NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 1 December, 2022

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

Letters: c  a  g  i  n  r  u

  • Total Answers: 38
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC6 — gum arabic; any of a large genus (**) of leguminous shrubs and trees of warm regions with leaves pinnate or reduced to phyllodes and white or yellow flower clusters sounds like—occasion

  2. AC4 — a small, dark purple, berrylike fruit with a juicy pulp that is often used in beverages or eaten raw and that is produced by a tall, slender palm (Euterpe oleracea) native to tropical rain forests of Central and South America; the palm (Euterpe oleracea) that produces berries; a beverage made from the juice of the berry sounds like—occur, sky

  3. AC8 — to increase in amount as time passes synonyms—accumulating, amassing, collecting, doubling (in), tripling (in) sounds like—undoing

  4. AC5 — as in nailing synonyms—nailing, bringing about, effecting, effectuating, implementing sounds like—icing, sing

AR

  1. AR6 — mysterious or specialized knowledge, language, or information accessible or possessed only by the initiate —usually used in plural; elixir

  2. AR6 — to turn away from a straight line or course synonyms—arching, bending, bowing, crooking, curving

  3. AR6 — any of a genus (**) of composite herbs including some with bright yellow ray flowers sounds like—onyx

CA

  1. CA6 — to close or shut in by or as if by barriers synonyms—boxing (in), closeting, cooping (up), corralling, en** sounds like—aging, bashing

  2. CA5 — a small quantity of stones heaped together that usually marks a place synonyms—barrow, cock, heap, hill, mound sounds like—corn

  3. CA6 — a woman's dance of French origin characterized by high kicking usually while holding up the front of a full ruffled skirt sounds like—common, concave, condom

  4. CA6 — as in strapping, leathering synonyms—blackjacking, cowhiding, flagellating, fustigating, horsewhipping sounds like—cunning, kenning

  5. CA5 — any of a genus (* of the family *ceae) of tropical herbs with simple stems, large leaves, and a terminal raceme of irregular flowers sounds like—manna

  6. CA7 — to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; to let go from office, service, or employment synonyms—breaking, breaking off, breaking up, ceasing, cutting off sounds like—cunning, kenning, tanning

  7. CA6 — having or showing concern for the well-being of others synonyms—attentive, beneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate sounds like—bearing, chairing, daring, derring, herring

CI

  1. CI5 — a small roll of tobacco leaf for smoking sounds like—guitar, scar, sear, sonar, star

  2. CI5 — not far from (something) in time synonyms—alongside, beside, about, around, by

  3. CI5 — tendril; a slender usually flexible animal appendage or projection: such as; an arm of a barnacle sounds like—airy, brie, eerie, free, sari

CR

  1. CR4 — a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice synonyms—barranca, bluff, cliff, escarpment, palisade sounds like—brag, drag, rag

  2. CR6 — the case of bone that encloses the brain and supports the jaws of vertebrates synonyms—skulls sounds like—chronic, cornea, krona

  3. CR7 — to move from a lower to a higher place or position synonyms—boosting, elevating, heaving, hefting, heightening

  4. CR8 — as in shrinking, cowering synonyms—cowering, shrinking, acquiescent, compliant, deferential sounds like—bridging, clanging, clearing, clipping

CU

  1. CU5 — as in lining, lining up synonyms—aligning, lining, lining up, queuing, emplacing sounds like—aching, cling, kick, kid, kill

  2. CU7 — clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means; skillful with the hands synonyms—artful, beguiling, cagey, crafty, cute sounds like—caning, coming, kenning, running

  3. CU6 — as in therapeutic, curative synonyms—corrective, curative, medicinal, rectifying, recuperative sounds like—alluring, caring, clearing, cooking, during

GR

  1. GR7 — to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming synonyms—adorning, arraying, beautifying, bedecking, bedizening

IC

  1. IC5 — as in fringe benefit synonyms—fringe benefit, award, prize, reward, favor sounds like—sing

IN

  1. IN5 — as in catch, contract synonyms—catch, contract, accept, court, embrace

  2. IN9 — as in catching, contracting synonyms—catching, contracting, accepting, courting, embracing sounds like—dickering, encourage, hindering

NA

  1. NA4 — as in fed, plainclothesman synonyms—fed, Federal, G-man, plainclothesman, shadow sounds like—arc, bark, dark, knock, lark

NI

  1. NI6 — an acid C6H5NO2 of the vitamin B complex found widely in animals and plants and used especially against pellagra; also : nicotinamide —called also nicotinic acid sounds like—basic, basin, casing, chasten, evasive

NU

  1. NU8 —

RA

  1. RA6 — as in running, fast synonyms—barreling, bolting, breakneck, breathless, brisk sounds like—casing, facing, pacing, t**

RI

  1. RI5 — a poisonous protein in the castor bean sounds like—christen, listen, written

  2. RI6 — to finely chop or process (a food) so that it resembles rice sounds like—missing, racing

RU

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

UN

  1. UN8 — to set free (as from slavery or confinement) synonyms—discharging, disenthralling, emancipating, enfranchising, enlarging sounds like—encouraging, packaging

  2. UN8 — not feeling or showing concern for someone or something synonyms—boorish, heedless, inconsiderate, thoughtless, unfriendly sounds like—caring

UR

  1. UR4 — a white odorless and tasteless nearly insoluble acid C5H4N4O3 that is the chief nitrogenous waste present in the urine especially of birds, reptiles, and insects, is present in small quantity in human urine, and occurs pathologically in renal calculi and the tophi of gout sounds like—attic, baroque, brick, career, chick

acacia, acai, accruing, acing, arcana, arcing, arnica, caging, cairn, cancan, caning, canna, canning, caring, cigar, circa, cirri, crag, crania, craning, cringing, cuing, cunning, curing, gracing, icing, incur, incurring, narc, niacin, nuancing, racing, ricin, ricing, runic, uncaging, uncaring, uric