Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sun. 28 May, 2023

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  u

  • Total Answers: 56
  • Pangrams: 4
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

DE

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. DE7 β€” having distinct or certain limits; to draw or make apparent the outline of; to mark the limits of; bounded; circumscribed
  6. 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
  7. DE4 β€” accomplished with trained ability; skillful with the hands; adroit; artful; bravura sounds like daft, heft, left, theft
  8. DE6 β€” as in disendow; disendow; draw; receive; subsist sounds like diamond, doesn't, dozen, dudgeon, duffel
  9. DE8 β€” as in disendowed; disendowed; drew; received; subsisted sounds like funded, offended
  10. 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

  1. DI9 β€” not comfortable around people; backward; bashful; coy; demure sounds like decadent, defendant, deferment, defiant, deficient

DU

  1. DU4 β€” the part of the body upon which someone sits; as in cheap, lousy; backside; behind; booty sounds like buff, cuff, deaf, doff, done

ED

  1. 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

  1. EF6 β€” having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirit; lacking bodily strength; lacking strength of will or character; decadent; decayed sounds like feat

FE

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. FE7 β€” as in bluffed; bluffed; camouflaged; concealed; disguised sounds like final, find, fitted, founded, fountain
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. FE5 β€” having an unpleasant smell; foul; frowsty; frowsy; funky sounds like fitted
  10. FE4 β€” a long and angry conflict between two people or two groups; as in score, feud; vendetta; argument; altercation sounds like food, fume, fuse
  11. FE6 β€” a long and angry conflict between two people or two groups; vendetta; argument; altercation; argle-bargle sounds like faded

FI

  1. FI4 β€” a region of activity, knowledge, or influence; area; arena; bailiwick; barony sounds like beef, chief, feat, fee, feed
  2. 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
  3. FI4 β€” sounds like knife, life, rife, wife
  4. FI5 β€” sounds like gift, lift, miffed, rift, shift
  5. FI7 β€”
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. FI6 β€” having a limit; having distinct or certain limits; limited; bounded; circumscribed sounds like eyesight, faint, feint, fenced
  10. FI8 β€” sounds like affinity, altitude, aptitude, attitude, benighted
  11. FI6 β€” sounds like feared, feigned, fend, fond, found
  12. 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

FU

  1. FU4 β€” a sum of money set aside for a particular purpose; available money; the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time; account; budget sounds like feigned, fend, fiend, find, fond
  2. FU6 β€” to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income; to provide money for; to furnish (as an institution) with a regular source of income; endowed; financed sounds like founded

ID

  1. ID10 β€” as in discovered, detected; to find out or establish the identity of; to think of (something) in combination; detected; discovered

IN

  1. IN10 β€” being or seeming to be without limits; not expressed in precise terms; not seen or understood clearly; bottomless; boundless sounds like definite
  2. IN8 β€” being or seeming to be without limits; bottomless; boundless; endless; fathomless
  3. IN10 β€”

TE

  1. TE4 β€” sounds like chef, deaf, tiff, tough, turf

TI

  1. 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

TU

  1. TU6 β€”
  2. TU4 β€” a rounded natural geographic elevation; heap; hill; mass; mountain sounds like stuffed, tough, tougher
  3. TU6 β€” a rounded natural geographic elevation; heap; hill; mass; mountain sounds like gifted, hunted, rusted, tested, toughen

UN

  1. UN10 β€” lacking protection from danger or resistance against attack; defenseless; exposed; helpless; susceptible sounds like offended
  2. UN9 β€” not seen or understood clearly; blear; bleary; blurry; dim sounds like defined
  3. UN5 β€”
  4. UN5 β€” lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job; not appropriate for a particular occasion or situation; inapt; incapable; incompetent sounds like acquit, admit, annoying, befit, fit
  5. UN8 β€” lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job; inapt; incapable; incompetent; inept sounds like admitted, fitted, knitted
  6. UN8 β€”
  7. UN12 β€” known but not named; not named or identified by a name; anonymous; certain; given sounds like identify
  8. UN7 β€” to bring (something) to a central point or under a single control; to come together to form a single unit; to bring (something) to a central point or under a single control; centered; centralized

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