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

Letters: c  a  i  n  r  t  u

• Total Answers: 50
• Pangrams: 2
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

1. AC6 — sounds like occasion
2. AC4 — sounds like occur, sky

AN

4. AN9 —
5. 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

AR

7. AR6 —
8. AR6 — having a low or subnormal temperature; lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; algid; bitter; bone-chilling
9. AR6 — sounds like onyx

AT

11. 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
12. AT7 — to engage the attention of; draw; entice; interest; allure sounds like tracked, tract
13. AT10 —

CA

15. CA5 —
16. CA5 — a small quantity of stones heaped together that usually marks a place; barrow; cock; heap; hill sounds like corn
17. CA6 — sounds like common, concave, condom
18. CA5 — sounds like manna
19. CA4 — the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon; the pretending of having virtues, principles, or beliefs that one in fact does not have; the special terms or expressions of a particular group or field; diagonal; grade sounds like ant, aunt
20. CA7 — as in hymn, anthem; anthem; canticle; carol; chorale
21. CA7 — a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises; bar; barroom; café; dramshop
22. CA5 — sounds like beret, ferret, merit, parrot
23. CA4 — a wheeled usually horse-drawn vehicle used for hauling; to support and take from one place to another; as in buggy, phaeton; wagon; wain sounds like art, chart, cost, cot, court
24. CA8 — a fall of water usually from a great height; a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; cascade; fall(s); waterfall sounds like counteract, interact

CI

26. CI5 — not far from (something) in time; alongside; beside; about; around
27. CI7 — as in compass, ambit; as in loop, circle; as in tour; ambit; compass sounds like socket, surfeit
28. CI5 — sounds like airy, brie, eerie, free, sari
29. CI6 — sounds like cynic, cystic, lyric, metric, satiric

CR

31. CR6 — the case of bone that encloses the brain and supports the jaws of vertebrates; the case of bone that encloses the brain and supports the jaws of vertebrates; skulls; skull sounds like chronic, cornea, krona
32. CR6 — 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

CU

34. CU7 — sounds like aren't, brunt, crunch, crushed, crust
35. CU4 — being or characterized by direct, brief, and potentially rude speech or manner; marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning; abrupt; bluff; blunt sounds like cat, caught, coat, cot
36. CU7 — something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth; pieces of cloth hung to darken, decorate, or divide a room; the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities; blanket; cloak sounds like certain, cotton, kitten

IN

38. IN6 — sounds like can't, decant, enact, encamp, enchant
39. IN5 — as in catch, contract; catch; contract; accept; court
40. IN6 — not lacking any part or member that properly belongs to it; compleat; complete; comprehensive; entire sounds like enact

NA

42. NA4 — as in fed, plainclothesman; a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; fed; Federal; G-man sounds like arc, bark, dark, knock, lark

NI

44. NI6 — sounds like basic, basin, casing, chasten, evasive
45. NI6 — sounds like citric

RI

47. RI5 — sounds like christen, listen, written

RU

49. RU5 — a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect; lyric; poem; song; verse sounds like tunic

TA

51. TA5 — understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile
52. TA8 — tending not to speak frequently (as by habit or inclination); closemouthed; dumb; laconic; reserved sounds like acetone
53. TA4 — the ability to deal with others in touchy situations without offending them; diplomacy; tactfulness sounds like act, backed, fact, packed, pact
54. TA6 — something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic
55. TA9 — sounds like technician
56. TA6 — sounds like manic, panic, tonic, tunic
57. TA7 — sounds like antic, gastric

TI

59. TI5 — as in colored, hued; colored; colorized; dyed; hued sounds like linked
60. TI7 — unusually large; astronomical; Brobdingnagian; bumper; colossal sounds like italic

TR

62. TR5 — a broad geographical area; a small area of usually open land; a small piece of land that is developed or available for development; belt; corridor sounds like at*, cracked, tact

TU

64. TU5 — sounds like tonic

UN

66. UN5 — as in undiminished, unabridged; unabridged; undiminished; compleat; complete sounds like annuity, bucket, circuit, cut, docket

UR

68. UR4 — sounds like attic, baroque, brick, career, chick