NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 27 April, 2023

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

Letters: f  b  d  e  i  n  t

  • Total Answers: 45
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

BE

  1. BE4 — an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; muscular strength; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; bitch; bleat

  2. BE6 — to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical force; bellyached; bitched

  3. BE5 — to be fitting or proper; beseem; do; fit; go

  4. BE8 — to be fitting or proper; to be fitting or proper; beseemed; did; fitted sounds like committed, fitted

  5. BE7 — a thing that helps; something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing; to provide with something useful or desirable; advantage; aid sounds like barefoot, barest, bonnet, budget, buffet

  6. BE9 — to provide with something useful or desirable; to provide with something useful or desirable; advantaged; availed; helped

  7. BE10 — to provide with something useful or desirable; to provide with something useful or desirable; advantaged; availed; helped

BI

  1. BI4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; bang; bash; bat sounds like beef, been, beer

  2. BI6 — to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; banged; bashed sounds like befit, built, gift, lift, miffed

DE

  1. DE6 — to drive danger or attack away from; to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections; bulwark; cover; fence

  2. DE8 — as in secure, secured; to drive danger or attack away from; to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections; guarded; protected sounds like offended

  3. DE6 — to go against the commands, prohibitions, or rules of; to invite (someone) to take part in a contest or to perform a feat; to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage; disobeyed; mocked sounds like abide, allied, aside, bugeyed, collide

  4. DE6 — to draw or make apparent the outline of; to mark the limits of; to point out the chief quality or qualities of an individual or group; delineate; outline sounds like divine

  5. DE7 — having distinct or certain limits; to draw or make apparent the outline of; to mark the limits of; bounded; circumscribed

  6. DE8 — having distinct or certain limits; so clearly expressed as to leave no doubt about the meaning; having no exceptions or restrictions; bounded; circumscribed

  7. DE4 — accomplished with trained ability; skillful with the hands; adroit; artful; bravura sounds like daft, heft, left, theft

  8. DE7 — to love or admire too much; to offer honor or respect to (someone) as a divine power; to assign a high status or value to; adored; adulated sounds like divide, dried, refile

DI

  1. DI9 — not comfortable around people; backward; bashful; coy; demure sounds like decadent, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient

ED

  1. ED7 — to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding; to provide (someone) with moral or spiritual understanding; educated; enlightened; illumed sounds like modified, rarefied, terrified, verified

EF

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

FE

  1. FE4 — to provide food or meals for; to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption; to take a meal; board; cater sounds like bead, cede, deed, fad, fade

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. FE7 — as in bluffed; bluffed; camouflaged; concealed; disguised sounds like final, find, fitted, founded, fountain

  5. FE4 — to drive danger or attack away from; to drive back; to meet one's day-to-day needs; bulwark; cover sounds like bend, end, fiend, find, fond

  6. FE6 — to drive danger or attack away from; to drive danger or attack away from; to drive back; bulwarked; covered sounds like ended, founded, funded, of**, tended

  7. 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

  8. FE5 — to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration; to show appreciation, respect, or affection for (someone) with a public celebration; honored; recognized; honor sounds like faded, fatal, fitted, rated

  9. FE5 — having an unpleasant smell; foul; frowsty; frowsy; funky sounds like fitted

FI

  1. FI6 — to make a statement one knows to be untrue; to strike repeatedly; to make a statement one knows to be untrue; fabricated; lied sounds like feared, ribbed

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

  3. FI5 — a mean, evil, or unprincipled person; a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally; a person with a strong and habitual liking for something; baddie; beast sounds like feed, feigned, fend, fond, found

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

  5. FI5 — sounds like gift, lift, miffed, rift, shift

  6. FI7 —

  7. FI4 — to come upon after searching, study, or effort; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance; something discovered; ascertain; descry sounds like bind, feigned, fend, fond, found

  8. 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

  9. FI5 — to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; to remove usually visible impurities from; to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; assessed; charged sounds like bind, feigned, fend, fond, found

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

  11. FI6 — sounds like feared, feigned, fend, fond, found

  12. FI6 — meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation; to be fitting or proper; to be in agreement on every point; applicable; appropriate sounds like fetid, knitted

ID

  1. ID10 — as in discovered, detected; to find out or establish the identity of; to think of (something) in combination; detected; discovered

IN

  1. IN10 — being or seeming to be without limits; not expressed in precise terms; not seen or understood clearly; bottomless; boundless sounds like definite

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

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

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