NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 1 October, 2022

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

Letters: f  d  e  i  n  t  v

  • Total Answers: 39
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

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. 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

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

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

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

  7. DE10 — being the most accurate and apparently thorough; serving to put an end to all debate or questioning; so clearly expressed as to leave no doubt about the meaning synonyms—authoritative, classic, classical, magisterial, absolute

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

  9. 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 — not comfortable around people synonyms—backward, bashful, coy, demure, introverted sounds like—decadent, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient

ED

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

EF

  1. EF6 — having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirit; lacking bodily strength; lacking strength of will or character synonyms—decadent, decayed, degenerate, overripe, washed-up 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 synonyms—board, cater, provision, victual, deliver sounds like—bead, cede, deed, fad, fade

  2. FE4 — the lowest part, place, or point synonyms—basements, bases, bottoms, nadirs, rock bottoms sounds like—beat, beet, cheat, eat, effete

  3. FE5 — a quick movement that you make to trick an opponent synonyms—bluff, end run, artifice, device, dodge sounds like—fainter, fate, font, paint, saint

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

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

  6. FE6 — to drive danger or attack away from synonyms—bulwarked, covered, de**, fenced, for** 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 synonyms—affair, bash, binge, blast, blowout sounds like—ate, bait, date, eight, face

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

  9. FE5 — having an unpleasant smell synonyms—foul, frowsty, frowsy, funky, fusty sounds like—fitted

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. FI7 — a number that is one more than fourteen; the first point scored by a side in a game of tennis —called also five

  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. 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

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

  9. FI6 — having a limit; having distinct or certain limits synonyms—limited, bounded, circumscribed, defined, de** sounds like—eyesight, faint, feint, fenced

  10. 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

  11. FI6 — meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation synonyms—applicable, appropriate, apt, becoming, befitting sounds like—fetid, knitted

  12. FI4 — as in one, ten synonyms—C-note, fifty, fin, **r, hundred sounds like—arrive, chive, dive, hive, jive

ID

  1. ID10 — as in discovered, detected synonyms—detected, discovered, bustling, busy, crowded

IN

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

  2. IN8 — being or seeming to be without limits synonyms—bottomless, boundless, endless, fathomless, horizonless

  3. IN10 — a verb form normally identical in English with the first person singular that performs some functions of a noun and at the same time displays some characteristics of a verb and that is used with to (as in "I asked him to go") except with auxiliary and various other verbs (as in "no one saw him leave")

TI

  1. TI4 — an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions synonyms—altercation, argle-bargle, argument, argy-bargy, battle royal sounds like—riff, s**, tough, turf, whiff

VI

  1. VI8 — to give life, vigor, or spirit to synonyms—amped (up), animated, braced, energized, enlivened

defend, defended, defied, define, defined, definite, definitive, deft, deified, diffident, edified, effete, feed, feet, feint, feinted, fend, fended, fete, feted, fetid, fief, fiend, fife, fifed, fifteen, find, fine, fined, finite, finned, fitted, five, identified, indefinite, infinite, infinitive, tiff, vivified