NYT π CluesβSat. 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! π€£
AC
- AC6 β sounds like occasion
- AC4 β sounds like occur, sky
AI
- 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
- AO6 β sounds like aborted, abortive, ascetic, assorted, mortis
AP
- AP7 β sounds like parakeet, pecan, promote
AR
- AR6 β having a low or subnormal temperature; lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; algid; bitter; bone-chilling
- AR4 β a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson
AT
- AT5 β as in peristyles, gallerias; gallerias; parvises; peristyles; closes sounds like area, aria, outreach, streak, stream
- 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
- CA5 β
- CA9 β
- CA7 β sounds like karaoke
- CA9 β sounds like barrio
- CA5 β sounds like copy
CI
- CI4 β sounds like cheap, cheat, cheek, cheese, chief
- CI5 β not far from (something) in time; alongside; beside; about; around
- CI5 β sounds like airy, brie, eerie, free, sari
- CI6 β sounds like cynic, cystic, lyric, metric, satiric
CO
- CO5 β sounds like catty, caught, clot
- CO5 β sounds like catchy
- CO4 β sounds like car
CR
- 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
- CR5 β
IO
- IO4 β the smallest amount or part imaginable; beans; bubkes; continental; damn sounds like aroma, beta, boa, boat, boater
OC
- OC6 β sounds like artery, artsy, arty, cope, copy
OP
- OP5 β of, relating to, or used in vision; ocular; optical; visual sounds like uptick
OR
- OR8 β as in mass; mass; Gloria Patri; hallelujah; paean
PA
- 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
- PA7 β
- PA5 β an open space wholly or partly enclosed (as by buildings or walls); close; court; courtyard; enclosure
- PA7 β a person who loves his or her country and supports its interests and policies; loyalist sounds like atrium
- PA9 β having or showing love and support for one's country; nationalist; nationalistic sounds like un*
PI
- PI4 β sounds like peak, peaked, peek
- PI7 β
- PI5 β sounds like packet, pocket, ticket, wicket
- PI5 β sounds like peanut, people, puppet
- PI7 β sounds like erratic
- 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
- PI7 β to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner; beat; palpitate; pitter-patter; pulsate sounds like puppet
PO
- PO7 β a row of columns supporting a roof at the entrance of a building; colonnade; galilee; terrace; gallery
- PO8 β a vivid representation in words of someone or something; definition; delineation; depiction; description sounds like fortress, shortcut
PR
- PR7 β sounds like periodic, tropic
- 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
- RA5 β sounds like beta
- RA5 β the relationship in quantity, amount, or size between two or more things; proportion; rate
RI
- RI7 β sounds like remote
- 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
- RO4 β sounds like goatee, ratty, wrote
TA
- TA5 β understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile
- TA6 β something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic
- TA7 β sounds like topic, topical
- TA5 β
TI
- TI5 β as in anadem; anadem; chaplet; coronal; coronet sounds like rearm, tar, tarred, tart, zebra
- TI6 β of the very best kind; the highest part or point; A-OK; A1; awesome sounds like hilltop, laptop
TO
- TO5 β a major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition); content; matter; motif; motive sounds like tropic
- TO4 β sounds like gory, story, talky, tarry, tawdry
- TO5 β sounds like trick
- TO5 β sounds like boring, corny, forage, foresee, gory
TR
- 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
- TR7 β one who betrays a trust or an allegiance; apostate; backstabber; betrayer; double-crosser sounds like crater, freighter, greater, straighter
- TR9 β sounds like oratorio, oratory, territorial, territory, tutorial
- TR6 β sounds like cricket, ticket
- TR4 β a group of three; threesome; triad; trifecta; trinity
- 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
- TR6 β as in tropical, subtropical; semitropical; subhumid; subtropical; tropical sounds like topic