NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 3 October, 2023

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

Letters: i  c  d  l  t  u  y

  • Total Answers: 30
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CI

  1. CI4 — a thickly settled, highly populated area; a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers; a state that has its own government and consists of a city and the area around it; asphalt jungle; burg sounds like ditty, kitty, pity, silly, sit

CU

  1. CU6 — a group of people showing intense devotion to a cause, person, or work (as a film); a body of beliefs and practices regarding the supernatural and the worship of one or more deities; audience; followership; following sounds like caloric, caustic, chaotic, click, coloring

CY

  1. CY6 — happening again and again in the same order; alternate; intermittent; periodic; recurrent sounds like psychic

DI

  1. DI6 — the smallest amount or part imaginable; the smallest amount or part imaginable; the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes sounds like deadly, dearly

  2. DI4 — sounds like bill, chill, dale, deal, dear

  3. DI5 — something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like chili, chilly, daily, dally, dearly

  4. DI5 — a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment; as in shopping bag, garment bag; as in shopping bags, garment bags; ballad; jingle sounds like city, deter, duty, kitty, pity

DU

  1. DU9 — as in suppleness, pliability; capable of being bent or pulled into different shapes; pliability; pliableness; pliancy sounds like debility

IC

  1. IC5 — having a low or subnormal temperature; lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; algid; arctic; bitter sounds like acidly, easily, eerily, finally, gulley

ID

  1. ID4 — as in inactively; not being in a state of use, activity, or employment; not easily aroused to action or work; inactively; lifelessly sounds like oddly, widely

  2. ID4 — a time or instance of carefree fun; binge; fling; frisk; frolic sounds like addle, aisle, awhile, beguile, bile

  3. ID5 — a time or instance of carefree fun; binge; fling; frisk; frolic sounds like addle, dull, sidle, tidal

  4. ID7 — sounds like italic

IL

  1. IL7 — contrary to or forbidden by law; criminal; felonious; illegal; illegitimate sounds like elicit

  2. IL9 — contrary to or forbidden by law; criminal; felonious; illegal; illegitimate sounds like elicit

  3. IL4 — sounds like alley, chili, ch**, early, eerie

IT

  1. IT4 — very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy

LI

  1. LI5 — permitted by law; lawful; legal; legit; legitimate sounds like il*

  2. LI7 — permitted by law; lawful; legal; legit; legitimate sounds like il***, lastly, minutely

  3. LI4 — 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. LI4 — having or showing a shameful lack of courage; free from guilt or blame; chicken; chicken-livered; chickenhearted sounds like chili, chilly, filly, hilly, leery

LU

  1. LU5 — giving off or reflecting much light; having full use of one's mind and control over one's actions; not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation; beaming; bedazzling sounds like loosen

  2. LU8 — clearness of expression; clarity; explicitness; lucidness; perspicuity sounds like acidity, fluidity

  3. LU7 — giving off or reflecting much light; having full use of one's mind and control over one's actions; not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation; beaming; bedazzling sounds like acidly, loosely

TI

  1. TI6 — as in neatly, orderly; being clean and in good order; of a size greater than average of its kind; neatly; orderly sounds like bodily, busily, eerily, fiddle, middle

  2. TI4 — as in pick up, unclutter; being clean and in good order; of a size greater than average of its kind; pick up; straighten (up) sounds like teddy

  3. TI4 — 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

  4. TI4 — 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

TU

  1. TU5 — sounds like nutty, putty, touchy

UT

  1. UT7 — as in other, new; the capacity for being useful for some purpose; as in sports car, wagon; different; other sounds like f***

city, cultic, cyclic, diddly, dill, dilly, ditty, ductility, icily, idly, idyl, idyll, idyllic, illicit, illicitly, illy, itty, licit, licitly, lilt, lily, lucid, lucidity, lucidly, tidily, tidy, till, tilt, tutti, utility