NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 8 January, 2023

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

Letters: a  c  d  i  j  l  u

  • Total Answers: 23
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

  1. AC6 — gum arabic; any of a large genus (**) of leguminous shrubs and trees of warm regions with leaves pinnate or reduced to phyllodes and white or yellow flower clusters sounds like—occasion

  2. AC4 — a small, dark purple, berrylike fruit with a juicy pulp that is often used in beverages or eaten raw and that is produced by a tall, slender palm (Euterpe oleracea) native to tropical rain forests of Central and South America; the palm (Euterpe oleracea) that produces berries; a beverage made from the juice of the berry sounds like—occur, sky

  3. AC4 — causing or characterized by the one of the four basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by s; having or showing a habitually bad temper; marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings synonyms—ic, **ulous, sour, sourish, tart sounds like—added, arid, avid

  4. 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 synonyms—acid, acidulous, sour, sourish, tart sounds like—ascetic, civic, cynic, pacific

CA

  1. CA7 — the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value synonyms—arithmetics, calculations, computations, figures, mathematics

  2. CA4 — to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone ** to; to make a brief visit synonyms—bawl, bay, bellow, cry, holler sounds like—all, ball, bawl, coal, cog

  3. CA5 — to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit synonyms—bawl, bay, bellow, cry, holler sounds like—cola, gala

  4. CA6 — of, relating to, or being a tail; directed toward or situated in or near the tail or posterior part of the body sounds like—choral, coddle, coral, cuddle, dawdle

  5. CA4 — the large fatty omentum covering the intestines (as of a cow, sheep, or pig); the inner fetal membrane of higher vertebrates especially when covering the head at birth sounds like—coal, cock, cod, coil, collar

CI

  1. CI6 — any of a family (Cicadidae) of homopterous insects which have a stout body, wide blunt head, and large transparent wings and the males of which produce a loud buzzing noise usually by stridulation sounds like—acacia, arcade, became, decade, decayed

  2. CI5 — a minute short hairlike process often forming part of a fringe; especially : one on a cell that is capable of lashing movement and serves especially in free unicellular organisms to produce locomotion or in higher forms a current of fluid; eyelash sounds like—psyllium, sillier, silly

CL

  1. CL4 — to cover with something that protects synonyms—face, sheathe sounds like—glad, lad, plaid

DI

  1. DI4 — to make a telephone call to synonyms—call, phone, ring (up), telephone sounds like—dowel, dual, duel, dull, vial

DU

  1. DU4 — consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined synonyms—binary, bipartite, double, double-barreled, double-edged sounds like—dial, dowel, jewel

IL

  1. IL5 — of, relating to, or located on or near the ilium sounds like—black, bleak, clique, elite, flak

JA

  1. JA4 — a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody synonyms—bastille, big house, bridewell, brig, calaboose sounds like—ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

JU

  1. JU8 — having a partly ** character by possession of the right to hold hearings on and conduct investigations into disputed claims and alleged infractions of rules and regulations and to make decisions in the general manner of courts; essentially ** in character but not within the ** power or function especially as constitutionally defined

LA

  1. LA4 — as in lay, nonclerical synonyms—lay, nonclerical, atheistic, godless, irreligious sounds like—lick

  2. LA6 — as in lay, nonclerical synonyms—lay, nonclerical, atheistic, godless, irreligious sounds like—cul, cull, local, loyal, lull

  3. LA4 — to arrange something in a certain spot or position; to cause to come to rest at the bottom (as of a liquid); to establish or apply as a charge or penalty synonyms—deposed, deposited, disposed, emplaced, fixed sounds like—aid, aide, bade, blade, fade

  4. LA4 — public acknowledgment or admiration for an achievement synonyms—acclaim, accolade, applause, bay(s), credit sounds like—awed, flawed, lead, led, lewd

LI

  1. LI5 — a widely cultivated European shrub (Syringa vulgaris) of the olive family that has cordate ovate leaves and large panicles of fragrant pinkish-purple or white flowers; a tree or shrub congeneric with the *; a variable color averaging a moderate purple sounds like—black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack

LU

  1. LU4 — as in barbecue, cookout synonyms—barbecue, clambake, cookout, fry, roast sounds like—lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose

acacia, acai, acid, acidic, calculi, call, calla, caudal, caul, cicada, cilia, clad, dial, dual, iliac, jail, judicial, laic, laical, laid, laud, lilac, luau