NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 24 October, 2022

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

Letters: y  a  f  i  n  r  t

  • Total Answers: 37
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! đŸ€Ł

AF

  1. AF8 — a habitual attraction to some activity or thing; the fact or state of having something in common synonyms—affection, aptitude, bent, bias, bone sounds like—ability, acidity, agility, amenity, finicky

  2. AF6 — a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people synonyms—brawl, broil, donnybrook, fracas, fray sounds like—fray

AI

  1. AI4 — resembling air in lightness; open to the free circulation of air; located at a greater height than average or usual synonyms—ethereal, fluffy, gossamer, gossamery, light sounds like—any, area, berry, brie, bury

AR

  1. AR5 — a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; dressy clothing synonyms—assemblage, band, bank, batch, battery sounds like—awry, bay, day, earl, earn

  2. AR4 — artillery sounds like—he, p

FA

  1. FA5 — an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers synonyms—brownie, dwarf, elf, faerie, fay sounds like—airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

  2. FA5 — the part of the body upon which someone sits synonyms—backside, behind, booty, bottom, breech sounds like—canny, funny, nanny, phoney, phony

  3. FA5 — containing animal fat especially in unusual amounts synonyms—adipose sounds like—catty, chatty, natty, patty, ratty

FI

  1. FI5 — as in one, hundred synonyms—C-note, fin, five, fiver, hundred sounds like—nifty, shifty

FR

  1. FR6 — sounds like—fatty, ratty

  2. FR4 — a forceful effort to reach a goal or objective; a physical dispute between opposing individuals or groups; a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people synonyms—battle, fight, scrabble, struggle, throes sounds like—foray, gray, grey

  3. FR6 — a residence for men under religious vows synonyms—abbey, cloister, hermitage, monastery, priory

IF

  1. IF4 — as in questionable, uncertain synonyms—debatable, disputable, doubtable, doubtful, problematic sounds like—eerie, fee, itchy, j**

IN

  1. IN7 — a foolish act or idea; lack of good sense or judgment synonyms—absurdity, asininity, bĂȘtise, fatuity, folly

  2. IN8 — the part of an army that has soldiers who fight on foot synonyms—ranks, regulars, soldiers, troopers, troops

  3. IN8 — endless time synonyms—eternity, everlasting, foreverness, perpetuity sounds like—affinity

IT

  1. IT4 — very small in size synonyms—atomic, bitsy, b, infinitesimal, little b sounds like—city, d**, eerie, eighty, iffy

NA

  1. NA5 — a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children synonyms—babysitter, dry nurse, nurse, nursemaid, nurser sounds like—canny, fanny

  2. NA4 — not any : not one sounds like—airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

  3. NA5 — being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance synonyms—dapper, sharp, smart, snappy, spruce sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, knotty, nutty

NI

  1. NI5 — of the very best kind synonyms—A-OK, A1, awesome, bang-up, banner sounds like—shifty, fifty

  2. NI5 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a stupid person synonyms—berk, booby, charlie, cuckoo, ding-a-ling sounds like—guinea, nanny, tinny

RA

  1. RA5 — marked by or abounding with rain synonyms—pouring, precipitating, stormy, wet sounds like—b*, g*, reign, rein, zany

  2. RA6 — something strange or unusual that is an object of interest; something that is different from what is ordinary or expected synonyms—curio, curiosity, exotic, objet d'art, oddity sounds like—parity, verity

  3. RA6 — to give official acceptance of as satisfactory synonyms—accredit, approbate, approve, authorize, clear sounds like—g**

  4. RA5 — showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; worn or torn into or as if into rags; easily irritated or annoyed synonyms—beat-up, bombed-out, dilapidated, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

TA

  1. TA5 — excessive praise synonyms—adulation, blarney, butter, flannel, flattery sounds like—toffee

  2. TA5 — a temporary residing as another's guest synonyms—sojourn, stay, visit sounds like—airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

  3. TA5 — showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect synonyms—beat-up, bombed-out, dilapidated, dog-eared, down-at-the-heels sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

TI

  1. TI7 — Charles Lewis 1812—1902 American jeweler sounds like—tyranny

  2. TI5 — as in thin, peeping synonyms—peeping, thin, high-pitched, piping, screeching sounds like—guinea, tony, tourney

  3. TI4 — very small in size synonyms—atomic, bitsy, bitty, infinitesimal, itty-bitty sounds like—shiny, tony, tourney

TR

  1. TR4 — as in plate, bowl synonyms—bowl, casserole, charger, cup, plate sounds like—fray, gray, grey, pray, prey

  2. TR7 — a group of three synonyms—threesome, triad, trifecta, trio, triple sounds like—affinity, rickety

TY

  1. TY7 — a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power synonyms—absolutism, autarchy, authoritarianism, autocracy, Caesarism sounds like—eerily, irony, litany, tearfully, timpani

  2. TY6 — a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way synonyms—caesar, despot, dictator, fĂŒhrer, oppressor sounds like—torrent

YA

  1. YA4 — a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally; a work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel synonyms—anecdote, story, tale, narrative, novelette sounds like—barn, darn

affinity, affray, airy, array, arty, fairy, fanny, fatty, fifty, fratty, fray, friary, iffy, inanity, infantry, infinity, itty, nanny, nary, natty, nifty, ninny, rainy, rarity, ratify, ratty, taffy, tarry, tatty, tiffany, tinny, tiny, tray, trinity, tyranny, tyrant, yarn