Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: c a i l n p t
- Total Answers: 55
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣
AC
- AC6 — sounds like occasion
- AC4 — sounds like occur, sky
AL
- AL6 — sounds like aspect, bloc, block, blocked, blocker
AN
- AN5 — causing or intended to cause laughter; given to good-natured joking or teasing; a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke; chucklesome; comedic sounds like attic
- AN10 — having or showing signs of eagerly awaiting something; agape; agog; anticipatory; expectant
AP
- AP9 — one who seeks an office, honor, position, or award; applier; aspirant; campaigner; candidate sounds like affluent, diligent, flippant, picket, piquant
AT
- AT5 — a room or unfinished space directly beneath the roof of a building; as in refined, cultured; cockloft; garret; loft sounds like antic, stick, tick
CA
- CA5 —
- CA4 — to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like all, ball, bawl, coal, cog
- CA5 — to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like cola, gala
- CA5 — an open man-made passageway for water; aqueduct; channel; conduit; course sounds like banal, colonel, conceal, concur, confer
- CA6 — sounds like common, concave, condom
- CA5 — sounds like manna
- CA4 — the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon; the pretending of having virtues, principles, or beliefs that one in fact does not have; the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field; diagonal; grade sounds like ant, aunt
- CA7 — as in hymn, anthem; anthem; canticle; carol; chorale
- CA7 — a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises; bar; barroom; café; dramshop
- CA7 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; the total of one's money and property; coming before all others in importance; axis; base
- CA7 — a person in overall command of a ship; one in official command especially of a military force or base; the person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do; commander; skip
- CA7 —
- CA7 — a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; as in deride, jeer; bird; boo; Bronx cheer
- CA6 — a short sleep; to be in a state of sleep; to sleep lightly or briefly; doze; drowse sounds like kidnap
- CA6 —
- CA7 — sounds like curtail
CI
- CI5 — sounds like psyllium, sillier, silly
CL
- CL4 — a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially; a group of persons who come from the same ancestor; body; bunch; circle sounds like can
- CL4 — a loud explosive sound; a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; bang; blast sounds like cap
- CL6 — a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured; an intensive educational or training program; hospital; infirmary; medical center sounds like chronic
- CL8 — having or showing a lack of emotion or interest; dispassionate; objective; impersonal; professional sounds like pinnacle
- CL9 — a medical professional who works directly with patients rather than in a laboratory or as a researcher; attending; hospitalist; croaker; doc sounds like coalition, commission, condition, corinthian, emission
- CL4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; bang; bash sounds like blip, flip, lip, quip, slip
IL
- IL5 — sounds like black, bleak, clique, elite, flak
- IL7 — contrary to or forbidden by law; criminal; felonious; illegal; illegitimate sounds like elicit
IN
- IN6 — sounds like can't, decant, enact, encamp, enchant
- IN6 — not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it; compleat; complete; comprehensive; entire sounds like enact
IT
- IT6 — sounds like idyllic, metallic, static, titanic
LA
- LA6 — sounds like tactic
- LA4 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like lick
- LA6 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like cul, cull, local, loyal, lull
LI
- LI5 — permitted by law; lawful; legal; legit; legitimate sounds like il*
- LI5 — sounds like black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack
NI
- NI6 — sounds like basic, basin, casing, chasten, evasive
PA
- PA4 — a formal agreement between two or more nations or peoples; an arrangement about action to be taken; accord; alliance; compact sounds like act, backed, fact
- PA5 — the emotion experienced in the presence or threat of danger; to strike with fear; too overcome with panic to think or act normally; alarm; anxiety sounds like manic
PI
- PI4 — sounds like peak, peaked, peek
- PI7 —
- PI6 — a situation or state of carefree comfort; something that is easy to do; as in eat, lunch; beer and skittles; easy street sounds like cynic, panic
TA
- TA5 — understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile
- TA4 — the ability to deal with others in touchy situations without offending them; diplomacy; tactfulness sounds like act, backed, fact, packed, pact
- TA6 — something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic
- TA8 — suitable for bringing about a desired result under the circumstances; advisable; desirable; expedient; judicious
- TA9 — sounds like technician
- TA4 — sounds like torque
- TA6 — sounds like manic, panic, tonic, tunic
TI
- TI5 — as in colored, hued; colored; colorized; dyed; hued sounds like linked
- TI7 — unusually large; astronomical; Brobdingnagian; bumper; colossal sounds like italic