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

AI

5. AI7 — as in air, wind; blast; blow; flurry; gale sounds like flow, inflow, outflow
6. AI7 — sounds like aerial, broil, careful, earful, foil

AL

8. AL7 —
9. AL5 — having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; antisocial; asocial; buttoned-up; cold

FA

11. FA4 — 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
12. FA4 — 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
13. FA4 — 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
14. FA7 — 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
15. FA6 — not being in a state of use, activity, or employment; as in plow, break; dead; dormant; free sounds like fellow, flow, follow, furlough, shallow
16. FA5 — sounds like borrow, follow, morrow, sorrow
17. FA6 — sounds like borrow, follow, morrow, sorrow

FI

19. FI6 — sounds like bilious, cereal, ciliate, fearful
20. 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

FL

22. FL5 — 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
23. FL5 — a special and usually inborn ability; aptitude; bent; endowment; faculty sounds like blare, fair, fare, glare
24. FL4 — 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
25. FL5 — 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
26. FL5 — green leaves or plants; foliage; green; greenery; herbage
27. FL6 — of or relating to flowers; flowered; flowery sounds like laurel
28. FL4 — to move in a stream; to move or proceed smoothly and readily; as in flood, overflow; pour; roll sounds like blow, fallow, fellow

FO

30. FO4 — as in filly, colt; colt; filly; gelding; mare sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, fail
31. 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
32. FO5 — as in quarto; quarto; hardback; hardcover; paper sounds like polio
33. FO6 — 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
34. FO8 — a state of noisy, confused activity; ado; alarums and excursions; ballyhoo; blather sounds like afar, euphoric, far, farce, farm
35. 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
36. FO4 — 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
37. FO4 — a member of the human race; baby; being; bird; bod sounds like fail, fall, feel, fell, file

FR

39. FR5 — easily broken; easily injured without careful handling; lacking bodily strength; breakable; delicate sounds like fail, flail, phrase, rail, trail
40. FR5 — as in monk, mendicant; brother; mendicant; monastic; monk sounds like drier, dryer, fire, flier, flyer
41. FR5 — 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

43. LO4 — to spend time doing nothing; as in reason, noodle; bum; chill; dally sounds like laugh, leaf, life
44. LO5 — sounds like aloof, alpha, goof, goofy, hoof

OF

46. OF5 — discarded or useless material; chaff; deadwood; debris; dreck sounds like waffle

RA

48. RA6 — sounds like caffeine, hafta, mafia, taffy

RI

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

RO

53. RO4 — 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

55. WA4 — a young person who is thin and appears homeless or impoverished; gamine; guttersnipe; ragamuffin; urchin sounds like chafe, safe

WO

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