Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 21 June, 2023

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

Letters: c  a  o  r  t  u  y

  • Total Answers: 41
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC8 β€” the quality or state of being very accurate; accurateness; closeness; delicacy; exactitude sounds like in**
  2. AC5 β€” one who acts professionally (as in a play, movie, or television show); one who takes part in something; impersonator; mummer; player sounds like after, aster, f*
  3. AC7 β€” sounds like estuary, sanctuary
  4. AC8 β€” as in control, lever; button; dial; key; knob sounds like agitator, alligator, allocator, cater, crater

AR

  1. AR4 β€” sounds like n**

AT

  1. AT7 β€” to engage the attention of; draw; entice; interest; allure sounds like tracked, tract
  2. AT9 β€” sounds like tractor

AU

  1. AU9 β€” a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power; absolutism; autarchy; authoritarianism; Caesarism sounds like theocracy
  2. AU8 β€” one who rules over a people with a sole, supreme, and usually hereditary authority; monarch; potentate; ruler; sovereign

CA

  1. CA5 β€” sounds like cocaine, coco, cocoa, cocoon, cuckoo
  2. CA5 β€” sounds like beret, ferret, merit, parrot
  3. CA6 β€”
  4. CA5 β€” to support and take from one place to another; to wear or have on one's person; to bring before the public in performance or exhibition; bear; cart sounds like curry
  5. CA8 β€” to carry through (as a process) to completion; accomplish; achieve; bring off; carry off sounds like chariot, create, kraut
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. CA5 β€” having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering for the sheer enjoyment of it; in a line or direction running from corner to corner; bad; bitchy; cruel sounds like chatty, fatty, kitty, natty, patty

CO

  1. CO4 β€” the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick; to form a layer over; a special group of pictures that belong to a person, family, or group of people and that are shown on a shield; fleece; fur sounds like boat, cat, caught
  2. CO4 β€”
  3. CO5 β€”
  4. CO4 β€” as in geezer; geezer; bohemian; maverick; nonconformist sounds like boot, cat, caught, chute
  5. CO5 β€” the residence of a ruler; an open space wholly or partly enclosed (as by buildings or walls); an assembly of persons for the administration of justice; palace; close sounds like cart, chord, fort, port

CR

  1. CR4 β€” sounds like brok, clock, cock

CU

  1. CU7 β€” sounds like crux
  2. CU6 β€” sounds like ac**, courtesy
  3. CU7 β€” a person who is in charge of the things in a museum, zoo, etc.; cocurator; caretaker; custodian; guardian sounds like crater
  4. CU5 β€” to strike repeatedly; to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior; bash; baste; bat sounds like carry
  5. CU4 β€” 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
  6. CU6 β€” to stop functioning; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; to leave a place often for another; break; break down sounds like shutout

OC

  1. OC5 β€” to take place; to enter the mind of; to occur or exist at the same time; be; befall sounds like acre, other, succor, sucker, upper

OR

  1. OR4 β€” sounds like aura

OU

  1. OU6 β€” a violent shouting; clamor; howl; hubbub; hue and cry sounds like cry, decry, try

RA

  1. RA4 β€” having much high-spirited energy and movement; hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent; active; airy; animate sounds like lacey, lacy

RO

  1. RO6 β€” as in baroque, arabesque; arabesque; baroque; bedizened; florid sounds like coco, cocoa

TA

  1. TA4 β€” sounds like borrow, box, capo, chalk, cock
  2. TA4 β€” the ability to deal with others in touchy situations without offending them; diplomacy; tactfulness sounds like act, backed, fact, packed, pact

TO

  1. TO7 β€” sounds like boycott, caught, cockatoo, comma, cot

TR

  1. 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
  2. TR7 β€” as in aircraft, ship; aerodyne; aircraft; air-cushion vehicle; airframe

YU

  1. YU4 β€” sounds like bouquet, coca, duke, kook, mecca
  2. YU5 β€” sounds like bouquet, coca, duke, kook, mecca

accuracy, actor, actuary, actuator, arco, attract, attractor, autocracy, autocrat, cacao, carat, carrot, carry, carryout, cart, cataract, catty, coat, coca, cocoa, coot, court, croc, curacao, curacy, curator, curry, curt, cutout, occur, orca, outcry, racy, rococo, taco, tact, toccata, tract, tractor, yuca, yucca