NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 8 August, 2022

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

Letters: y  a  f  g  i  r  t

  • Total Answers: 22
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AF

  1. 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 — 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

GR

  1. GR7 — to give in to (a desire); to give satisfaction to synonyms—cater (to), humor, indulge, agree (with), content sounds like—ratify

  2. GR4 — of the color ; causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer synonyms—argentine, ish, leaden, pewter, silver sounds like—fray, gay

  3. GR6 — as in unflinching, resolute; as in earthy, sandy; as in vivid, graphic synonyms—determined, firm, game, plucky, resolute sounds like—pretty

IF

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

IT

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

RA

  1. 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

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

  3. 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

TR

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

affray, airy, array, arty, fairy, fatty, fifty, fratty, fray, friary, gratify, gray, gritty, iffy, itty, rarity, ratify, ratty, taffy, tarry, tatty, tray