NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sun. 9 July, 2023

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

Letters: c  d  e  f  i  n  t

  • Total Answers: 48
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

CE

  1. CE4 β€” to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; to give up (as a position of authority) formally; cough up; deliver sounds like bead, deed, feed, heed, keyed
  2. CE5 β€” to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress; to give over the legal possession or ownership of; to give up (as a position of authority) formally; coughed up; delivered sounds like faded, jaded
  3. CE4 β€” of or relating to money, banking, or investments; financial; fiscal; monetary; pecuniary sounds like as**, assent, bent, dent, lent

CI

  1. CI4 β€” 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 β€” to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; to give as an example; adduced; instanced sounds like fitted, knitted, seated, stud
  3. CI8 β€” as in urbanized; to accustom to the ways of the city; to accustom to the ways of the city; urbanized; urban sounds like certified

DE

  1. DE8 β€” a dead person; deceased; bones; cadaver; carcass
  2. DE6 β€” the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery; the tendency to tell lies; artifice; cheating; cozenage sounds like dust
  3. DE6 β€” conforming to a high standard of morality or virtue; following the accepted rules of moral conduct; following the established traditions of refined society and good taste; all right; ethical sounds like recent
  4. DE6 β€” to come to a judgment about after discussion or consideration; to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute); to come to an agreement or decision concerning the details of; choose; conclude sounds like beside, divide
  5. DE7 β€” not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation; to come to a judgment about after discussion or consideration; to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute); apparent; bald sounds like divided, dividing, misguided, un***
  6. DE6 β€” something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing; as in emigrate; to leave (a cause or party) often in order to take up another; blemish; blight sounds like affect, direct, dissect, effect, infect
  7. DE8 β€” as in emigrated; to leave (a cause or party) often in order to take up another; emigrated; journeyed; peregrinated sounds like affected
  8. DE9 β€” lacking some necessary part; falling short of a standard; not coming up to an expected measure or meeting a particular need; fragmental; fragmentary sounds like efficient
  9. DE7 β€” a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number; crunch; dearth; deficiency; drought
  10. DE5 β€” sounds like bus, dice, done, dose, douse
  11. DE6 β€” as in heated, defrosted; defrosted; thawed; unfrozen; liquefied sounds like date, dirt, dot, doubt, dust
  12. DE7 β€”
  13. DE6 β€” to come upon after searching, study, or effort; ascertain; descry; determine; dig out
  14. DE8 β€” as in identified, discovered; to come upon after searching, study, or effort; to come upon after searching, study, or effort; discovered; identified sounds like affected, connected, directed, protected, selected

DI

  1. DI4 β€” a small cube marked on each side with one to six spots and usually played in pairs in various games; to cut into small pieces; a small cube marked on each side with one to six spots and usually played in pairs in various games; bones; die sounds like dose, douse, dye, dyke
  2. DI5 β€” to cut into small pieces; to cut into small pieces; chopped; hashed; minced sounds like cyst, dust, fist, gist, hissed
  3. DI8 β€” as in dietary; dietary; enriched; fortified; beneficial sounds like aesthetic, ascetic, athletic, beatnik, derrick
  4. DI10 β€” the quality or state of lacking confidence or assertiveness; bashfulness; mousiness; quietness; reserve sounds like decadence, defiance

ED

  1. ED5 β€” an order publicly issued by an authority; a statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned; bull; decree; diktat sounds like addict
  2. ED7 β€” a large, magnificent, or massive building; something built as a dwelling, shelter, or place for human activity; the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form; cathedral; hall sounds like duffel, oedipal

EF

  1. EF6 β€” a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause; the power to bring about a result on another; transportable items that one owns; aftereffect; aftermath sounds like affect, eject, elect, erect, infect
  2. EF8 β€” to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); begot; bred; brought sounds like addicted, affect, affection, afflicted, connected
  3. EF9 β€” producing or capable of producing a desired result; effective; effectual; efficacious; fruitful sounds like deficient

EI

  1. EI7 β€” sounds like ascetic, derrick, idyllic, poetic

EN

  1. EN6 β€” to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; allure; bait; beguile; betray
  2. EN7 β€” to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; allured; baited; beguiled sounds like dentist

FE

  1. FE5 β€” a physical object that blocks the way; to drive danger or attack away from; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; barricade; barrier sounds like dense, hence, offense, pence, sense
  2. FE6 β€” to drive danger or attack away from; to drive danger or attack away from; to close or shut in by or as if by barriers; bulwarked; covered

IC

  1. IC4 β€” as in frozen, refrigerated; to make sure, certain, or safe; to put to death deliberately; frore; frosted sounds like east, eyesight, heist, oust

IN

  1. IN9 β€” the rate at which something happens; appearance; occurrence; chronicity; constancy
  2. IN8 β€” something that happens; something that is found along with something else; as in attending, accompanying; affair; circumstance
  3. IN6 β€” to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to rouse to strong feeling or action; abet; brew; ferment sounds like excite
  4. IN7 β€” to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to rouse to strong feeling or action; to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; abetted; brewed sounds like excited
  5. IN8 β€” depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society; bawdy; blue; coarse; crude sounds like decent
  6. IN6 β€” to make a claim of wrongdoing against; accuse; charge; criminate; defame
  7. IN8 β€” as in accused, impeached; to make a claim of wrongdoing against; to make a claim of wrongdoing against; accused; impeached
  8. IN11 β€” not producing the desired result; counterproductive; feckless; hamstrung; ineffective sounds like deficient, efficient
  9. IN6 β€” to pass something harmful (such as a disease) to someone or something else; contaminate; poison; communicate; conduct sounds like effect
  10. IN8 β€” to pass something harmful (such as a disease) to someone or something else; to pass something harmful (such as a disease) to someone or something else; contaminated; poisoned; communicated

NI

  1. NI4 β€” following the established traditions of refined society and good taste; giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses; hard to please; befitting; correct sounds like dice, ice, knife, knight, lice
  2. NI5 β€” sounds like cease, knead, knee, kneel, lease

TI

  1. TI5 β€” as in colored, hued; colored; colorized; dyed; hued sounds like linked

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