NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 11 May, 2023

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

Letters: f  c  e  g  i  n  t

  • Total Answers: 29
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

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; aftereffect; aftermath sounds like affect, eject, elect, erect, infect

  2. EF9 — to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind); begetting; breeding; bringing sounds like affect, affected, connecting, reflecting

  3. EF6 — having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirit; lacking bodily strength; lacking strength of will or character; decadent; decayed sounds like feat

  4. EF9 — producing or capable of producing a desired result; effective; effectual; efficacious; fruitful sounds like deficient

FE

  1. FE4 — the lowest part, place, or point; the lowest part, place, or point; a defect in character; basements; bases sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, effete

  2. FE5 — to present a false appearance of; act; affect; assume; bluff sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, face

  3. FE8 — as in pretense, hoax; to present a false appearance of; to present a false appearance of; counterfeit; fake sounds like caning, facing, fading, fining, finish

  4. FE5 — a quick movement that you make to trick an opponent; as in bluff; not seen or understood clearly; bluff; end run sounds like fainter, fate, font, paint, saint

  5. FE8 — as in bluffing; bluffing; camouflaging; concealing; disguising sounds like fighting, fining

  6. FE5 — 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

  7. FE7 — as in surrounding, enclosing; to drive danger or attack away from; to drive danger or attack away from; bounding; circumjacent sounds like ending, facing, fining, forensic, funding

  8. FE4 — a social gathering; a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something; to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration; affair; bash sounds like ate, bait, date, eight, face

  9. FE6 — to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration; to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration; honoring; recognizing; honor sounds like fighting, fitting, footing, petting

FI

  1. FI4 — a region of activity, knowledge, or influence; area; arena; bailiwick; barony sounds like beef, chief, feat, fee, feed

  2. FI4 — sounds like knife, life, rife, wife

  3. FI6 —

  4. FI7 —

  5. FI4 — consisting of very small particles; made or done with extreme care and accuracy; being of less than usual width; dusty; floury sounds like dine, fan, fawn, feign, fern

  6. FI6 — to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; to remove usually visible impurities from; to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; assessing; charging sounds like dining, shining

  7. FI6 — having a limit; having distinct or certain limits; limited; bounded; circumscribed sounds like eyesight, faint, feint, fenced

  8. FI7 — meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation; to be fitting or proper; to be in agreement on every point; applicable; appropriate sounds like footing, sitting

GI

  1. GI4 — something given to someone without expectation of a return; a special and usually inborn ability; to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; bestowal; comp sounds like guilt, lift, miffed, rift, shift

  2. GI7 — to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; blessing; endowing; enduing sounds like lifting, shifting, sifting

IN

  1. IN11 — not producing the desired result; counterproductive; feckless; hamstrung; ineffective sounds like deficient, efficient

  2. IN6 — to pass something harmful (such as a disease) to someone or something else; contaminate; poison; communicate; conduct sounds like effect

  3. IN9 — 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; contaminating; poisoning; communicating sounds like effective

  4. IN8 — being or seeming to be without limits; bottomless; boundless; endless; fathomless

TE

  1. TE4 — sounds like chef, deaf, tiff, tough, turf

TI

  1. TI4 — an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions; to express different opinions about something often angrily; altercation; argle-bargle; argument sounds like riff, s**, tough, turf, whiff

effect, effecting, effete, efficient, feet, feign, feigning, feint, feinting, fence, fencing, fete, feting, fief, fife, fifing, fifteen, fine, fining, finite, fitting, gift, gifting, inefficient, infect, infecting, infinite, teff, tiff