NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 18 November, 2022

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

Letters: r  c  i  l  n  o  y

  • Total Answers: 23
  • 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

CO

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

  2. CO5 — a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; a substance used to * other materials; the hue or appearance of the skin and especially of the face synonyms—cast, hue, shade, tincture, tinge sounds like—caller, cul, cull

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

  4. CO7 — appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way; tiresomely obvious and unsophisticated synonyms—chocolate-box, cloying, drippy, fruity, gooey sounds like—carefully, carnal, choral, formally, morally

  5. CO5 — appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way; tiresomely obvious and unsophisticated synonyms—chocolate-box, cloying, drippy, fruity, gooey sounds like—thorny

CR

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

  2. 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

  3. CR5 — a person frequently seen in the company of another; a person who has a strong liking for and trust in another synonyms—associate, cohort, companion, compatriot, compeer sounds like—krona, kroner, kronor

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

  5. CR7 — the practice of freezing a person who has died of a disease in hopes of restoring life at some future time when a cure for the disease has been developed sounds like—chronic

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

  3. IR5 — a situation that is strange or funny because things happen in a way that seems to be the opposite of what is expected synonyms—contradiction, dichotomy, incongruity, paradox, absurdity sounds like—agony, aren't, brainy, brawny, brownie

LO

  1. LO5 — motortruck sounds like—glory, gory, leery

LY

  1. LY5 — a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a *al effect; a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment synonyms—poem, rune, song, verse, ballad sounds like—brick, citric, civic, clearing, cleric

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 natural body of running water smaller than a river synonyms—beck, bourn, brook, brooklet, burn sounds like—bill, chill, dill, d**, fill

RO

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

  2. RO4 — to be in a state of violent rolling motion; to make angry synonyms—boil, churn, moil, seethe, anger sounds like—boil, b**, coil, foil, oil

  3. RO4 — to form into a round compact mass; to make a low heavy **ing sound; to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions synonyms—agglomerate, ball, round, wad, growl sounds like—boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal

cirri, coir, color, corn, cornily, corny, croc, croci, crony, croon, cryonic, iron, ironic, irony, lorry, lyric, noir, nori, ricin, rill, rococo, roil, roll