NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 13 October, 2022

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

Letters: r  c  f  i  n  o  t

  • Total Answers: 45
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

CI

  1. CI5 — tendril; a slender usually flexible animal appendage or projection: such as; an arm of a barnacle sounds like—airy, brie, eerie, free, sari

  2. CI6 — a sequence of reactions in the living organism in which oxidation of acetic acid or acetyl equivalent provides energy for storage in phosphate bonds (as in ATP) —called also ** acid cycle, tricarboxylic acid cycle sounds like—cynic, cystic, lyric, metric, satiric

  3. CI6 — a citrus fruit resembling a lemon but larger with little pulp and a very thick rind; a small shrubby tree (Citrus medica) that produces **s and is cultivated in tropical regions; the preserved rind of the ** used especially in cakes and puddings

CO

  1. CO4 — a stiff coarse fiber from the outer husk of a coconut sounds like—car

  2. CO8 — to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage synonyms—beard, brave, brazen, breast, dare sounds like—affront, oceanfront

  3. CO7 — to twist (something) out of a natural or normal shape or condition synonyms—deform, distort, misshape, screw, squinch

  4. CO10 — the twisting of something out of its natural or normal shape or condition synonyms—deformation, distortion, misshaping, screwing, squinching

  5. CO10 — a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing synonyms—contriteness, guilt, penitence, regret, remorse sounds like—attrition

  6. CO4 — something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental synonyms—goo, mush, schmaltz, sludge, slush sounds like—a, born, chord

CR

  1. 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 synonyms—carper, castigator, caviler, censurer, **izer

  2. CR4 — **odile sounds like—brok, clock, cock

  3. CR5 — any of a genus (Crocus) of herbs of the iris family developing from corms and having solitary long-tubed flowers and slender linear leaves; saffron; a dark red ferric oxide used for polishing metals

  4. CR5 — to produce low, soft musical tones with the voice synonyms—belt, harmonize, hum, lilt, quaver sounds like—prune

FO

  1. FO4 — a structure or place from which one can resist attack synonyms—bastion, castle, citadel, fastness, **ification sounds like—court, fault

FR

  1. FR8 — a lack of agreement or harmony synonyms—conflict, disaccord, discord, discordance, discordancy sounds like—fiction

  2. FR5 — being at or in the part of something opposite the back part synonyms—anterior, fore, forward, *al, *ward sounds like—af*, aren't, brunt, errant, grunt

IN

  1. IN5 — a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part synonyms—exordium, foreword, *duction, preamble, preface sounds like—encroach, engross, entice, entire, entre

IR

  1. IR4 — as in sand, grit synonyms—backbone, fortitude, grit, pluck, sand sounds like—burn, burne, churn, durn, earn

  2. IR6 — marked by an often negative or mocking form of wit in which words are used to express something different to their literal meaning synonyms—cynical, dry, wry, brisk, cross sounds like—chronic, ionic

NI

  1. NI6 — a colorless poisonous gas NO formed by oxidation of nitrogen or ammonia that is present in the atmosphere and also in mammals where it is synthesized from arginine and oxygen and acts as a vasodilator and as a mediator of cell-to-cell communication (as between nerve cells) sounds like—citric

  2. NI5 — any of various nitrated products; specifically : *glycerin sounds like—gyro, knight, knightly, maestro, metro

NO

  1. NO4 — a dry red wine produced from the same grape as French burgundy sounds like—afar, ajar, are, bar, car

  2. NO4 — dried laver seaweed pressed into thin sheets and used especially as a seasoning or as a wrapper for sushi sounds like—gory, nary, naughty

RI

  1. RI5 — a poisonous protein in the castor bean sounds like—christen, listen, written

  2. RI4 — a distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play) synonyms—interpretation, take, variation sounds like—rear, reef

  3. RI4 — an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure; an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge) synonyms—check, chink, cleft, crack, cranny sounds like—d**, gift, lift, miffed, raft

  4. RI4 — someone or something that is very funny synonyms—hoot, knee-slapper, laugh, scream sounds like—diet, rut, write

RO

  1. RO6 — as in baroque, arabesque synonyms—arabesque, baroque, bedizened, florid, fussy sounds like—coco, cocoa

  2. RO4 — a raised covering over something for decoration or protection; the place where one lives synonyms—awning, canopy, ceiling, cover, tent sounds like—goof, hoof, poof, p**, reef

  3. RO4 — a point or place at which something is invented or provided; the source from which something grows or develops; an immaterial thing upon which something else rests synonyms—cradle, font, fountain, fountainhead, origin sounds like—boot, brute, chute, fruit, hoot

  4. RO4 — a round soft flat unleavened bread; also : such a bread wrapped around a filling and eaten as a sandwich sounds like—goatee, ratty, wrote

  5. RO6 — short, corkscrew-shaped pasta sounds like—protein

  6. RO5 — as in gyroplane, convertiplane; as in biplane, triplane synonyms—autogiro, convertiplane, gyroplane, rotary-wing aircraft, *craft sounds like—boater, motor, voter, writer

TO

  1. TO4 — sounds like—gory, story, talky, tarry, tawdry

  2. TO5 — of, relating to, or shaped like a torus or segment of a torus sounds like—trick

  3. TO5 — a Japanese gateway of light construction commonly built at the approach to a Shinto shrine sounds like—boring, corny, forage, foresee, gory

  4. TO4 — to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it; to separate or remove by forceful pulling; to proceed or move quickly synonyms—rent, ribboned, ripped, riven, shredded sounds like—born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn

  5. TO4 —

  6. TO4 — a wrongful act other than a breach of contract for which relief may be obtained in the form of damages or an injunction sounds like—court, fort, port, short, sort

  7. TO7 — ice cream made of heavy cream often with minced almonds and chopped maraschino cherries and often flavored with rum sounds like—corny, courtly, crony, hormone, martini

TR

  1. TR7 — as in kepi, homburg synonyms—baseball cap, beret, billycock, biretta, boater sounds like—stricken

  2. TR6 — a plain warp-knitted fabric (as of nylon, wool, rayon, silk, or cotton) with a close inelastic knit and used especially in clothing (such as underwear); a twilled clothing fabric of wool with fine warp ribs or of wool and cotton with fine weft ribs sounds like—cricket, ticket

  3. TR4 — a group of three synonyms—threesome, triad, trifecta, trinity, triple

  4. TR6 — a son of Poseidon described as a demigod of the sea with the lower part of his body like that of a fish; any of various large marine gastropod mollusks (family Ranellidae synonym Cymatiidae) with a heavy elongated conical shell; also : the shell sounds like—brighten, frighten, tighten, titan

  5. TR4 — a mean or ugly old woman; abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools synonyms—beldam, carline, crone, hag, hellcat sounds like—rot

cirri, citric, citron, coir, confront, contort, contortion, contrition, corn, critic, croc, croci, croon, fort, friction, front, intro, iron, ironic, nitric, nitro, noir, nori, ricin, riff, rift, riot, rococo, roof, root, roti, rotini, rotor, tori, toric, torii, torn, toro, tort, tortoni, tricorn, tricot, trio, triton, trot