NYT π CluesβTue. 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! π€£
AC
- AC7 β something added (as by growth); accretion; addendum; addition; augmentation sounds like crewel, cruel
- AC6 β existing in fact and not merely as a possibility; concrete; de facto; effective; existent sounds like f**
- AC8 β as in control, lever; button; dial; key; knob sounds like agitator, alligator, allocator, cater, crater
AU
- 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
- AU5 β of, relating to, or experienced through the sense of hearing; acoustic; audial; audile; auditory sounds like choral, coral, laurel, moral, orally
- 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
- 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
- AU4 β a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels; automobile; bus; car; horseless carriage sounds like ought, stow, toe, tow
- AU8 β one who rules over a people with a sole, supreme, and usually hereditary authority; monarch; potentate; ruler; sovereign
CA
- CA10 β
- CA7 β as in call in, call up; as in cry, bark; call in; call up; knell sounds like clout
- CA4 β sounds like coal, cock, cod, coil, collar
CL
- 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
- CO10 β sounds like ultra
- 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
- 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
- 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
- CU8 β of or relating to the fine arts; artistic
- CU7 β sounds like crux
- CU7 β a person who is in charge of the things in a museum, zoo, etc.; cocurator; caretaker; custodian; guardian sounds like crater
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- LU4 β as in barbecue, cookout; barbecue; clambake; cookout; fry sounds like lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose
- LU4 β a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
- LU4 β something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
OC
- 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
- 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
- OC6 β of, relating to, or used in vision; optic; optical; visual sounds like circular, color, j**, secular
OR
- OR8 β as in prophetic, portentous; baleful; dire; foreboding; menacing sounds like granular
OU
- OU5 β
RO
- RO7 β to leave one's bed; arise; get up; rise; turn out sounds like bailout, bolt, clout, colt, fallout
- 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
- 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
- TA7 β sounds like actual, factual
- TA4 β stretched with little or no give; rigid; tense; tight sounds like fought, naught, ought, sought, teat
TO
- 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
- 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
- TR5 β sounds like drought, kraut, rout, tout
TU
- 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
- TU4 β as in hoot, howl; as in hoots, howls; bark; bay; bellow sounds like tattoo
UL
- 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