NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 8 May, 2023

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

Letters: c  a  b  f  i  k  l

  • Total Answers: 34
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AB

  1. AB5 — sounds like hibachi

  2. AB5 — without warning; to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected; to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected; suddenly; unanticipatedly sounds like attack, back

AC

  1. AC6 — sounds like occasion

  2. AC4 — sounds like occur, sky

AL

  1. AL5 — used to express sorrow or distress; alas; ay; wirra; woe sounds like attack, black, flak, lack, lak

BA

  1. BA7 — sounds like facile, ghastly, lastly, massively, passel

  2. BA4 — earlier than the present time; toward the opposite direction; toward the rear; ago; agone

  3. BA8 — to promote the interests or cause of; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea); advocate; champion

BI

  1. BI8 — relating to, taken from, or found in the Bible; scriptural; blessed; consecrate; consecrated

BL

  1. BL5 — having the color of soot or coal; causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer; not having a light complexion; ebony; pitch-black sounds like back, flak, lack, lak

  2. BL9 — to reject by or as if by a vote; as in veto; as in banishment, ostracism; down; kill

CA

  1. CA5 — a group involved in secret or criminal activities; as in team (up), collaborate; conspiracy; crew; gang sounds like banal, bubble, cobble, collage, couple

  2. CA6 — sounds like cobble, cobbler

  3. CA4 — the muscular back part of the leg below the knee; as in puppy love; as in puppy loves; drumstick; ham sounds like chaff, cough

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. CA8 — as in message, conference call; cold call; conference call; message; toll call sounds like comeback, cutback, fallback, fullback, halfback

CI

  1. CI5 — sounds like psyllium, sillier, silly

CL

  1. CL5 — to make a series of short sharp noises; as in clatter, cackle; clatter; rattle; cackle sounds like black

  2. CL5 — to form a close personal relationship; to turn out as planned or desired; bond; commune; relate sounds like flick

  3. CL5 — a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice; something (as a close contest) that induces much suspense as to its outcome; as in resident, resider; barranca; bluff

FA

  1. FA6 — sounds like racial

  2. FA8 — to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable); to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage; back away; drop back; pull out sounds like fullback

FL

  1. FL5 — sounds like black

  2. FL5 — to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements; a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track; as in shut off, turn off; dance; dart sounds like click

IL

  1. IL5 — sounds like black, bleak, clique, elite, flak

KI

  1. KI4 — to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to present an opposing opinion or argument; a pleasurably intense stimulation of the feelings; beef; bellyache sounds like cake, chick, click, cock, coke

  2. KI8 — to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; as in backlash; bask; loll sounds like comeback, cookbook, cutback, giveback

  3. KI8 — sounds like pinball

LA

  1. LA4 — the fact or state of being absent; a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number; a state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful; absence; dearth sounds like back, b**, flak, hack, jack

  2. LA4 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like lick

  3. LA6 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like cul, cull, local, loyal, lull

LI

  1. LI4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; a very small amount; the smallest amount or part imaginable; bang; bash sounds like chick, c, dick, f, hick

  2. LI5 — sounds like black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack

abaci, aback, acacia, acai, alack, bacilli, back, backfill, biblical, black, blackball, cabal, cabala, calf, call, calla, callback, cilia, clack, click, cliff, facial, fallback, flack, flick, iliac, kick, kickback, kickball, lack, laic, laical, lick, lilac