NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 12 February, 2023

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

Letters: i  a  c  h  n  t  y

  • Total Answers: 52
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

  1. AC6 — sounds like occasion

  2. AC4 — sounds like occur, sky

AN

  1. AN4 — opposed to; not for; as in bigot, misogynist; as in bigots, misogynists; against; agin sounds like aunt, p**e, shanty

  2. AN5 — causing or intended to cause laughter; given to good-natured joking or teasing; a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke; chucklesome; comedic sounds like attic

AT

  1. AT6 — to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to receive as return for effort; achieve; bag; chalk up sounds like obtain, stain

  2. AT5 — 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 —

  2. CA7 — a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises; bar; barroom; café; dramshop

CH

  1. CH4 — 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; catena; catenation sounds like arraign, bane, cane, feign

  3. CH4 — sounds like keel, keen, keep, key, keyed

  4. CH7 — sounds like ante, candy, cannery, canny, canteen

  5. CH4 — being in the latest or current fashion; a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time; à la mode; au courant; cool sounds like beak, eke, geek, leak, meek

  6. CH5 —

  7. CH6 — as in extravagant, ostentatious; as in finery, froufrou; extravagant; exuberant; fancified

  8. CH4 — to engage in casual or rambling conversation; friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this; friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this; babble; blab sounds like been, bin, din

  9. CH5 — as in ware, pottery; as in taboret, chest; as in taborets, chests; chinaware; crockery sounds like arena, bind

  10. CH4 — as in sister, lass; bird; filly; lass; lassie sounds like bit, fit

  11. CH8 — friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this; backchat; cackle; causerie; chat sounds like begat, detach, detached, detect, detest

  12. CH6 — sounds like heighten, lighten, tighten, titan

CI

  1. CI5 — something that is easy to do; one that is certain to succeed; to make sure, certain, or safe; breeze; cake sounds like inch, lynch, pinch, sin, since

  2. CI4 — a thickly settled, highly populated area; a person with the outlook, experience, and manners thought to be typical of big city dwellers; a state that has its own government and consists of a city and the area around it; asphalt jungle; burg sounds like ditty, kitty, pity, silly, sit

CY

  1. CY5 — a person who distrusts other people and believes that everything is done for selfish reasons; misanthrope; naysayer; pessimist sounds like civic, scenic, sinning, sonic

HI

  1. HI5 — as in mule; mule; jack; jennet; jenny sounds like guinea, honey, tinny

  2. HI4 — a slight or indirect pointing to something (as a solution or explanation); an almost imperceptible sign of something; a piece of advice or useful information especially from an expert; clue; cue sounds like haunt, hunt, lint, mint, tint

  3. HI5 — a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized; a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position; to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion; booby trap; catch sounds like bitch, ditch, hatch, hear, here

  4. HI4 — sounds like arena, cheetah, diva, heal, healer

HY

  1. HY8 — sounds like highest, violin

IN

  1. IN7 — a foolish act or idea; lack of good sense or judgment; absurdity; asininity; bêtise

  2. IN6 — sounds like can't, decant, enact, encamp, enchant

  3. 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; ace; hair sounds like c, itch, lynch, p

  4. IN6 — not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it; compleat; complete; comprehensive; entire sounds like enact

IT

  1. IT4 — sexual appetite; a strong wish for something; intense sexual desire; concupiscence; desire sounds like b, d, each, ear, etch

  2. IT5 — causing an unpleasant tingling sensation; having a strong sexual desire; sexual appetite; irritating; prickly sounds like b*, eerie, iffy

  3. IT4 — very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy

NI

  1. NI6 — sounds like basic, basin, casing, chasten, evasive

  2. NI5 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a stupid person; berk; booby; charlie sounds like guinea, nanny, tinny

  3. NI5 — sounds like bind, china, dine, diner, find

TA

  1. TA5 — understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile

  2. TA6 — something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic

  3. TA9 — sounds like technician

  4. TA6 — sounds like bikini, genie, honey, rainy, teen

  5. TA5 — a mark of guilt or disgrace; to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable; blot; brand sounds like faint, feint, paint, saint, tent

  6. TA6 — sounds like manic, panic, tonic, tunic

  7. TA6 —

TH

  1. TH4 — having a noticeably small amount of body fat; being of less than usual width; not containing very much of some important element; bony; fatless sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin

TI

  1. TI5 — as in colored, hued; colored; colorized; dyed; hued sounds like linked

  2. TI5 — as in thin, peeping; peeping; thin; high-pitched; piping sounds like guinea, tony, tourney

  3. TI4 — a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; to give color or a different color to; cast; color; hue sounds like hint, lint, mint, s**, taint

  4. TI4 — very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like shiny, tony, tourney

  5. TI5 — something that is unusually large and powerful; behemoth; blockbuster; colossus; dinosaur sounds like heighten, lighten

  6. TI7 — unusually large; astronomical; Brobdingnagian; bumper; colossal sounds like italic

acacia, acai, anti, antic, attain, attic, cacti, cantina, chai, chain, chia, chianti, chic, chica, chichi, chin, china, chit, chitchat, chitin, cinch, city, cynic, hinny, hint, hitch, hiya, hyacinth, inanity, incant, inch, intact, itch, itchy, itty, niacin, ninny, ninth, tacit, tactic, tactician, tahini, taint, tannic, tannin, thin, tinct, tinny, tint, tiny, titan, titanic