NYT π CluesβThu. 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! π€£
BE
- BE4 β an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; muscular strength; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; bitch; bleat
- BE6 β 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
- BE5 β to be fitting or proper; beseem; do; fit; go
- BE8 β to be fitting or proper; to be fitting or proper; beseemed; did; fitted sounds like committed, fitted
- BE7 β 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
- BE9 β to provide with something useful or desirable; to provide with something useful or desirable; advantaged; availed; helped
- BE10 β to provide with something useful or desirable; to provide with something useful or desirable; advantaged; availed; helped
BI
- BI4 β 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
- BI6 β 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
- DE6 β to drive danger or attack away from; to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections; bulwark; cover; fence
- DE8 β 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
- DE6 β 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
- DE6 β 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
- DE7 β having distinct or certain limits; to draw or make apparent the outline of; to mark the limits of; bounded; circumscribed
- DE8 β having distinct or certain limits; so clearly expressed as to leave no doubt about the meaning; having no exceptions or restrictions; bounded; circumscribed
- DE4 β accomplished with trained ability; skillful with the hands; adroit; artful; bravura sounds like daft, heft, left, theft
- DE7 β 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
- DI9 β not comfortable around people; backward; bashful; coy; demure sounds like decadent, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient
ED
- ED7 β 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
- EF6 β having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirit; lacking bodily strength; lacking strength of will or character; decadent; decayed sounds like feat
FE
- FE4 β 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
- 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 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
- FE7 β as in bluffed; bluffed; camouflaged; concealed; disguised sounds like final, find, fitted, founded, fountain
- FE4 β 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
- FE6 β 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
- 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
- FE5 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; honored; recognized; honor sounds like faded, fatal, fitted, rated
- FE5 β having an unpleasant smell; foul; frowsty; frowsy; funky sounds like fitted
FI
- FI6 β 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
- FI4 β a region of activity, knowledge, or influence; area; arena; bailiwick; barony sounds like beef, chief, feat, fee, feed
- FI5 β 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
- FI4 β sounds like knife, life, rife, wife
- FI5 β sounds like gift, lift, miffed, rift, shift
- FI7 β
- FI4 β 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
- 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
- FI5 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; assessed; charged sounds like bind, feigned, fend, fond, found
- FI6 β having a limit; having distinct or certain limits; limited; bounded; circumscribed sounds like eyesight, faint, feint, fenced
- FI6 β sounds like feared, feigned, fend, fond, found
- FI6 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 fetid, knitted
ID
- ID10 β as in discovered, detected; to find out or establish the identity of; to think of (something) in combination; detected; discovered
IN
- IN10 β being or seeming to be without limits; not expressed in precise terms; not seen or understood clearly; bottomless; boundless sounds like definite
- IN8 β being or seeming to be without limits; bottomless; boundless; endless; fathomless
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