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

Letters: i  a  c  f  l  n  u

• Total Answers: 30
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

1. AC6 — sounds like occasion
2. AC4 — sounds like occur, sky

AN

4. AN6 — sounds like newly

CA

6. CA7 — the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value; the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value; arithmetics; calculations; computations

CI

8. CI5 — sounds like psyllium, sillier, silly

CL

10. CL5 — a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice; something (as a close contest) that induces much suspense as to its outcome; as in resident, resider; barranca; bluff
11. CL6 — a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured; an intensive educational or training program; hospital; infirmary; medical center sounds like chronic
12. CL8 — having or showing a lack of emotion or interest; dispassionate; objective; impersonal; professional sounds like pinnacle
13. CL9 — a medical professional who works directly with patients rather than in a laboratory or as a researcher; attending; hospitalist; croaker; doc sounds like coalition, commission, condition, corinthian, emission

FA

15. FA6 — sounds like racial
16. 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
17. FA8 — conceived or made without regard for reason or reality; not real and existing only in the imagination; absurd; bizarre; crazy sounds like cancel, forceful, fungible, merciful
18. FA6 — sounds like antic, frantic, manic, panic, phonic

FI

20. FI6 — sounds like bilious, cereal, ciliate, fearful
21. 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
22. FI5 — following all others of the same kind in order or time; having been established and usually not subject to change; as in semifinal, play-off; bottommost; closing sounds like fennel, funnel, vinyl
23. FI9 — of or relating to money, banking, or investments; dollars-and-cents; fiscal; monetary; pecuniary
24. FI6 — sounds like lineal

FL

26. 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

FU

28. FU7 — to do what is required by the terms of; to carry through (as a process) to completion; answer; complete; comply (with) sounds like footfall, foothill

IL

30. IL5 — sounds like black, bleak, clique, elite, flak

IN

32. IN6 — sounds like fill, refill

LA

34. LA4 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like lick
35. LA6 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like cul, cull, local, loyal, lull
36. LA4 — to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction; to occupy a place or location; to remain out of sight; borne; extended sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
37. LA5 — a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot

LI

39. LI5 — sounds like black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack

NA

41. NA4 — lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; as in ingenue, greenhorn; aw-shucks; dewy; dewy-eyed sounds like chafe, knife, safe, waif
42. NA4 — to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to make final, definite, or beyond dispute; to reveal the true nature of; bang; bash sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

NI

44. NI6 — sounds like basic, basin, casing, chasten, evasive