NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 24 September, 2022

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

Letters: t  f  i  n  o  r  u

  • Total Answers: 58
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

FI

  1. FI6 — sounds like—pinto

FO

  1. FO4 — a point or place at which something is invented or provided synonyms—cradle, fountain, fountainhead, origin, root sounds like—faint, feint, want

  2. FO4 — the lowest part, place, or point synonyms—base, basement, bottom, nadir, rock bottom sounds like—fat, fate, feat, fete, fight

  3. FO4 — a structure or place from which one can resist attack synonyms—bastion, castle, citadel, fastness, **ification sounds like—court, fault

  4. FO5 — a type font sounds like—count, faint, feint, mount

FR

  1. FR5 — being at or in the part of something opposite the back part synonyms—anterior, fore, forward, *al, *ward sounds like—af*, aren't, brunt, errant, grunt

  2. FR5 — a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause; something produced by physical or intellectual effort; the descendants of a person, animal, or plant synonyms—aftereffect, aftermath, backwash, child, conclusion sounds like—brute, flute, root, route

  3. FR8 — the state of being actual or complete synonyms—accomplishment, achievement, actuality, actualization, attainment sounds like—fission, physician, tuition

FU

  1. FU5 — as in mattress, pallet synonyms—bedstead, mattress, pallet, bed, bunk sounds like—fatten

IN

  1. IN4 — in addition to what has been said synonyms—additionally, again, also, besides, either sounds like—ensue, onto, unto

  2. IN5 — a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part synonyms—exordium, foreword, *duction, preamble, preface sounds like—encroach, engross, entice, entire, entre

  3. IN6 — to have a clear idea of synonyms—appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, behold, catch

  4. IN9 — an innate sense of what is true or what will happen synonyms—feel, insight, instinct, foreknowledge, foresight

NI

  1. NI5 — any of various nitrated products; specifically : *glycerin sounds like—gyro, knight, knightly, maestro, metro

NO

  1. NO6 — small useful items; a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action; an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge synonyms—etceteras, novelties, odds and ends, sundries, bee sounds like—lotion, motion, nation, ocean, potion

NU

  1. NU9 — the act or process of nourishing or being nourished; specifically : the sum of the processes by which an animal or plant takes in and utilizes food substances; nourishment

ON

  1. ON4 — as in hit (upon), pitch (upon) synonyms—chance (upon), encounter, find, happen (on or upon), hit (upon) sounds like—into, unto

OU

  1. OU6 — clothing chosen as appropriate for a specific situation; a commercial or industrial activity or organization; a group of people working together on a task synonyms—costume, drag, dress, garb, getup

  2. OU5 — a short, distinct closing section at the end of something (such as a piece of music, a performance, or a news report)

  3. OU6 — to go beyond the limit of synonyms—break, exceed, outreach, overpass, overreach

RI

  1. RI4 — an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure; an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge) synonyms—check, chink, cleft, crack, cranny sounds like—d**, gift, lift, miffed, raft

  2. RI4 — someone or something that is very funny synonyms—hoot, knee-slapper, laugh, scream sounds like—diet, rut, write

RO

  1. RO4 — a point or place at which something is invented or provided; the source from which something grows or develops; an immaterial thing upon which something else rests synonyms—cradle, font, fountain, fountainhead, origin sounds like—boot, brute, chute, fruit, hoot

  2. RO4 — a round soft flat unleavened bread; also : such a bread wrapped around a filling and eaten as a sandwich sounds like—goatee, ratty, wrote

  3. RO6 — short, corkscrew-shaped pasta sounds like—protein

  4. RO5 — as in gyroplane, convertiplane; as in biplane, triplane synonyms—autogiro, convertiplane, gyroplane, rotary-wing aircraft, *craft sounds like—boater, motor, voter, writer

  5. RO4 — a great number of persons or creatures massed together; people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class synonyms—army, bike, cram, crowd, crush sounds like—bout, doubt, drought, gout, kraut

RU

  1. RU6 — as in throw out, kick out synonyms—cast out, dismiss, eject, eliminate, evict sounds like—redoubt

  2. RU4 — a living thing much smaller than others of its kind synonyms—diminutive, dwarf, midget, mite, peewee sounds like—aren't, b, bunt, errant, front

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

  2. TI4 — a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished synonyms—cast, color, hue, shade, tincture sounds like—hint, lint, mint, s**, taint

TO

  1. TO4 — a soft food product prepared by treating soybean milk with coagulants (such as magnesium chloride or diluted acids) : bean curd sounds like—chauffeur, loaf, loafer, sofa, taboo

  2. TO4 — a lower limb of an animal; a portion of a trip synonyms—pin, lap, stage sounds like—attune, boon, dune, goon, loon

  3. TO4 — a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking synonyms—bender, binge, bust, carousal, carouse sounds like—boot, chute, hoot, jute, loot

  4. TO4 — sounds like—gory, story, talky, tarry, tawdry

  5. TO5 — a Japanese gateway of light construction commonly built at the approach to a Shinto shrine sounds like—boring, corny, forage, foresee, gory

  6. TO4 — to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it; to separate or remove by forceful pulling; to proceed or move quickly synonyms—rent, ribboned, ripped, riven, shredded sounds like—born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn

  7. TO4 —

  8. TO4 — a wrongful act other than a breach of contract for which relief may be obtained in the form of damages or an injunction sounds like—court, fort, port, short, sort

  9. TO7 — ice cream made of heavy cream often with minced almonds and chopped maraschino cherries and often flavored with rum sounds like—corny, courtly, crony, hormone, martini

  10. TO4 — a fixed period of time during which a person holds a job or position synonyms—hitch, stint, tenure, term sounds like—boor, lure, moor, poor, sure

  11. TO4 — to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to provide publicity for synonyms—ballyhoo, blow up, crack up, cry up, glorify sounds like—bout, doubt, gout, out, pout

TR

  1. TR4 — a group of three synonyms—threesome, triad, trifecta, trinity, triple

  2. TR6 — a son of Poseidon described as a demigod of the sea with the lower part of his body like that of a fish; any of various large marine gastropod mollusks (family Ranellidae synonym Cymatiidae) with a heavy elongated conical shell; also : the shell sounds like—brighten, frighten, tighten, titan

  3. TR4 — a mean or ugly old woman; abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools synonyms—beldam, carline, crone, hag, hellcat sounds like—rot

  4. TR5 — a brightly colored golden-yellow * (Oncorhynchus aguabonita synonym Salmo aguabonita) with red markings on the sides and belly that is native to waters of the southern Sierra Nevada but has been introduced in other upland waters of western North America sounds like—drought, kraut, rout, tout

TU

  1. TU4 — a rounded natural geographic elevation synonyms—heap, hill, mass, mountain, stack sounds like—stuffed, tough, tougher

  2. TU7 — the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another synonyms—education, instruction, schooling, teaching, training sounds like—fruition, munition, musician

  3. TU4 — as in territory synonyms—territory, study, subject, occupation, profession sounds like—serf, surf, term, terse, tiff

  4. TU4 — to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis; to change the course or direction of (something); to change one's course or direction synonyms—pivot, revolve, roll, rotate, spin sounds like—burn, burne, churn, durn, earn

  5. TU7 — to cause to feel disgust; to change one's course or direction; to let go from office, service, or employment synonyms—disgust, gross out, nauseate, put off, repel sounds like—runoff, takeoff, tipoff, tourney, trough

  6. TU7 — to leave one's bed; to remove the dirt from; to drive or force out synonyms—arise, get up, rise, roll out, uprise sounds like—burnout

  7. TU5 — to cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field; to give advice and instruction to (someone) regarding the course or process to be followed synonyms—educate, indoctrinate, instruct, lesson, school sounds like—neuter, shooter, suitor, tatter, teeter

  8. TU5 — a confection or ice cream containing chopped usually candied fruits sounds like—nutty, putty, touchy

  9. TU4 — as in hoot, howl synonyms—bark, bay, bellow, blat, bleat sounds like—tattoo

UN

  1. UN5 — lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job; not appropriate for a particular occasion or situation synonyms—inapt, incapable, incompetent, inept, inexpert sounds like—acquit, admit, annoying, befit, fit

  2. UN4 — as in item, single synonyms—entity, item, single

  3. UN4 — a person who acts in a way that shows he or she does not care what kind of behavior other people think is acceptable sounds like—anew, into, onto

finito, font, foot, fort, fount, front, fruit, fruition, futon, into, intro, intuit, intuition, nitro, notion, nutrition, onto, outfit, outro, outrun, rift, riot, root, roti, rotini, rotor, rout, runout, runt, tiff, tint, tofu, toon, toot, tori, torii, torn, toro, tort, tortoni, tour, tout, trio, triton, trot, trout, tuft, tuition, turf, turn, turnoff, turnout, tutor, tutti, tutu, unfit, unit, unto