NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 17 December, 2022

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

Letters: c  a  h  i  l  n  r

  • Total Answers: 53
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! đŸ€Ł

AC

  1. AC6 — gum arabic; any of a large genus (**) of leguminous shrubs and trees of warm regions with leaves pinnate or reduced to phyllodes and white or yellow flower clusters sounds like—occasion

  2. AC4 — a small, dark purple, berrylike fruit with a juicy pulp that is often used in beverages or eaten raw and that is produced by a tall, slender palm (Euterpe oleracea) native to tropical rain forests of Central and South America; the palm (Euterpe oleracea) that produces berries; a beverage made from the juice of the berry sounds like—occur, sky

AN

  1. AN8 — not restrained by or under the control of legal authority synonyms—disorderly, lawbreaking, lawless, unruly sounds like—archaic, arctic, garlic, narco, narcotic

  2. AN10 — not restrained by or under the control of legal authority synonyms—disorderly, lawbreaking, lawless, unruly sounds like—article, barnacle, hierarchical, particle

AR

  1. AR6 — mysterious or specialized knowledge, language, or information accessible or possessed only by the initiate —usually used in plural; elixir

  2. AR4 — coming before all others in importance; displaying or marked by rude boldness; tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness synonyms—big, capital, cardinal, central, chief sounds like—m, p

  3. AR7 — having passed its time of use or usefulness synonyms—antiquated, dated, dĂ©modĂ©, demoded, fossilized

  4. AR6 — any of a genus (**) of composite herbs including some with bright yellow ray flowers sounds like—onyx

CA

  1. CA5 — a small quantity of stones heaped together that usually marks a place synonyms—barrow, cock, heap, hill, mound sounds like—corn

  2. CA4 — to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone ** to; to make a brief visit synonyms—bawl, bay, bellow, cry, holler sounds like—all, ball, bawl, coal, cog

  3. CA5 — to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit synonyms—bawl, bay, bellow, cry, holler sounds like—cola, gala

  4. CA5 — an open man-made passageway for water synonyms—aqueduct, channel, conduit, course, flume sounds like—banal, colonel, conceal, concur, confer

  5. CA6 — a woman's dance of French origin characterized by high kicking usually while holding up the front of a full ruffled skirt sounds like—common, concave, condom

  6. CA5 — any of a genus (* of the family *ceae) of tropical herbs with simple stems, large leaves, and a terminal raceme of irregular flowers sounds like—manna

  7. CA6 — having to do with life on earth especially as opposed to that in heaven; of or relating to the human body; pleasing to the physical senses synonyms—earthborn, earthbound, earthly, fleshly, material

CH

  1. CH4 — a beverage that is a blend of black tea, honey, spices, and milk sounds like—awry, buy, die, dye

  2. CH5 — a series of things linked together; something that makes movement or progress difficult; something that physically prevents free movement synonyms—catena, catenation, concatenation, consecution, nexus sounds like—arraign, bane, cane, feign

  3. CH5 — a person in charge of a meeting; the place of leadership or command synonyms—*man, *person, moderator, president, presider sounds like—air, bare, bear, care

  4. CH7 — egg-rich yeast-leavened bread that is usually braided or twisted before baking and is traditionally eaten by Jews on the Sabbath and holidays sounds like—gala

  5. CH4 — a female domestic servant synonyms—biddy, **woman, handmaiden, house girl, housekeeper sounds like—are, bar, car

  6. CH4 — an annual herb (Salvia hispanica) of the mint family that is native to Mexico and Guatemala, has spikes of blue, purple, or white flowers, and is grown for its grayish, edible, mucilaginous seeds which are eaten whole or used especially to make a beverage or oil; also : any of several related salvias (especially Salvia columbariae) of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico; the seed of a ** sounds like—keel, keen, keep, key, keyed

  7. CH4 — being in the latest or current fashion synonyms—à la mode, au courant, cool, exclusive, fashionable sounds like—beak, eke, geek, leak, meek

  8. CH5 —

  9. CH6 — as in extravagant, ostentatious synonyms—extravagant, exuberant, fancified, flamboyant, frilly

  10. CH5 — a dipping sauce of melted cheese and chopped * peppers —called also queso sounds like—filly, hilly, lily, nilly, really

  11. CH5 — lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; uncomfortably cool; having a low or subnormal temperature synonyms—antiseptic, arctic, brittle, *y, clammy sounds like—bill, dill

  12. CH4 — to engage in casual or rambling conversation synonyms—babble, blab, cackle, chaffer, chat sounds like—been, bin, din

  13. CH5 — as in ware, pottery synonyms—*ware, crockery, earthenware, porcelain, pottery sounds like—arena, bind

  14. CH10 — as in rabbit, otter synonyms—badger, beaver, chamois, ermine, fisher sounds like—manila, vanilla

CI

  1. CI5 — a minute short hairlike process often forming part of a fringe; especially : one on a cell that is capable of lashing movement and serves especially in free unicellular organisms to produce locomotion or in higher forms a current of fluid; eyelash sounds like—psyllium, sillier, silly

  2. CI5 — something that is easy to do; one that is certain to succeed synonyms—breeze, cake, cakewalk, child's play, cream puff sounds like—inch, lynch, pinch, sin, since

  3. CI5 — not far from (something) in time synonyms—alongside, beside, about, around, by

  4. CI5 — tendril; a slender usually flexible animal appendage or projection: such as; an arm of a barnacle sounds like—airy, brie, eerie, free, sari

CL

  1. CL4 — a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially; a group of persons who come from the same ancestor synonyms—body, bunch, circle, clique, community sounds like—can

  2. CL6 — to make final, definite, or beyond dispute synonyms—decide, determine, nail, settle sounds like—flinch, lynch

  3. CL6 — a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured; an intensive educational or training program synonyms—hospital, infirmary, medical center, sick bay, sickroom sounds like—chronic

  4. CL8 — having or showing a lack of emotion or interest synonyms—dispassionate, objective, impersonal, professional, businesslike sounds like—pinnacle

  5. CL9 — a medical professional who works directly with patients rather than in a laboratory or as a researcher synonyms—attending, hospitalist, croaker, doc, doctor sounds like—coalition, commission, condition, corinthian, emission

CR

  1. CR6 — the case of bone that encloses the brain and supports the jaws of vertebrates synonyms—skulls sounds like—chronic, cornea, krona

  2. CR7 — any of the nerves that arise in pairs from the lower surface of the brain one on each side and pass through openings in the skull to the periphery of the body and that comprise 12 pairs in reptiles, birds, and mammals and usually 10 in fishes and amphibians sounds like—bronchial, chronicle, consul

IL

  1. IL5 — of, relating to, or located on or near the ilium sounds like—black, bleak, clique, elite, flak

IN

  1. IN4 — a very small distance or degree; an individual part of a process, series, or ranking; the distance of something or someone from bottom to top synonyms—ace, hair, hairbreadth, hairline, hop, skip, and jump sounds like—c, itch, lynch, p

LA

  1. LA4 — as in lay, nonclerical synonyms—lay, nonclerical, atheistic, godless, irreligious sounds like—lick

  2. LA6 — as in lay, nonclerical synonyms—lay, nonclerical, atheistic, godless, irreligious sounds like—cul, cull, local, loyal, lull

  3. LA5 — any of a genus (Larix) of northern hemisphere trees of the pine family with short fascicled deciduous leaves; also : the wood of a * sounds like—arch, march, parch

LI

  1. LI5 — a widely cultivated European shrub (Syringa vulgaris) of the olive family that has cordate ovate leaves and large panicles of fragrant pinkish-purple or white flowers; a tree or shrub congeneric with the *; a variable color averaging a moderate purple sounds like—black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack

NA

  1. NA4 — as in fed, plainclothesman synonyms—fed, Federal, G-man, plainclothesman, shadow sounds like—arc, bark, dark, knock, lark

NI

  1. NI6 — an acid C6H5NO2 of the vitamin B complex found widely in animals and plants and used especially against pellagra; also : nicotinamide —called also nicotinic acid sounds like—basic, basin, casing, chasten, evasive

RA

  1. RA6 — of, relating to, or reflecting the traits exhibited by a group of people with a common ancestry and culture synonyms—ethnic, ethnical, tribal sounds like—facial

  2. RA7 — a railroad car; a self-propelled railroad car

  3. RA5 — a piece of land and its buildings used to grow crops or raise livestock synonyms—estate, farm, farmstead, grange sounds like—b*, wrench

RI

  1. RI4 — having goods, property, or money in abundance; containing much seasoning, fat, or sugar; having an abundance of some characteristic quality (as flavor) synonyms—affluent, deep-pocketed, fat, fat-cat, flush sounds like—bitch, ditch, hitch, itch, niche

  2. RI5 — a poisonous protein in the castor bean sounds like—christen, listen, written

acacia, acai, anarchic, anarchical, arcana, arch, archaic, arnica, cairn, call, calla, canal, cancan, canna, carnal, chai, chain, chair, challah, char, chia, chic, chica, chichi, chili, chill, chin, china, chinchilla, cilia, cinch, circa, cirri, clan, clinch, clinic, clinical, clinician, crania, cranial, iliac, inch, laic, laical, larch, lilac, narc, niacin, racial, railcar, ranch, rich, ricin