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

Letters: f  d  e  i  l  o  v

• Total Answers: 44
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

DE

1. DE6 — 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
2. DE6 — a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage; to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable; to treat (a sacred place or object) shamefully or with great disrespect; canyon; col sounds like duffel
3. DE7 — as in polluted, tainted; to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable; to treat (a sacred place or object) shamefully or with great disrespect; contaminated; germy sounds like duffel, muffled, refined, ruffled
4. DE7 — 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

DO

6. DO4 — to rid oneself of (a garment); to declare enthusiastic approval of; douse; peel (off); put off sounds like daub, dawn, deaf, off
7. DO6 — to rid oneself of (a garment); to rid oneself of (a garment); to declare enthusiastic approval of; doused; peeled (off) sounds like daft, dart, deft, soft, waft

ED

9. ED7 — 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

FE

11. FE4 — 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
12. FE4 — to have a vague awareness of; to come into bodily contact with (something) so as to perceive a slight pressure on the skin; to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it; perceive; scent sounds like deal, eel, fail, fall, field
13. FE5 — sounds like allied, allowed, allude, aloud, amid
14. FE4 — to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall; to bring down by cutting; to deprive of life; bowl (down or over); down sounds like bell, cell, dell, fail, fair
15. FE6 — to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall; to bring down by cutting; to deprive of life; bowled (down or over); downed sounds like failed, field, filled, foiled

FI

17. FI6 — language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value; to make jerky or restless movements; applesauce; balderdash sounds like middle, riddle
18. FI7 — to make jerky or restless movements; to rob by the use of trickery or threats; to make jerky or restless movements; fidgeted; jerked sounds like riddled
19. FI4 — a region of activity, knowledge, or influence; area; arena; bailiwick; barony sounds like beef, chief, feat, fee, feed
20. FI5 — a small area of usually open land; a region of activity, knowledge, or influence; a part or portion having no fixed boundaries; clearing; ground sounds like failed, feed, feel, feeler, felled
21. FI7 — to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently; to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently; addressed; contended (with); coped (with) sounds like folded
22. FI4 — sounds like knife, life, rife, wife
23. FI5 — sounds like gift, lift, miffed, rift, shift
24. FI4 — to make smooth by friction; to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group; a series of persons or things arranged one behind another; buff; grind sounds like aisle, bile, fail, fall, feel
25. FI5 — to make smooth by friction; to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group; to make smooth by friction; buffed; ground sounds like child, failed, felled, foiled, fold
26. FI4 — to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained; to close up so that no empty spaces remain; to do what is required by the terms of; brim; charge sounds like bill, chill, dill, fail, fall
27. FI6 — containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible; to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained; to close up so that no empty spaces remain; brimful; brimming sounds like billed, build, chilled, failed, feared
28. FI4 — as in one, ten; of the very best kind; as in department store, dime store; C-note; fifty sounds like arrive, chive, dive, hive, jive
29. FI8 — sounds like fourfold

FL

31. FL4 — to cease to be visible; to get free from a dangerous or confining situation; to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening; dematerialized; disappeared sounds like bled, fed
32. FL4 — to cease to be visible; to get free from a dangerous or confining situation; to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening; dematerialize; disappear sounds like alley, awfully, early, fee, filly
33. FL5 — to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; to get free from a dangerous or confining situation; to proceed or move quickly; aviate; glide sounds like allied, fried, glide
34. FL4 — sounds like blow, fallow, fellow
35. FL5 — a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; to cover with a flood; a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms; alluvion; bath sounds like blood
36. FL7 — as in inundated, drowned; to cover with a flood; to cover with a flood; deluged; drowned sounds like bloodied, faded, folded, founded, funded

FO

38. FO4 — to prevent from achieving a goal; something or someone that is different from another especially in a pleasing way; baffle; balk; beat sounds like boil, coil, fail, fall, feel
39. FO6 — to prevent from achieving a goal; to prevent from achieving a goal; baffled; balked; beat sounds like boiled, failed, felled, field, filled
40. FO4 — to lay one part over or against another part of; to be unsuccessful; a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially; double; bomb sounds like bold, cold, failed, felled, field
41. FO6 — to lay one part over or against another part of; to be unsuccessful; to lay one part over or against another part of; doubled; bombed sounds like molded
42. FO5 — as in quarto; quarto; hardback; hardcover; paper sounds like polio
43. FO4 — substances intended to be eaten; something that maintains or stimulates the intellect; a series of types of living things in which each one uses the next lower member of the series as a source of food; bread; chow sounds like fad, fade, fed, feed, feud
44. FO6 — a person who enjoys and cares about food very much; connoisseur; dilettante; bon vivant; epicure sounds like moody
45. FO4 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a person formerly kept in a royal or noble household to amuse with jests and pranks; a person with a strong and habitual liking for something; berk; booby sounds like cool, fail, fall, feel, fell
46. FO6 — to cause to believe what is untrue; to make jokes; to cause to believe what is untrue; bamboozled; beguiled sounds like cooled, failed, felled, field, filled

LI

48. LI4 — a history of a person's life; a member of the human race; active strength of body or mind; bio; biography sounds like knife, laugh, leaf

OF

50. OF5 — to put to death deliberately; to put to death deliberately; assassinated; bumped off; croaked sounds like tuft, upped

VI

52. VI8 — to make untrue and harmful statements about; to make untrue and harmful statements about; aspersed; blackened; calumniated sounds like mollified, nullified, verified
53. VI8 — to give life, vigor, or spirit to; to give life, vigor, or spirit to; amped (up); animated; braced