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

Letters: i  a  c  e  n  t  y

• Total Answers: 50
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

1. AC6 — sounds like occasion
2. AC4 — sounds like occur, sky
3. AC6 — Like vinegar. sounds like ascetic

AN

5. AN7 — dating or surviving from the distant past; being of advanced years and especially past middle age; relating to or occurring near the beginning of a process, series, or time period; aged; age-old sounds like agent, ailment, enchant, infant, merchant
6. AN4 — opposed to; not for; as in bigot, misogynist; as in bigots, misogynists; against; agin sounds like aunt, p**e, shanty
7. 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

9. AT6 — to obtain (as a goal) through effort; to receive as return for effort; achieve; bag; chalk up sounds like obtain, stain
10. 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

12. CA5 —
13. CA6 — a domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes; an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning; dog; doggy; hound sounds like benign, confine, consign, mainline, quinine
14. CA7 — a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises; bar; barroom; café; dramshop

CI

16. CI4 — to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; adduce; instance; mention sounds like bite, byte, eyesight, fight, height
17. 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

19. 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

EN

21. EN6 — to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; allure; bait; beguile; betray
22. EN6 — one that has a real and independent existence; being; commodity; existent; individual

IN

24. IN5 — having no meaning; as in vacuum; empty; meaningless; pointless
25. IN7 — a foolish act or idea; lack of good sense or judgment; absurdity; asininity; bêtise
26. IN6 — sounds like can't, decant, enact, encamp, enchant
27. IN6 — to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to rouse to strong feeling or action; abet; brew; ferment sounds like excite
28. IN8 — to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of; to impart knowledge of a new thing or situation to; to put into an office or welcome into an organization with special ceremonies; begin; constitute
29. IN6 — being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing; built-in; constitutional; constitutive; essential sounds like elate
30. IN5 — sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy
31. IN6 — not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it; compleat; complete; comprehensive; entire sounds like enact
32. IN6 — something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action; fully committed to achieving a goal; aim; ambition

IT

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

NI

36. NI6 — sounds like basic, basin, casing, chasten, evasive
37. NI4 — following the established traditions of refined society and good taste; giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses; hard to please; befitting; correct sounds like dice, ice, knife, knight, lice
38. NI6 — a single piece of information; something that adds to one's ease of living; the quality or state of being very accurate; datum; detail sounds like city, feisty, nasty, nudity
39. NI5 — as in nephew; nephew; bastard; by-blow; love child sounds like cease, knead, knee, kneel, lease
40. NI4 — as in last word, hot ticket; as in last words, hot tickets; as in wage earner, wage slave; buzz; chic sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin
41. NI8 —
42. NI6 —
43. NI5 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a stupid person; berk; booby; charlie sounds like guinea, nanny, tinny
44. NI4 — sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height

TA

46. TA5 — understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile
47. TA6 — something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic
48. TA9 — sounds like technician
49. 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
50. TA6 — sounds like manic, panic, tonic, tunic
51. TA6 —

TE

53. TE8 — ability or willingness to carry on despite danger, difficulty, or obstacle; endurance; perseverance; persistence; persistency sounds like banality

TI

55. TI5 — as in colored, hued; colored; colorized; dyed; hued sounds like linked
56. TI4 — as in prong; prong; pinpoint; barb; jag sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, pine
57. TI5 — as in thin, peeping; peeping; thin; high-pitched; piping sounds like guinea, tony, tourney
58. 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
59. TI4 — very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty; infinitesimal sounds like shiny, tony, tourney
60. TI5 — something that is unusually large and powerful; behemoth; blockbuster; colossus; dinosaur sounds like heighten, lighten
61. TI7 — unusually large; astronomical; Brobdingnagian; bumper; colossal sounds like italic

YE

63. YE4 — sounds like jetty, petty