Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 18 March, 2023

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

Letters: i  a  c  o  p  r  t

  • Total Answers: 65
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC6 β€” sounds like occasion
  2. AC4 β€” sounds like occur, sky

AI

  1. AI7 β€” a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and a terminal; aerodrome; airdrome; airfield; field sounds like carport, deport, escort, export, import

AO

  1. AO6 β€” sounds like aborted, abortive, ascetic, assorted, mortis

AP

  1. AP7 β€” sounds like parakeet, pecan, promote

AR

  1. AR6 β€” having a low or subnormal temperature; lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; algid; bitter; bone-chilling
  2. AR4 β€” a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson

AT

  1. AT5 β€” as in peristyles, gallerias; gallerias; parvises; peristyles; closes sounds like area, aria, outreach, streak, stream
  2. AT5 β€” 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

  1. CA5 β€”
  2. CA9 β€”
  3. CA7 β€” sounds like karaoke
  4. CA9 β€” sounds like barrio
  5. CA5 β€” sounds like copy

CI

  1. CI4 β€” sounds like cheap, cheat, cheek, cheese, chief
  2. CI5 β€” not far from (something) in time; alongside; beside; about; around
  3. CI5 β€” sounds like airy, brie, eerie, free, sari
  4. CI6 β€” sounds like cynic, cystic, lyric, metric, satiric

CO

  1. CO5 β€” sounds like catty, caught, clot
  2. CO5 β€” sounds like catchy
  3. CO4 β€” sounds like car

CR

  1. CR6 β€” a person given to harsh judgments and to finding faults; a person who makes or expresses a judgment on the quality of offerings in some field of endeavor; carper; castigator; caviler
  2. CR5 β€”

IO

  1. IO4 β€” the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes; continental; damn sounds like aroma, beta, boa, boat, boater

OC

  1. OC6 β€” sounds like artery, artsy, arty, cope, copy

OP

  1. OP5 β€” of, relating to, or used in vision; ocular; optical; visual sounds like uptick

OR

  1. OR8 β€” as in mass; mass; Gloria Patri; hallelujah; paean

PA

  1. PA4 β€” two things of the same or similar kind that match or are considered together; as in combine, fit; two things of the same or similar kind that match or are considered together; brace; couple sounds like air, bare, bear, care, chair
  2. PA7 β€”
  3. PA5 β€” an open space wholly or partly enclosed (as by buildings or walls); close; court; courtyard; enclosure
  4. PA7 β€” a person who loves his or her country and supports its interests and policies; loyalist sounds like atrium
  5. PA9 β€” having or showing love and support for one's country; nationalist; nationalistic sounds like un*

PI

  1. PI4 β€” sounds like peak, peaked, peek
  2. PI7 β€”
  3. PI5 β€” sounds like packet, pocket, ticket, wicket
  4. PI5 β€” sounds like peanut, people, puppet
  5. PI7 β€” sounds like erratic
  6. PI4 β€” to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner; to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner; to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner; beat; palpitate sounds like cheetah, peter
  7. PI7 β€” to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner; beat; palpitate; pitter-patter; pulsate sounds like puppet

PO

  1. PO7 β€” a row of columns supporting a roof at the entrance of a building; colonnade; galilee; terrace; gallery
  2. PO8 β€” a vivid representation in words of someone or something; definition; delineation; depiction; description sounds like fortress, shortcut

PR

  1. PR7 β€” sounds like periodic, tropic
  2. PR5 β€” coming before all others in importance; going before another in time or order; earlier than; arch; big sounds like drier, dryer, friar, fryer

RA

  1. RA5 β€” sounds like beta
  2. RA5 β€” the relationship in quantity, amount, or size between two or more things; proportion; rate

RI

  1. RI7 β€” sounds like remote
  2. RI4 β€” someone or something that is very funny; an often public or formal expression of disapproval; an often public or formal expression of disapproval; hoot; knee-slapper sounds like diet, rut, write

RO

  1. RO4 β€” sounds like goatee, ratty, wrote

TA

  1. TA5 β€” understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile
  2. TA6 β€” something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic
  3. TA7 β€” sounds like topic, topical
  4. TA5 β€”

TI

  1. TI5 β€” as in anadem; anadem; chaplet; coronal; coronet sounds like rearm, tar, tarred, tart, zebra
  2. TI6 β€” of the very best kind; the highest part or point; A-OK; A1; awesome sounds like hilltop, laptop

TO

  1. TO5 β€” a major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition); content; matter; motif; motive sounds like tropic
  2. TO4 β€” sounds like gory, story, talky, tarry, tawdry
  3. TO5 β€” sounds like trick
  4. TO5 β€” sounds like boring, corny, forage, foresee, gory

TR

  1. TR5 β€” something that sets apart an individual from others of the same kind; affection; attribute; attribution; character sounds like crate, freight, grate, great, irate
  2. TR7 β€” one who betrays a trust or an allegiance; apostate; backstabber; betrayer; double-crosser sounds like crater, freighter, greater, straighter
  3. TR9 β€” sounds like oratorio, oratory, territorial, territory, tutorial
  4. TR6 β€” sounds like cricket, ticket
  5. TR4 β€” a group of three; threesome; triad; trifecta; trinity
  6. TR4 β€” a going from one place to another usually of some distance; an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; to go at a pace faster than a walk; expedition; journey sounds like drip, grip, rip, s**, tip
  7. TR6 β€” as in tropical, subtropical; semitropical; subhumid; subtropical; tropical sounds like topic

acacia, acai, airport, aortic, apricot, arctic, aria, atria, attic, cacti, capacitor, carioca, carpaccio, carpi, ciao, circa, cirri, citric, coati, cocci, coir, critic, croci, iota, octopi, optic, oratorio, pair, partita, patio, patriot, patriotic, pica, piccata, picot, pipit, piratic, pita, pitapat, portico, portrait, priapic, prior, raita, ratio, ricotta, riot, roti, tacit, tactic, tapioca, tapir, tiara, tiptop, topic, tori, toric, torii, trait, traitor, trattoria, tricot, trio, trip, tropic