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

4. 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
5. DI6 — as in fasted; fasted sounds like cheated, dotted, heated, seated
6. DI5 — a character used to represent a mathematical value; figure; integer; number; numeral sounds like bigot, billet, dearest, deduct, defeat
7. 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

9. 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updating; to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; redraft; revamp
10. 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

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

FE

14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. FE5 — having an unpleasant smell; foul; frowsty; frowsy; funky sounds like fitted

FI

19. FI6 — to make jerky or restless movements; fiddle; jerk; jig; jiggle sounds like widget
20. FI8 — to make jerky or restless movements; to make jerky or restless movements; fiddled; jerked; jigged sounds like digital, limited
21. FI7 — making jerky or restless movements; antsy; squirmy; twitchy; wiggly sounds like affinity, digit, rickety
22. FI5 — as in one, hundred; C-note; fin; five; fiver sounds like nifty, shifty
23. 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

25. 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
26. 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

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

TE

30. TE5 — sounds like heady, ready, steady, tarry, tidy
31. 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

33. 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
34. TI5 — sounds like guided
35. 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
36. 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
37. 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
38. 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

40. YE4 — sounds like jetty, petty