NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 30 May, 2023

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

Letters: c  a  e  i  p  t  v

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

AC

  1. AC6 — sounds like occasion

  2. AC4 — sounds like occur, sky

  3. AC6 — to agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly; to have a favorable opinion of; to regard as right or true; have; take sounds like except

  4. AC7 — sounds like agitate, annotate

  5. AC6 — sounds like ascetic

  6. AC8 — to cause to function; actuate; crank (up); drive; move sounds like aggravate, motivate, re**

  7. AC6 — being in effective operation; having much high-spirited energy and movement; involved in often constant activity; alive; functional sounds like octave

AP

  1. AP5 — with great speed; briskly; chop-chop; double-quick; fast sounds like pace, space

  2. AP6 — for each one; not having or showing any apparent conflict; all; each; per sounds like eyepiece, peace, piece

AT

  1. 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

CA

  1. CA5 —

  2. CA4 — a sleeveless garment worn so as to hang over the shoulders, arms, and back; an area of land that juts out into a body of water; capote; cloak; frock sounds like ape, coop

  3. CA9 — to attract or delight as if by magic; allure; beguile; bewitch; charm

  4. CA7 — taken and held prisoner; one that has been taken and held in confinement; apprehended; arrested; captured sounds like active

  5. CA4 — sounds like comma, java, lava

  6. CA4 — a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface; as in submit, yield; to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure; antre; cavern sounds like cove, crave, curve

  7. CA6 — something (such as a piece of advice) that should be remembered when one is doing or thinking about something; admonishment; admonition; alarm; alert sounds like aviator, cleat, combat, copycat, covert

CI

  1. CI4 — to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; adduce; instance; mention sounds like bite, byte, eyesight, fight, height

  2. CI5 — sounds like pivot, rivet

  3. CI5 — relating to a city, town, or country or to the people who live there; federal; municipal; civil; national sounds like cynic

EP

  1. EP4 — large and impressive in size, grandeur, extent, or conception; as in story, tale; as in ode, elegy; august; baronial sounds like ethic, pick

EV

  1. EV5 — to force (someone) to leave a place; deforce; deport; displace; dispossess sounds like addict, civic, depict, edict, effect

  2. EV7 —

IP

  1. IP6 — sounds like attack, epitaph, epoch, epochal, epoxy

PA

  1. PA4 — as in rate, tempo; to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group; to move forward along a course; clip; gait sounds like ace, a**, base, case, chase

  2. PA4 — a formal agreement between two or more nations or peoples; an arrangement about action to be taken; accord; alliance; compact sounds like act, backed, fact

PE

  1. PE5 — a state without war; freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions; a state of freedom from storm or disturbance; peacefulness; calm sounds like apiece, cease, eyepiece, lease, niece

  2. PE6 — sounds like septic

PI

  1. PI4 — sounds like peak, peaked, peek

  2. PI7 —

  3. PI5 — a broken or irregular part of something that often remains incomplete; a literary, musical, or artistic production; a portable weapon from which a shot is discharged by gunpowder; bit; fraction sounds like a*, cease, eye*, lease, niece

TA

  1. TA5 — sounds like facet

  2. TA5 — understood although not put into words; implicit; implied; unexpressed; unspoken sounds like asset, cast, caste, facet, facile

  3. TA4 — the ability to deal with others in touchy situations without offending them; diplomacy; tactfulness sounds like act, backed, fact, packed, pact

  4. TA6 — something done to achieve a particular goal; means; method; technique; way sounds like acting, active, antic, arctic, attic

VA

  1. VA6 — to put an end to by formal action; to remove the contents of; abate; abolish; abrogate sounds like baked, locate, placate, shakeout, skate

VI

  1. VI4 — immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society; a defect in character; the practice of engaging in sexual activities for money; corruption; debauchery sounds like dice, ice, lice, nice, rice

  2. VI6 — sounds like apace, avail, averse, debase, vase

acacia, acai, accept, acetate, acetic, activate, active, apace, apiece, attic, cacti, cape, captivate, captive, cava, cave, caveat, cite, civet, civic, epic, evict, evictee, ipecac, pace, pact, peace, peptic, pica, piccata, piece, tacet, tacit, tact, tactic, vacate, vice, vivace