NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 28 October, 2022

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

Letters: c  e  f  i  l  n  t

  • Total Answers: 34
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CE

  1. CE4 — an area within a building that has been set apart from surrounding space by a wall; one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided; a local unit of an organization synonyms—apartment, chamber, closet, room, bay sounds like—bell, dell, fell, gel, hell

  2. CE5 — the bass member of the violin family tuned an octave below the viola sounds like—belly, jelly, sally, self, sell

  3. CE4 — of or relating to money, banking, or investments synonyms—financial, fiscal, monetary, pecuniary, pocket sounds like—as, assent, bent, dent, lent

CI

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

CL

  1. CL4 — a placing the F below middle C on the fourth line of the staff; the bass staff

  2. CL5 — an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure synonyms—check, chink, crack, cranny, crevice sounds like—left

  3. CL6 — a person who buys a product or uses a service from a business synonyms—account, customer, guest, patron, punter sounds like—pliant

  4. CL9 — a body of clients

  5. CL5 — a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice synonyms—barranca, bluff, crag, escarpment, palisade

  6. CL6 — a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured; an intensive educational or training program synonyms—hospital, infirmary, medical center, sick bay, sickroom sounds like—chronic

EC

  1. EC8 — consisting of many things of different sorts synonyms—assorted, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, kitchen-sink, magpie sounds like—elective, electric

EF

  1. EF6 — a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause; the power to bring about a result on another; transportable items that one owns synonyms—after**, aftermath, backwash, child, conclusion sounds like—affect, eject, elect, erect, infect

  2. EF9 — producing or capable of producing a desired result synonyms—effective, effectual, efficacious, fruitful, operative sounds like—deficient

EL

  1. EL5 — to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities synonyms—cherry-pick, choose, cull, handpick, name sounds like—effect, eject, erect

  2. EL7 — sounds like—affect, aplenty, collect, collector, plenty

  3. EL6 — to draw out (something hidden, latent, or reserved) synonyms—educe, evoke, inspire, raise sounds like—illicit

EN

  1. EN6 — to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage synonyms—allure, bait, beguile, betray, decoy

FE

  1. FE5 — a physical object that blocks the way synonyms—barricade, barrier, hedge, wall sounds like—dense, hence, offense, pence, sense

FL

  1. FL6 — the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick synonyms—coat, fur, hair, jacket, pelage sounds like—lease

IC

  1. IC6 — a cold aloof person synonyms—cold fish, cold turkey, iceberg sounds like—bicycle, sickle

IL

  1. IL7 — contrary to or forbidden by law synonyms—criminal, felonious, illegal, illegitimate, lawless sounds like—elicit

IN

  1. IN6 — to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to rouse to strong feeling or action synonyms—abet, brew, ferment, foment, instigate sounds like—excite

  2. IN7 — the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizon synonyms—cant, diagonal, grade, gradient, inclination

  3. IN11 — not producing the desired result synonyms—counterproductive, feckless, hamstrung, ineffective, ineffectual sounds like—deficient, efficient

  4. IN6 — to pass something harmful (such as a disease) to someone or something else synonyms—contaminate, poison, communicate, conduct, convey sounds like—effect

  5. IN7 — to change from a straight line or course to a curved one synonyms—incurvate, incurve, reflect, arch, bend

  6. IN7 — to cause someone to accept or experience something unwanted synonyms—entail, force, impose, thrust, beget

  7. IN9 — a very smart person; the ability to learn and understand or to deal with problems synonyms—brain, brainiac, genius, thinker, whiz

LE

  1. LE8 — kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it synonyms—charity, clemency, forbearance, leniency, lenity

LI

  1. LI4 — a person whose behavior is offensive to others synonyms—bastard, beast, bleeder, blighter, boor sounds like—dice, ice, lace, lass, lease

  2. LI5 — permitted by law synonyms—lawful, legal, legit, legitimate sounds like—il*

NI

  1. NI4 — following the established traditions of refined society and good taste; giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses; hard to please synonyms—befitting, correct, de rigueur, decent, decorous sounds like—dice, ice, knife, knight, lice

  2. NI5 — as in nephew synonyms—nephew, bastard, by-blow, love child, whoreson sounds like—cease, knead, knee, kneel, lease

TI

  1. TI5 — as in colored, hued synonyms—colored, colorized, dyed, hued, painted sounds like—linked

cell, celli, cent, cite, clef, cleft, client, clientele, cliff, clinic, eclectic, effect, efficient, elect, electee, elicit, entice, fence, fleece, icicle, illicit, incite, incline, inefficient, infect, inflect, inflict, intellect, lenience, lice, licit, nice, niece, tinct