NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Fri. 6 October, 2023

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

Letters: f  a  i  l  o  r  w

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

AF

  1. AF4 β€” a long distance; as in abroad, afield; country mile; far cry; long haul sounds like ajar, far
  2. AF6 β€” a brief romantic relationship; a social gathering; something produced by physical or intellectual effort; amour; fling sounds like aware, fair, fare, unfair
  3. AF4 β€” sounds like arrow

AI

  1. AI7 β€” as in air, wind; blast; blow; flurry; gale sounds like flow, inflow, outflow
  2. AI7 β€” sounds like aerial, broil, careful, earful, foil

AL

  1. AL7 β€”
  2. AL5 β€” having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; antisocial; asocial; buttoned-up; cold

FA

  1. FA4 β€” to stop functioning; to be unsuccessful; to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of; break; break down sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
  2. FA4 β€” not stormy or cloudy; marked by justice, honesty, and freedom from bias; following or according to the rules; bright; clear sounds like af**, air, bare, bear, care
  3. FA4 β€” to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily; to yield to the control or power of enemy forces; to go to a lower level especially abruptly; slip; stumble sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, feel
  4. FA7 β€” the amount by which something is lessened; to turn away from a straight line or course; abatement; decline; decrease sounds like flaw, flawed, floor, fluff
  5. FA6 β€” not being in a state of use, activity, or employment; as in plow, break; dead; dormant; free sounds like fellow, flow, follow, furlough, shallow
  6. FA5 β€” sounds like borrow, follow, morrow, sorrow
  7. FA6 β€” sounds like borrow, follow, morrow, sorrow

FI

  1. FI6 β€” sounds like bilious, cereal, ciliate, fearful
  2. FI4 β€” 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

FL

  1. FL5 β€” to move or cause to move with a striking motion; to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; as in bludgeon, cudgel; beat; flap sounds like fail, frail
  2. FL5 β€” a special and usually inborn ability; aptitude; bent; endowment; faculty sounds like blare, fair, fare, glare
  3. FL4 β€” something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; as in hamartia; blemish; blight sounds like claw
  4. FL5 β€” the surface upon which a body of water lies; to cause an unpleasant surprise for; to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected; bed; bottom sounds like for, fore, four, lore
  5. FL5 β€” green leaves or plants; foliage; green; greenery; herbage
  6. FL6 β€” of or relating to flowers; flowered; flowery sounds like laurel
  7. FL4 β€” to move in a stream; to move or proceed smoothly and readily; as in flood, overflow; pour; roll sounds like blow, fallow, fellow

FO

  1. FO4 β€” as in filly, colt; colt; filly; gelding; mare sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, fail
  2. FO4 β€” 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
  3. FO5 β€” as in quarto; quarto; hardback; hardcover; paper sounds like polio
  4. FO6 β€” to come after in time; to go after or on the track of; to act according to the commands of; postdate; succeed sounds like fallow, fellow, flow, furlough, hollow
  5. FO8 β€” a state of noisy, confused activity; ado; alarums and excursions; ballyhoo; blather sounds like afar, euphoric, far, farce, farm
  6. FO4 β€” 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
  7. FO4 β€” a meeting featuring a group discussion; a place or opportunity for communicating ideas and information; an assembly of persons for the administration of justice; colloquies; conferences sounds like aura, fauna, flora
  8. FO4 β€” a member of the human race; baby; being; bird; bod sounds like fail, fall, feel, fell, file

FR

  1. FR5 β€” easily broken; easily injured without careful handling; lacking bodily strength; breakable; delicate sounds like fail, flail, phrase, rail, trail
  2. FR5 β€” as in monk, mendicant; brother; mendicant; monastic; monk sounds like drier, dryer, fire, flier, flyer
  3. FR5 β€” a strip of fabric gathered or pleated on one edge and used as trimming; something adding to pleasure or comfort but not absolutely necessary; something that decorates or beautifies; flounce; furbelow sounds like drill, fill, grill, grille, rill

LO

  1. LO4 β€” to spend time doing nothing; as in reason, noodle; bum; chill; dally sounds like laugh, leaf, life
  2. LO5 β€” sounds like aloof, alpha, goof, goofy, hoof

OF

  1. OF5 β€” discarded or useless material; chaff; deadwood; debris; dreck sounds like waffle

RA

  1. RA6 β€” sounds like caffeine, hafta, mafia, taffy

RI

  1. RI4 β€” a distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play); interpretation; take; variation sounds like rear, reef
  2. RI8 β€” discarded or useless material; people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class; chaff; deadwood; debris sounds like refrain, refresh

RO

  1. RO4 β€” a raised covering over something for decoration or protection; the place where one lives; to provide with living quarters or shelter; awning; canopy sounds like goof, hoof, poof, p**, reef

WA

  1. WA4 β€” a young person who is thin and appears homeless or impoverished; gamine; guttersnipe; ragamuffin; urchin sounds like chafe, safe

WO

  1. WO4 β€” a man given to seducing women; a person who habitually preys upon others; to swallow or eat greedily; Casanova; Don Juan
  2. WO4 β€” an immaterial thing upon which something else rests; base; basis; bedrock; bottom sounds like goof, hoof, poof, roof, waif

afar, affair, afro, airflow, airfoil, alfalfa, aloof, fail, fair, fall, falloff, fallow, farro, farrow, filial, fill, flail, flair, flaw, floor, flora, floral, flow, foal, foil, folio, follow, foofaraw, fool, fora, fowl, frail, friar, frill, loaf, loofa, offal, raffia, riff, riffraff, roof, waif, wolf, woof