Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: c a i n r t u
- Total Answers: 50
- Pangrams: 2
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AC
- AC6 — sounds like occasion
- AC4 — sounds like occur, sky
AN
- AN9 —
- AN5 — causing or intended to cause laughter; given to good-natured joking or teasing; a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke; chucklesome; comedic sounds like attic
AR
- AR6 —
- AR6 — having a low or subnormal temperature; lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; algid; bitter; bone-chilling
- AR6 — sounds like onyx
AT
- AT5 — a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building; as in refined, cultured; cockloft; garret; loft sounds like antic, stick, tick
- AT7 — to engage the attention of; draw; entice; interest; allure sounds like tracked, tract
- AT10 —
CA
- CA5 —
- CA5 — a small quantity of stones heaped together that usually marks a place; barrow; cock; heap; hill sounds like corn
- CA6 — sounds like common, concave, condom
- CA5 — sounds like manna
- CA4 — the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon; the pretending of having virtues, principles, or beliefs that one in fact does not have; the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field; diagonal; grade sounds like ant, aunt
- CA7 — as in hymn, anthem; anthem; canticle; carol; chorale
- CA7 — a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises; bar; barroom; café; dramshop
- CA5 — sounds like beret, ferret, merit, parrot
- CA4 — a wheeled usually horse-drawn vehicle used for hauling; to support and take from one place to another; as in buggy, phaeton; wagon; wain sounds like art, chart, cost, cot, court
- CA8 — a fall of water usually from a great height; a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; cascade; fall(s); waterfall sounds like counteract, interact
CI
- CI5 — not far from (something) in time; alongside; beside; about; around
- CI7 — as in compass, ambit; as in loop, circle; as in tour; ambit; compass sounds like socket, surfeit
- CI5 — sounds like airy, brie, eerie, free, sari
- CI6 — sounds like cynic, cystic, lyric, metric, satiric
CR
- CR6 — 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
- CR6 — a person given to harsh judgments and to finding faults; a person who makes or expresses a judgment on the quality of offerings in some field of endeavor; carper; castigator; caviler
CU
- CU7 — sounds like aren't, brunt, crunch, crushed, crust
- CU4 — being or characterized by direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or manner; marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning; abrupt; bluff; blunt sounds like cat, caught, coat, cot
- CU7 — something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth; pieces of cloth hung to darken, decorate, or divide a room; the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities; blanket; cloak sounds like certain, cotton, kitten
IN
- IN6 — sounds like can't, decant, enact, encamp, enchant
- IN5 — as in catch, contract; catch; contract; accept; court
- IN6 — not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it; compleat; complete; comprehensive; entire sounds like enact
NA
- NA4 — as in fed, plainclothesman; a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; fed; Federal; G-man sounds like arc, bark, dark, knock, lark
NI
- NI6 — sounds like basic, basin, casing, chasten, evasive
- NI6 — sounds like citric
RI
- RI5 — sounds like christen, listen, written
RU
- RU5 — a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect; lyric; poem; song; verse sounds like tunic
TA
- TA5 — understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile
- TA8 — tending not to speak frequently (as by habit or inclination); closemouthed; dumb; laconic; reserved sounds like acetone
- TA4 — the ability to deal with others in touchy situations without offending them; diplomacy; tactfulness sounds like act, backed, fact, packed, pact
- TA6 — something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic
- TA9 — sounds like technician
- TA6 — sounds like manic, panic, tonic, tunic
- TA7 — sounds like antic, gastric
TI
- TI5 — as in colored, hued; colored; colorized; dyed; hued sounds like linked
- TI7 — unusually large; astronomical; Brobdingnagian; bumper; colossal sounds like italic
TR
- TR5 — a broad geographical area; a small area of usually open land; a small piece of land that is developed or available for development; belt; corridor sounds like at*, cracked, tact
TU
- TU5 — sounds like tonic
UN
- UN5 — as in undiminished, unabridged; unabridged; undiminished; compleat; complete sounds like annuity, bucket, circuit, cut, docket
UR
- UR4 — sounds like attic, baroque, brick, career, chick