NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 22 August, 2022

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

Letters: f  a  g  i  m  n  r

  • Total Answers: 34
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AF

  1. AF4 — a long distance synonyms—country mile, far cry, long haul, mile sounds like—ajar, far

  2. AF6 — a brief romantic relationship; a social gathering; something produced by physical or intellectual effort synonyms—amour, fling, love, love **, romance sounds like—aware, fair, faire, fare, unfair

  3. AF6 — to state as a fact usually forcefully; to state clearly and strongly synonyms—allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow sounds like—firm

  4. AF9 — to state as a fact usually forcefully; to state clearly and strongly synonyms—alleging, asserting, averring, avouching, avowing sounds like—offering, suffering, unnerving

FA

  1. FA4 — not stormy or cloudy; marked by justice, honesty, and freedom from bias; following or according to the rules synonyms—bright, clear, cloudless, sunny, sunshiny sounds like—af**, air, bare, bear, care

  2. FA4 — a long sharp tooth: such as; one by which an animal's prey is seized and held or torn; one of the long hollow or grooved and often erectile teeth of a venomous snake sounds like—bang, dang, gang, hang, pang

  3. FA7 — as in igniting, triggering; as in swinging, swaying synonyms—igniting, inflaming, kindling, triggering, arousing sounds like—fining, tanning

  4. FA6 — a fine meal of vegetable matter (such as cereal grains) used chiefly for puddings or as a breakfast cereal; any of various powdery or mealy substances sounds like—area, ferried, ferry

  5. FA6 — to meet one's day-to-day needs; to move forward along a course; to take a meal synonyms—coping, doing, getting along, getting by, getting on sounds like—bearing, caring, chairing, daring, derring

  6. FA4 — a piece of land and its buildings used to grow crops or raise livestock synonyms—estate, **stead, grange, ranch sounds like—arm, charm, form, harm

  7. FA7 — the science or occupation of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock synonyms—agriculture, husbandry sounds like—arming, charming

FI

  1. FI6 —

  2. FI6 — to establish or apply as a charge or penalty synonyms—assessing, charging, exacting, imposing, laying sounds like—dining, shining

  3. FI6 — a directed propelling of a missile by a firearm or artillery piece synonyms—blasting, discharge, shot

  4. FI4 — a commercial or industrial activity or organization synonyms—business, company, concern, enterprise, establishment sounds like—af**, fame, fern, foam, fur

  5. FI7 — to become physically firm or solid synonyms—concrete, congeal, freeze, harden, indurate sounds like—arming, beaming, bombing, booming, burning

FR

  1. FR4 — sounds like—brag, drag, flag, rag

  2. FR8 — sounds like—flagging

  3. FR7 — the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form synonyms—architecture, armature, cadre, configuration, edifice sounds like—flaming, phrasing

  4. FR5 — as in monk, mendicant synonyms—brother, mendicant, monastic, monk, oblate sounds like—drier, dryer, fire, flier, flyer

  5. FR8 — having a border in common synonyms—abutting, adjacent, adjoining, bordering, conterminous sounds like—bridging, drilling, drinking, fishing, fitting

GA

  1. GA4 — a socially improper or unsuitable act or remark; an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy synonyms—familiarity, faux pas, **e, impropriety, indiscretion sounds like—calf, chaff, goof

GR

  1. GR7 — Walter Burley 1876—1937 American architect

IN

  1. IN6 — lacking bodily strength synonyms—asthenic, debilitated, delicate, down-and-out, effete

  2. IN9 —

  3. IN10 — as in violating, breaching; as in invading, intruding synonyms—breaching, breaking, violating, erring, falling sounds like—engraving, engrossing, upbringing

MA

  1. MA5 — a group involved in secret or criminal activities synonyms—cabal, conspiracy, crew, gang, mob sounds like—aria, coffee, toffee

MI

  1. MI4 — the feeling of being offended or resentful after a slight or indignity synonyms—dudgeon, huff, offense, peeve, pique sounds like—mere, muff, myth, riff, tiff

  2. MI7 — as in exasperating, irritating synonyms—affronting, aggravating, annoying, burning (up), crossing

NA

  1. NA4 — lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment synonyms—aw-shucks, dewy, dewy-eyed, green, ingenuous sounds like—chafe, knife, safe, waif

RA

  1. RA6 — a large pinnate-leaved palm (Raphia farinifera synonym R. ruffia) of Madagascar and tropical Africa valued for the fiber obtained from its petiole sounds like—caffeine, hafta, mafia, taffy

RI

  1. RI4 — a distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play) synonyms—interpretation, take, variation sounds like—rear, reef

  2. RI7 — to perform, deliver, or make use of a riff sounds like—roofing

  3. RI8 — discarded or useless material; people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class synonyms—chaff, deadwood, debris, dreck, dross sounds like—refrain, refresh

afar, affair, affirm, affirming, fair, fang, fanning, farina, faring, farm, farming, fifing, fining, firing, firm, firming, frag, fragging, framing, friar, fringing, gaff, griffin, infirm, infirming, infringing, mafia, miff, miffing, naif, raffia, riff, riffing, riffraff