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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Tue. 28 March, 2023

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

Letters: u  a  c  l  o  r  t

  • Total Answers: 43
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AC

  1. AC7 β€” something added (as by growth); accretion; addendum; addition; augmentation sounds like crewel, cruel
  2. AC6 β€” existing in fact and not merely as a possibility; concrete; de facto; effective; existent sounds like f**
  3. AC8 β€” as in control, lever; button; dial; key; knob sounds like agitator, alligator, allocator, cater, crater

AU

  1. AU4 β€” a special quality or impression associated with something; a spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings; air; ambience; aroma sounds like era, oral, orb, ore
  2. AU5 β€” of, relating to, or experienced through the sense of hearing; acoustic; audial; audile; auditory sounds like choral, coral, laurel, moral, orally
  3. AU6 β€” the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; day sounds like drawer, flora, roar, trauma
  4. AU7 β€” the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; day sounds like corporal, oracle, oral
  5. AU4 β€” a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels; automobile; bus; car; horseless carriage sounds like ought, stow, toe, tow
  6. AU8 β€” one who rules over a people with a sole, supreme, and usually hereditary authority; monarch; potentate; ruler; sovereign

CA

  1. CA10 β€”
  2. CA7 β€” as in call in, call up; as in cry, bark; call in; call up; knell sounds like clout
  3. CA4 β€” sounds like coal, cock, cod, coil, collar

CL

  1. CL5 β€” a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; the power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly; to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; bang; bash sounds like flout, kraut

CO

  1. CO10 β€” sounds like ultra
  2. CO5 β€” the residence of a ruler; an open space wholly or partly enclosed (as by buildings or walls); an assembly of persons for the administration of justice; palace; close sounds like cart, chord, fort, port

CU

  1. CU4 β€” something separated from a group or lot for not being as good as the others; to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities; discard; reject; rejection sounds like call, coal, coil, color, come
  2. CU4 β€” a group of people showing intense devotion to a cause, person, or work (as a film); a body of beliefs and practices regarding the supernatural and the worship of one or more deities; audience; followership; following sounds like color, colt, kilt
  3. CU8 β€” of or relating to the fine arts; artistic
  4. CU7 β€” sounds like crux
  5. CU7 β€” a person who is in charge of the things in a museum, zoo, etc.; cocurator; caretaker; custodian; guardian sounds like crater
  6. CU4 β€” a length of hair that forms a loop or series of loops; to follow a circular or spiral course; to sit or recline comfortably or cozily; frizz; frizzle sounds like burl, call, coal, coil, cool
  7. CU4 β€” 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
  8. CU6 β€” to stop functioning; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; to leave a place often for another; break; break down sounds like shutout

LO

  1. LO4 β€” a big clumsy often slow-witted person; a person whose behavior is offensive to others; clod; clodhopper; gawk sounds like bout, c, doubt, f, gout

LU

  1. LU4 β€” as in barbecue, cookout; barbecue; clambake; cookout; fry sounds like lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose
  2. LU4 β€” a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
  3. LU4 β€” something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled

OC

  1. OC6 β€” being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain; having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning; having seemingly supernatural qualities or powers; arcane; cryptic sounds like cult
  2. OC5 β€” to take place; to enter the mind of; to occur or exist at the same time; be; befall sounds like acre, other, succor, sucker, upper
  3. OC6 β€” of, relating to, or used in vision; optic; optical; visual sounds like circular, color, j**, secular

OR

  1. OR8 β€” as in prophetic, portentous; baleful; dire; foreboding; menacing sounds like granular

OU

  1. OU5 β€”

RO

  1. RO7 β€” to leave one's bed; arise; get up; rise; turn out sounds like bailout, bolt, clout, colt, fallout
  2. RO4 β€” a great number of persons or creatures massed together; people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class; failure to win a contest; army; bike sounds like bout, doubt, drought, gout, kraut

RU

  1. RU5 β€” of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people; as in special deliveries, registered mails; as in special delivery, registered mail; bucolic; country sounds like neural

TA

  1. TA7 β€” sounds like actual, factual
  2. TA4 β€” stretched with little or no give; rigid; tense; tight sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat

TO

  1. TO4 β€” a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position; to take a trip especially of some distance; an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness; hitch; stint sounds like boor, lure, moor, poor, sure
  2. TO4 β€” to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to provide publicity for; ballyhoo; blow up sounds like bout, doubt, gout, out, pout

TR

  1. TR5 β€” sounds like drought, kraut, rout, tout

TU

  1. TU5 β€” to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field; to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed; as in teacher, instructor; educate; indoctrinate sounds like neuter, shooter, suitor, tatter, teeter
  2. TU4 β€” as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo

UL

  1. UL5 β€” being very far from the center of public opinion; the highest part or point; extreme; extremist; fanatic sounds like alarm, allure, astray, flora, sultry

accrual, actual, actuator, aura, aural, aurora, auroral, auto, autocrat, calculator, callout, caul, clout, coloratura, court, cull, cult, cultural, curacao, curator, curl, curt, cutout, lout, luau, lull, lulu, occult, occur, ocular, oracular, outro, rollout, rout, rural, tactual, taut, tour, tout, trout, tutor, tutu, ultra