NYT π CluesβThu. 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! π€£
EF
- 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
- EF9 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); begetting; breeding; bringing sounds like affect, affected, connecting, reflecting
- EF6 β having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirit; lacking bodily strength; lacking strength of will or character; decadent; decayed sounds like feat
- EF9 β producing or capable of producing a desired result; effective; effectual; efficacious; fruitful sounds like deficient
FE
- FE4 β 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
- FE5 β to present a false appearance of; act; affect; assume; bluff sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, face
- FE8 β 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
- FE5 β 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
- FE8 β as in bluffing; bluffing; camouflaging; concealing; disguising sounds like fighting, fining
- 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
- FE7 β 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
- FE4 β 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
- FE6 β 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
- FI4 β a region of activity, knowledge, or influence; area; arena; bailiwick; barony sounds like beef, chief, feat, fee, feed
- FI4 β sounds like knife, life, rife, wife
- FI6 β
- FI7 β
- FI4 β 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
- FI6 β 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
- FI6 β having a limit; having distinct or certain limits; limited; bounded; circumscribed sounds like eyesight, faint, feint, fenced
- FI7 β 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
- GI4 β 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
- GI7 β 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
- IN11 β not producing the desired result; counterproductive; feckless; hamstrung; ineffective sounds like deficient, efficient
- IN6 β to pass something harmful (such as a disease) to someone or something else; contaminate; poison; communicate; conduct sounds like effect
- IN9 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; contaminating; poisoning; communicating sounds like effective
- IN8 β being or seeming to be without limits; bottomless; boundless; endless; fathomless
TE
- TE4 β sounds like chef, deaf, tiff, tough, turf
TI
- TI4 β 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