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

Letters: n  f  i  o  r  t  u

• Total Answers: 42
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

FI

1. FI6 — sounds like pinto

FO

3. FO4 — a point or place at which something is invented or provided; cradle; fountain; fountainhead; origin sounds like faint, feint, want
4. FO5 — sounds like count, faint, feint, mount

FR

6. FR5 — being at or in the part of something opposite the back part; a forward part or surface; a display of emotion or behavior that is insincere or intended to deceive; anterior; fore sounds like af*, aren't, brunt, errant, grunt
7. FR8 — the state of being actual or complete; accomplishment; achievement; actuality; actualization sounds like fission, physician, tuition

FU

9. FU5 — as in mattress, pallet; as in mattresses, pallets; bedstead; mattress; pallet sounds like fatten

IN

11. IN4 — a report of recent events or facts not previously known; 411; advice(s); gen; information
12. IN4 — in addition to what has been said; to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance; additionally; again sounds like ensue, onto, unto
13. IN5 — a short section (as of a book) that leads to or explains the main part; exordium; foreword; introduction; preamble sounds like encroach, engross, entice, entire, entre
14. IN6 — to have a clear idea of; appreciate; apprehend; assimilate; behold
15. IN9 — an innate sense of what is true or what will happen; feel; insight; instinct; foreknowledge
16. IN5 — as in immure; immure; bury; entomb; hearse

IR

18. IR4 — as in sand, grit; not showing weakness or uncertainty; as in tie, secure; backbone; fortitude sounds like burn, burne, churn, durn, earn

NI

20. NI5 — sounds like gyro, knight, knightly, maestro, metro

NO

22. NO4 — sounds like afar, ajar, are, bar, car
23. NO4 — the middle of the day; the highest part or point; as in daily, diurnal; high noon; lunch time sounds like boon, dune, goon, knew, known
24. NO4 — sounds like gory, naughty
25. NO6 — small useful items; a sudden impulsive and apparently unmotivated idea or action; an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; etceteras; novelties sounds like lotion, motion, nation, ocean, potion
26. NO4 — as in count noun, proper noun; as in count noun, proper noun; as in common noun, proper noun; nominal; substantive sounds like down, gown, known, nine, nun

NU

28. NU9 —

ON

30. ON5 — sounds like undone
31. ON4 — as in hit (upon), pitch (upon); as in hit (upon), pitched (upon); as in hitting (upon), pitching (upon); chance (upon); encounter sounds like into, unto

OU

33. OU6 — to go beyond the limit of; break; exceed; outreach; overpass

RO

35. RO6 — sounds like protein

RU

37. RU4 — to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts; to bring destruction to (something) through violent action; to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of; bankrupt; break sounds like rayon
38. RU6 — to drive or force out; to get free from a dangerous or confining situation; to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening; banish; boot (out) sounds like cutoff, rough, turnoff, writeoff
39. RU6 — as in throw out, kick out; a device to measure time; to make complete use of; cast out; dismiss sounds like redoubt
40. RU4 — a living thing much smaller than others of its kind; diminutive; dwarf; midget; mite sounds like aren't, b**, bunt, errant, front

TI

42. TI4 — a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; to give color or a different color to; cast; color; hue sounds like hint, lint, mint, s**, taint

TO

44. TO4 — a lower limb of an animal; a portion of a trip; pin; lap; stage sounds like attune, boon, dune, goon, loon
45. TO4 — to cause (something) to separate into jagged pieces by violently pulling at it; to separate or remove by forceful pulling; to proceed or move quickly; rent; ribboned sounds like born, corn, horn, mourn, shorn
46. TO7 — sounds like corny, courtly, crony, hormone, martini

TR

48. TR6 — sounds like brighten, frighten, tighten, titan

TU

50. TU7 — the act or process of imparting knowledge or skills to another; education; instruction; schooling; teaching sounds like fruition, munition, musician
51. TU4 — to move (something) in a curved or circular path on or as if on an axis; to change the course or direction of (something); to change one's course or direction; pivot; revolve sounds like burn, burne, churn, durn, earn
52. TU7 — as in corner; to cause to feel disgust; to change one's course or direction; corner; decline sounds like runoff, takeoff, tipoff, tourney, trough
53. TU7 — as in stage, buggy; to leave one's bed; to remove the dirt from; barouche; brougham sounds like burnout

UN

55. UN5 — lacking qualities (as knowledge, skill, or ability) required to do a job; not appropriate for a particular occasion or situation; inapt; incapable; incompetent sounds like acquit, admit, annoying, befit, fit
56. UN5 — the act or an instance of joining two or more things into one; an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection; the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters); combination; combining sounds like canyon, minion, onion, re*
57. UN4 — as in item, single; as in list price, face value; as in list prices, face values; entity; item
58. UN6 — sounds like s**
59. UN4 — sounds like anew, into, onto