NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 14 December, 2022

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

Letters: f  d  e  g  i  n  o

  • Total Answers: 50
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! đŸ€Ł

DE

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

  2. DE8 — as in secure, secured synonyms—guarded, protected, safeguarded, secure, secured sounds like—offended

  3. DE9 — to drive danger or attack away from; to continue to declare to be true or proper despite opposition or objections synonyms—bulwarking, covering, fencing, fending, forfending sounds like—dissenting, refunding

  4. 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 synonyms—disobeyed, mocked, rebelled (against), challenged, dared sounds like—abide, allied, aside, bugeyed, collide

  5. 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 synonyms—delineate, outline, silhouette, sketch, trace sounds like—divine

  6. DE7 — having distinct or certain limits synonyms—bounded, circumscribed, definite, determinate, finite

  7. DE8 — 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 synonyms—delineating, outlining, silhouetting, sketching, tracing sounds like—dining, edifying, fining

  8. DE5 — to remove fog or condensed moisture from sounds like—afar, duffel, duffer, dug, fog

  9. DE8 — to remove fog or condensed moisture from sounds like—afar, afford, afraid, canard, diehard

  10. DE9 — to remove fog or condensed moisture from sounds like—bugging, differing, duckling, edifying, falling

  11. 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 synonyms—adored, adulated, canonized, doted (on), hero-worshipped sounds like—divide, dried, refile

DI

  1. DI9 — having or showing a formal and serious or reserved manner synonyms—august, distinguĂ©, distinguished, imposing, portly

DO

  1. DO4 — to rid oneself of (a garment) synonyms—douse, peel (off), put off, remove, shrug off sounds like—daub, dawn, deaf, off

  2. DO6 — to rid oneself of (a garment) synonyms—doused, peeled (off), put off, removed, shrugged off sounds like—daft, dart, deft, soft, waft

  3. DO7 — to rid oneself of (a garment) synonyms—dousing, peeling (off), putting off, removing, shrugging off sounds like—offing

ED

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

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 synonyms—board, cater, provision, victual, deliver sounds like—bead, cede, deed, fad, fade

  2. FE7 — to provide food or meals for; to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumption; to take a meal synonyms—boarding, catering, provisioning, victualing, delivering sounds like—fading, leading

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

  4. FE7 — lacking in natural or spontaneous quality; not being or expressing what one appears to be or express synonyms—affected, artificial, assumed, bogus, contrived sounds like—chained, fade, failed, faint, famed

  5. FE8 — as in pretense, hoax synonyms—counterfeit, fake, forgery, hoax, humbug sounds like—caning, facing, fading, fining, finish

  6. FE4 — to drive danger or attack away from synonyms—bulwark, cover, de, fence, for sounds like—bend, end, fiend, find, fond

  7. FE6 — to drive danger or attack away from synonyms—bulwarked, covered, de**, fenced, for** sounds like—ended, founded, funded, of**, tended

  8. FE7 — to drive danger or attack away from synonyms—bulwarking, covering, de***, fencing, for*** sounds like—ending, funding, lending, pending, vending

FI

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

  2. 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 synonyms—baddie, beast, brute, caitiff, devil sounds like—feed, feigned, fend, fond, found

  3. FI4 — a rail about the mast near the deck to which rigging is belayed sounds like—knife, life, rife, wife

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

  5. FI6 —

  6. FI4 — to come upon after searching, study, or effort; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance synonyms—ascertain, descry, detect, determine, dig out sounds like—bind, feigned, fend, fond, found

  7. FI7 — a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard; the act or process of sighting or learning the existence of something for the first time synonyms—doom, holding, judgment, ruling, sentence sounds like—binding, funding, winding

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

  9. FI5 — to establish or apply as a charge or penalty synonyms—assessed, charged, exacted, imposed, laid sounds like—bind, feigned, fend, fond, found

  10. FI6 — to establish or apply as a charge or penalty synonyms—assessing, charging, exacting, imposing, laying sounds like—dining, shining

  11. FI6 — to equip with fins; to show the fins above the water; to move through water propelled by fins sounds like—feared, feigned, fend, fond, found

FO

  1. FO6 — suffering from mental confusion synonyms—addle, addled, addlepated, bedeviled, be**

  2. FO7 — to make (something) unclear to the understanding; to make dark, dim, or indistinct synonyms—beclouding, be***, blurring, clouding, confusing sounds like—falling, jogging

  3. FO5 — sounds like—bogey, phoney, phony

  4. FO4 — having a liking or affection; feeling or showing love; granted special treatment or attention synonyms—affected, attached, inclined, partial, adoring sounds like—bond, conned, feigned, fend, fiend

  5. FO4 — substances intended to be eaten; something that maintains or stimulates the intellect synonyms—bread, chow, chuck, comestibles, eatables sounds like—fad, fade, feed, feud, lewd

  6. FO6 — a person who enjoys and cares about food very much synonyms—connoisseur, dilettante, bon vivant, epicure, epicurean sounds like—moody

GO

  1. GO4 — an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; a stupid person synonyms—blunder, bobble, boo-boo, boob, brick sounds like—gaffe, hoof, poof, roof, woof

  2. GO6 — to spend time in aimless activity synonyms—doodle, fiddle (around), fool around, fribble, hang about sounds like—gift

  3. GO7 — to spend time in aimless activity synonyms—doodle, fiddle (around), fool around, fribble, hang about sounds like—roofing

IN

  1. IN4 — a report of recent events or facts not previously known synonyms—411, advice(s), gen, **rmation, intelligence

OF

  1. OF5 — to put to death deliberately synonyms—assassinated, bumped off, croaked, did in, dispatched sounds like—tuft, upped

  2. OF6 — to commit an offense; to cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in; to fail to keep synonyms—err, fall, sin, stray, transgress sounds like—amend, append, ascend, attend, fend

  3. OF8 — to commit an offense; to cause hurt feelings or deep resentment in; to fail to keep synonyms—erred, fell, sinned, strayed, transgressed sounds like—affected, agenda, blended, ended, founded

  4. OF9 — as in offensive, insulting synonyms—affronting, insulting, offensive, outrageous, outraging sounds like—unending

  5. OF6 — time that is to come synonyms—by-and-by, future, futurity, hereafter, tomorrow

defend, defended, defending, defied, define, defined, defining, defog, defogged, defogging, deified, dignified, doff, doffed, doffing, edified, feed, feeding, feign, feigned, feigning, fend, fended, fending, fief, fiend, fife, fifed, fifing, find, finding, fine, fined, fining, finned, fogged, fogging, fogie, fond, food, foodie, goof, goofed, goofing, info, offed, offend, offended, offending, offing