Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 30 September, 2023

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

Letters: i  a  c  h  l  o  t

  • Total Answers: 61
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC6 β€” sounds like occasion
  2. AC4 β€” sounds like occur, sky

AI

  1. AI5 β€” sounds like holy, idly, lowly, wholly

AL

  1. AL9 β€” a person who makes a habit of getting drunk; as in bibulous, dipsomaniacal; alkie; boozehound; boozer sounds like workaholic
  2. AL4 β€” 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

AT

  1. AT5 β€” inclined or twisted to one side; askew; aslant; awry; cock-a-hoop sounds like stilt, tilt
  2. AT5 β€” 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 β€”
  2. CA6 β€” as in speckled, streaked; blotted; brindled; specked; speckled sounds like cluck
  3. CA8 β€” not limited or specialized in application or purpose; all-around; all-purpose; general; general-purpose sounds like chaotic, chronic, click, college, comic
  4. CA7 β€” sounds like curtail

CH

  1. CH4 β€” sounds like awry, buy, die, dye
  2. CH7 β€” lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness; a state in which everything is out of order; cluttered; confused; disarranged sounds like aquatic, caustic, comic, critic, erotic
  3. CH4 β€” sounds like keel, keen, keep, key, keyed
  4. 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
  5. CH5 β€”
  6. CH6 β€” as in extravagant, ostentatious; as in finery, froufrou; extravagant; exuberant; fancified
  7. CH5 β€” sounds like filly, hilly, lily, nilly, really
  8. CH5 β€” lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; uncomfortably cool; having a low or subnormal temperature; antiseptic; arctic sounds like bill, dill
  9. CH4 β€” as in sister, lass; bird; filly; lass; lassie sounds like bit, fit
  10. CH8 β€” friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this; backchat; cackle; causerie; chat sounds like begat, detach, detached, detect, detest
  11. CH10 β€” sounds like alcoholic, workaholic

CI

  1. CI4 β€” sounds like cheap, cheat, cheek, cheese, chief
  2. CI5 β€” sounds like psyllium, sillier, silly

CO

  1. CO5 β€” sounds like catty, caught, clot
  2. CO8 β€” sounds like curtail, whitetail
  3. CO5 β€” sounds like catchy
  4. CO4 β€” a state of noisy, confused activity; to follow a circular or spiral course; ado; alarums and excursions; ballyhoo sounds like boil, call, cul, cull, curl
  5. CO6 β€” sexual union involving penetration of the vagina by the penis; coition; commerce; congress; copulating sounds like cattle, kettle
  6. CO5 β€” as in cramps, gripes; cramps; gripes; bellyache; collywobbles sounds like click

HA

  1. HA4 β€” to declare enthusiastic approval of; to demand or request the presence or service of; a heavy fall of objects; acclaim; accredit sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

HI

  1. HI4 β€” a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; an area of high ground; an upward slope; cock; heap sounds like bill, c**, dill, fill, hail
  2. HI4 β€” as in shaft; with all power or resources being used; to a full extent or degree; shaft; bail sounds like built, gilt, guilt, halt, jilt
  3. 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

IL

  1. IL5 β€” sounds like black, bleak, clique, elite, flak
  2. IL7 β€” contrary to or forbidden by law; criminal; felonious; illegal; illegitimate sounds like elicit

IO

  1. IO4 β€” the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes; continental; damn sounds like aroma, beta, boa, boat, boater

IT

  1. IT6 β€” sounds like idyllic, metallic, static, titanic
  2. IT4 β€” sexual appetite; a strong wish for something; intense sexual desire; concupiscence; desire sounds like b, d, each, ear, etch

LA

  1. LA6 β€” sounds like tactic
  2. LA4 β€” as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like lick
  3. LA6 β€” as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like cul, cull, local, loyal, lull

LI

  1. LI5 β€” permitted by law; lawful; legal; legit; legitimate sounds like il*
  2. LI5 β€” sounds like black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack
  3. LI4 β€” 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
  4. LI6 β€” sounds like bitchy, itchy, leery
  5. LI5 β€” sounds like ditto

LO

  1. LO4 β€” a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; the area or space occupied by or intended for something; a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; axes; bases sounds like fussy, gussy, lacey, lacy, lucky

OI

  1. OI8 β€” sounds like cloth, loincloth, tablecloth

OL

  1. OL4 β€” an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; agglomerate; agglomeration; alphabet soup; assortment sounds like audio

TA

  1. TA5 β€” understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile
  2. TA6 β€” something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic
  3. TA8 β€” suitable for bringing about a desired result under the circumstances; advisable; desirable; expedient; judicious
  4. TA4 β€” 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
  5. TA8 β€” sounds like raincoat, sailboat
  6. TA4 β€” sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, toffee
  7. TA6 β€”

TI

  1. TI4 β€” up to (a particular time); to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on; up to (a particular time); until; up till sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
  2. TI4 β€” 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 β€” sounds like filth

TO

  1. TO4 β€” very hard or unpleasant work; something that catches and holds; to devote serious and sustained effort; donkeywork; drudge sounds like boil, coil, foil, oil, roil

acacia, acai, aioli, alcoholic, alit, atilt, attic, cacti, calico, catholic, cattail, chai, chaotic, chia, chic, chica, chichi, chili, chill, chit, chitchat, chocoholic, ciao, cilia, coati, coattail, cocci, coil, coital, colic, hail, hill, hilt, hitch, iliac, illicit, iota, italic, itch, lactic, laic, laical, licit, lilac, lilt, litchi, litho, loci, oilcloth, olio, tacit, tactic, tactical, tail, tailcoat, tali, tallit, till, tilt, tilth, toil