NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 6 September, 2022

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

Letters: t  f  g  h  i  l  y

  • Total Answers: 25
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

FI

  1. FI5 — a group of secret sympathizers or supporters of an enemy that engage in espionage or sabotage within defense lines or national borders

  2. FI5 — as in one, hundred synonyms—C-note, fin, five, fiver, hundred sounds like—nifty, shifty

  3. FI5 — to oppose (someone) in physical conflict; to strive to reduce or eliminate; to engage in a contest synonyms—battle, clash (with), combat, scrimmage (with), skirmish (with) sounds like—bite, byte, cite, fat, fate

  4. FI5 — foul matter that mars the purity or cleanliness of something; the quality or state of being obscene synonyms—crud, dirt, grime, gunk, muck

  5. FI6 — depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society; not clean synonyms—bawdy, blue, coarse, crude, dirty

  6. FI5 — meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation; being in a state of fitness for some experience or action; capable of or suitable for being used for a particular purpose synonyms—applicable, appropriate, apt, becoming, befitting

FL

  1. FL6 — travel through the air by the use of wings synonyms—flying sounds like—alight, blight, fight

  2. FL7 — easily excited by nature; lacking in seriousness or maturity synonyms—excitable, fiddle-footed, fluttery, high-strung, hyper

  3. FL4 — to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements synonyms—dance, dart, flick, flicker, flirt sounds like—fit

GI

  1. GI4 — something given to someone without expectation of a return; a special and usually inborn ability synonyms—bestowal, comp, donation, donative, fairing sounds like—guilt, lift, miffed, rift, shift

  2. GI4 — as in glitter, bedizenment synonyms—bedizenment, glitter, appliqué, embossment, embroidery sounds like—built, guild, guilty, hilt, jilt

HI

  1. HI9 — to indicate the importance of by centering attention on synonyms—accent, accentuate, emphasize, feature, foreground sounds like—alight, blight, byline, daylight, delight

  2. HI4 — as in shaft synonyms—shaft, bail, bow, loop, crop sounds like—built, gilt, guilt, halt, jilt

IT

  1. IT4 — very small in size synonyms—atomic, bitsy, b, infinitesimal, little b sounds like—city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy

LI

  1. LI4 — to move from a lower to a higher place or position; to move or extend upward; to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep synonyms—boost, crane, elevate, heave, heft sounds like—gift, left, loft, miffed, rift

  2. LI5 — the steady giving off of the form of radiation that makes vision possible; something that provides illumination; a person who is widely known and usually much talked about synonyms—blaze, flare, fluorescence, glare, gleam sounds like—a*, bite, b*, byte, cite

  3. LI7 — without difficulty synonyms—easily, easy, effortlessly, facilely, fluently sounds like—knightly, lately, nightly, rightly, s***

  4. LI4 — the attractive quality of speech or music that rises and falls in a pleasing pattern synonyms—movement, sway, swing, beat, cadence sounds like—built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt

TH

  1. TH5 — as in calf, shin synonyms—calf, drumstick, ham, shank, shin sounds like—awry, buy, die, dye, eye

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. TI5 — not allowing penetration (as by gas, liquid, or light); firmly positioned in place and difficult to dislodge; giving or sharing as little as possible synonyms—impenetrable, impermeable, impervious, fast, firm sounds like—bite, byte, cite, fight, height

  3. TI7 — not allowing penetration (as by gas, liquid, or light); firmly positioned in place and difficult to dislodge; giving or sharing as little as possible synonyms—impenetrable, impermeable, impervious, fast, firm sounds like—knightly, lightly, nightly, rightly, whitely

  4. TI4 — to work by plowing, sowing, and raising crops on synonyms—cultivate, farm, tend sounds like—bill, chill, dill, fill, hill

  5. TI4 — the act of positioning or an instance of being positioned at an angle synonyms—angling, bend, cock, inclination, list sounds like—built, gilt, guilt, hilt, jilt

  6. TI5 — cultivated land : tillage; the state of aggregation of a soil especially in relation to its suitability for crop growth sounds like—filth

fifth, fifty, fight, filth, filthy, fitly, flight, flighty, flit, gift, gilt, highlight, hilt, itty, lift, light, lightly, lilt, thigh, tiff, tight, tightly, till, tilt, tilth