β€” A way to describe meat that's gone bad. sounds like branded, rinsing
  8. RA4 β€” Currency of South Africa; also the first name of a US Senator from the state of Kentucky. sounds like and, band, b, canned, g
  9. RA4 β€” sounds like rocky

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
  2. RI5 β€” sounds like christen, listen, written
  3. RI4 β€” Tough outerpart of certain fruit, like watermelon. sounds like bind, find, g**, hind, kind

acrid, anarchic, arachnid, arcadia, arcadian, arcana, arch, archaic, aria, arid, arnica, cairn, canard, card, cardiac, chair, char, chard, circa, circadian, cirri, crania, darn, dinar, drain, hair, hard, harridan, nadir, narc, radar, radian, radii, raid, rain, ranch, rancid, rand, rani, rich, ricin, rind