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! 🤣

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

3. 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

4. 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
5. AR4 — artillery sounds like—he, p

FA

6. 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
7. FA5 — the part of the body upon which someone sits synonyms—backside, behind, booty, bottom, breech sounds like—canny, funny, nanny, phoney, phony
8. FA5 — containing animal fat especially in unusual amounts synonyms—adipose sounds like—catty, chatty, natty, patty, ratty

FI

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

FR

10. FR6 — sounds like—fatty, ratty
11. 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
12. FR6 — a residence for men under religious vows synonyms—abbey, cloister, hermitage, monastery, priory

IF

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

IN

14. IN7 — a foolish act or idea; lack of good sense or judgment synonyms—absurdity, asininity, bêtise, fatuity, folly
15. IN8 — the part of an army that has soldiers who fight on foot synonyms—ranks, regulars, soldiers, troopers, troops
16. IN8 — endless time synonyms—eternity, everlasting, foreverness, perpetuity sounds like—affinity

IT

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

NA

18. 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
19. NA4 — not any : not one sounds like—airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
20. NA5 — being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance synonyms—dapper, sharp, smart, snappy, spruce sounds like—catty, chatty, fatty, knotty, nutty

NI

21. NI5 — of the very best kind synonyms—A-OK, A1, awesome, bang-up, banner sounds like—shifty, fifty
22. 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

23. RA5 — marked by or abounding with rain synonyms—pouring, precipitating, stormy, wet sounds like—b*, g*, reign, rein, zany
24. 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
25. RA6 — to give official acceptance of as satisfactory synonyms—accredit, approbate, approve, authorize, clear sounds like—g**
26. 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

27. TA5 — excessive praise synonyms—adulation, blarney, butter, flannel, flattery sounds like—toffee
28. TA5 — a temporary residing as another's guest synonyms—sojourn, stay, visit sounds like—airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy
29. 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

30. TI7 — Charles Lewis 1812—1902 American jeweler sounds like—tyranny
31. TI5 — as in thin, peeping synonyms—peeping, thin, high-pitched, piping, screeching sounds like—guinea, tony, tourney
32. TI4 — very small in size synonyms—atomic, bitsy, bitty, infinitesimal, itty-bitty sounds like—shiny, tony, tourney

TR

33. TR4 — as in plate, bowl synonyms—bowl, casserole, charger, cup, plate sounds like—fray, gray, grey, pray, prey
34. TR7 — a group of three synonyms—threesome, triad, trifecta, trio, triple sounds like—affinity, rickety

TY

35. 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
36. TY6 — a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way synonyms—caesar, despot, dictator, führer, oppressor sounds like—torrent

YA

37. 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