NYT π CluesβSun. 9 April, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: a c i m r t u
- Total Answers: 45
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AC
- AC6 β sounds like occasion
- AC4 β sounds like occur, sky
AR
- AR6 β having a low or subnormal temperature; lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; algid; bitter; bone-chilling
- AR4 β a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson
- AR4 β sounds like bum, chum, come, drum, dumb
AT
- AT5 β as in peristyles, gallerias; gallerias; parvises; peristyles; closes sounds like area, aria, outreach, streak, stream
- AT6 β as in peristyle, galleria; galleria; parvis; peristyle; close sounds like barium, patriot, stream
- AT5 β a sweet or pleasant smell; aroma; balm; bouquet; fragrance sounds like butter, cutter, eater, gutter, mutter
- 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
- AT7 β to engage the attention of; draw; entice; interest; allure sounds like tracked, tract
AU
- AU4 β a special quality or impression associated with something; a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings; air; ambience; aroma sounds like era, oral, orb, ore
CA
- CA5 β
- CA4 β sounds like balmy, cocky, coffee, collie, comma
- CA5 β sounds like beret, ferret, merit, parrot
- CA4 β 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 β 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 β not far from (something) in time; alongside; beside; about; around
CR
- CR4 β a great number of persons or things massed together; to fit (people or things) into a tight space; to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained; army; bike sounds like chrome, clam
IM
- IM4 β sounds like mom
MA
- MA4 β to cause severe or permanent injury to; cripple; disable; incapacitate; lame sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game
- MA4 β a female human parent; as in boy, kid; as in boys, kids; ma; mammy sounds like comma, mom
- MA5 β a female human parent; ma; mammy; mater; mom sounds like comma, mom
- MA6 β
- MA4 β sounds like arm, charm, farm, harm
- MA4 β as in department store, mini-mart; as in department store, chain store; boutique; chain store; department store sounds like art, cart, chart, dart, heart
MI
- MI4 β sounds like mecca
RA
- RA5 β sounds like beta
- RA7 β sounds like habitat
TA
- TA5 β understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile
- TA4 β the ability to deal with others in touchy situations without offending them; diplomacy; tactfulness sounds like act, backed, fact, packed, pact
- TA6 β something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic
- TA6 β sounds like tomorrow
- TA6 β sounds like track
- TA4 β causing or characterized by the one of the basic taste sensations that is produced chiefly by acids; marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings; a woman who engages in sexual activities for money; acid; acidic sounds like art, cart, chart, dart, heart
- TA6 β sounds like barter, charter, garter, martyr, starter
- TA6 β sounds like anatomy, atom, balmy, battery, catty
- TA4 β stretched with little or no give; rigid; tense; tight sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat
TI
- TI5 β as in anadem; anadem; chaplet; coronal; coronet sounds like rearm, tar, tarred, tart, zebra
TR
- TR5 β 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
- TR5 β something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind; affection; attribute; attribution; character sounds like crate, freight, grate, great, irate
- TR4 β as in truck, wheelbarrow; barrow; hand truck; pushcart; truck sounds like cram, dram, gram, ram, tam
- TR7 β
- TR6 β sounds like drama, prima
- TR9 β causing great and lasting pain or distress; alarming; disturbing; perturbing; unsettling sounds like aromatic, dramatic, rheumatic
UM
- UM5 β sounds like balmy, commie, eulogy, mama, mom