NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 22 March, 2023

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

Letters: t  d  e  f  g  i  y

  • Total Answers: 30
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

DE

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

  2. DE5 — a being having superhuman powers and control over a particular part of life or the world; the being worshipped as the creator and ruler of the universe; the quality or state of being divine; divinity; god sounds like dainty, diet, dieter, dirty, ditty

DI

  1. DI4 — the things that a person or animal eats considered as a whole; as in slimming, nonfattening; as in fast; nourishment; nurture sounds like riot

  2. DI6 — as in fasted; fasted sounds like cheated, dotted, heated, seated

  3. DI5 — a character used to represent a mathematical value; figure; integer; number; numeral sounds like bigot, billet, dearest, deduct, defeat

  4. DI5 — a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment; as in shopping bag, garment bag; as in shopping bags, garment bags; ballad; jingle sounds like city, deter, duty, kitty, pity

ED

  1. ED4 — to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; redraft; revamp

  2. ED6 — to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating; redrafted; revamped sounds like dotted, oedipal

EF

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

FE

  1. FE4 — 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

  2. FE4 — 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

  3. FE5 — 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

  4. FE5 — having an unpleasant smell; foul; frowsty; frowsy; funky sounds like fitted

FI

  1. FI6 — to make jerky or restless movements; fiddle; jerk; jig; jiggle sounds like widget

  2. FI8 — to make jerky or restless movements; to make jerky or restless movements; fiddled; jerked; jigged sounds like digital, limited

  3. FI7 — making jerky or restless movements; antsy; squirmy; twitchy; wiggly sounds like affinity, digit, rickety

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

  5. FI6 — 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

GI

  1. GI4 — something given to someone without expectation of a return; a special and usually inborn ability; to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; bestowal; comp sounds like guilt, lift, miffed, rift, shift

  2. GI6 — as in blessed, privileged; as in talented, inspired; to furnish freely or naturally with some power, quality, or attribute; blessed; favored sounds like fitted, knitted, listed

IT

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

TE

  1. TE5 — sounds like heady, ready, steady, tarry, tidy

  2. TE4 — feeling or showing anger; subjected to and reacting with irritation; as in raged, vituperated; angered; angry sounds like bead, cede, deed, feed, heed

TI

  1. TI4 — a prevailing or general movement or inclination; a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; current; direction; drift sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied

  2. TI5 — sounds like guided

  3. TI6 — being clean and in good order; as in picked up, uncluttered; to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff; antiseptic; bandbox sounds like bodied, busied, deed, divvied, giddy

  4. TI4 — being clean and in good order; of a size greater than average of its kind; sufficiently large in size, amount, or number to merit attention; antiseptic; bandbox sounds like teddy

  5. TI4 — as in bound, attached; to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; to produce something equal to (as in quality or value); attached; bound sounds like bide, chide, guide, hide, lied

  6. TI4 — 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

YE

  1. YE4 — sounds like jetty, petty

deft, deity, diet, dieted, digit, ditty, edit, edited, effete, feet, fete, feted, fetid, fidget, fidgeted, fidgety, fifty, fitted, gift, gifted, itty, teddy, teed, tide, tided, tidied, tidy, tied, tiff, yeti