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NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 2 January, 2023

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

Letters: c  e  f  i  n  t  v

  • Total Answers: 24
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

CE

  1. CE4 — of or relating to money, banking, or investments synonyms—financial, fiscal, monetary, pecuniary, pocket sounds like—as**, assent, bent, dent, lent

CI

  1. CI4 — to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically synonyms—adduce, instance, mention, quote, advert (to) sounds like—bite, byte, eyesight, fight, height
  2. CI5 — any of various Old World carnivorous viverrid mammals with long bodies, short legs, and a usually long tail; a thick yellowish musky-odored substance found in a sac near the anus of the * (especially genera *tictis, Viverra, and Viverricula) and used in perfume sounds like—pivot, rivet
  3. CI5 — relating to a city, town, or country or to the people who live there synonyms—federal, municipal, civil, national, public sounds like—cynic

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 synonyms—after**, aftermath, backwash, child, conclusion sounds like—affect, eject, elect, erect, infect
  2. EF9 — producing or capable of producing a desired result; having the power to persuade; existing in fact and not merely as a possibility synonyms—effectual, efficacious, efficient, fruitful, operative sounds like—defective, elective
  3. EF9 — producing or capable of producing a desired result synonyms—effective, effectual, efficacious, fruitful, operative sounds like—deficient

EN

  1. EN6 — to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage synonyms—allure, bait, beguile, betray, decoy

EV

  1. EV5 — to force (someone) to leave a place synonyms—deforce, deport, displace, dispossess, exile sounds like—addict, civic, depict, edict, effect
  2. EV7 — an evicted person
  3. EV6 — to make known (something abstract) through outward signs synonyms—bespeak, betray, communicate, declare, demonstrate sounds like—immense, mince, prince, quince, rinse

FE

  1. FE5 — a physical object that blocks the way synonyms—barricade, barrier, hedge, wall sounds like—dense, hence, offense, pence, sense

FI

  1. FI7 — as in fabricated, concocted synonyms—concocted, fabricated, feigned, daydreamlike, deceptive sounds like—active, addictive, adjective, effective, festive

IN

  1. IN9 — something that arouses action or activity synonyms—boost, encouragement, goad, impetus, impulse
  2. IN6 — to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to rouse to strong feeling or action synonyms—abet, brew, ferment, foment, instigate sounds like—excite
  3. IN11 — not producing the desired result; producing no results synonyms—counterproductive, feckless, hamstrung, ineffectual, inefficacious sounds like—defective, effective
  4. IN11 — not producing the desired result synonyms—counterproductive, feckless, hamstrung, ineffective, ineffectual sounds like—deficient, efficient
  5. IN6 — to pass something harmful (such as a disease) to someone or something else synonyms—contaminate, poison, communicate, conduct, convey sounds like—effect
  6. IN9 — as in infectious synonyms—infectious, catching, communicable, contagious, pestilent sounds like—effective
  7. IN9 — harsh insulting language synonyms—abuse, billingsgate, fulmination, obloquy, scurrility

NI

  1. NI4 — following the established traditions of refined society and good taste; giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses; hard to please synonyms—befitting, correct, de rigueur, decent, decorous sounds like—dice, ice, knife, knight, lice
  2. NI5 — as in nephew synonyms—nephew, bastard, by-blow, love child, whoreson sounds like—cease, knead, knee, kneel, lease

TI

  1. TI5 — as in colored, hued synonyms—colored, colorized, dyed, hued, painted sounds like—linked

VI

  1. VI4 — immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society; a defect in character; the practice of engaging in sexual activities for money synonyms—corruption, debauchery, depravity, immorality, iniquitousness sounds like—dice, ice, lice, nice, rice

cent, cite, civet, civic, effect, effective, efficient, entice, evict, evictee, evince, fence, fictive, incentive, incite, ineffective, inefficient, infect, infective, invective, nice, niece, tinct, vice