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

Letters: c  i  k  l  p  r  y

• Total Answers: 17
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CI

1. CI5 — sounds like airy, brie, eerie, free, sari

CL

3. CL5 — to form a close personal relationship; to turn out as planned or desired; bond; commune; relate sounds like flick
4. CL4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; bang; bash sounds like blip, flip, lip, quip, slip

CR

6. CR5 — a painful sudden tightening of a muscle; charley horse; cramp; kink; spasm sounds like brick, click, kick, prick

CY

8. CY6 — happening again and again in the same order; alternate; intermittent; periodic; recurrent sounds like psychic

IC

10. IC5 — having a low or subnormal temperature; lacking in friendliness or warmth of feeling; algid; arctic; bitter sounds like acidly, easily, eerily, finally, gulley
11. IC4 — not giving pleasure to the mind or senses; bad; bitter; disagreeable; displeasing sounds like eerie, iffy, itchy, key, p**

KI

13. KI4 — to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to present an opposing opinion or argument; a pleasurably intense stimulation of the feelings; beef; bellyache sounds like cake, chick, click, cock, coke
14. KI5 — causing great emotional or mental stimulation; breathtaking; charged; electric; electrifying sounds like cocky, cookie, khaki, picky, quickie

LI

16. LI4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; a very small amount; the smallest amount or part imaginable; bang; bash sounds like chick, c, dick, f, hick

LY

18. LY5 — a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect; a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment; having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music; poem; rune sounds like brick, citric, civic, clearing, cleric

PI

20. PI4 — a person or thing that is chosen; individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class; the power, right, or opportunity to choose; bet; choice sounds like chick, dick, epic, hick, kick
21. PI5 — hard to please; tending to select carefully; choosy; dainty; delicate sounds like perky, pokey

PR

23. PR5 — a mark or small hole made by a pointed instrument; a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body; as in poke, prickle; perforation; pinhole sounds like brick, pick, trick
24. PR7 — causing an unpleasant tingling sensation; easily irritated or annoyed; having leaves or branches which are likely to cause a scratch; irritating; itchy
25. PR5 — commanding a large price; big-ticket; costly; dear; expensive

RI

27. RI4 — as in pyramid, mow; mow; pyramid; bed; layer sounds like b**, chick, dick, hick, kick