NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Sat. 19 August, 2023

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

Letters: f  a  e  i  l  m  n

  • Total Answers: 44
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

AF

  1. AF6 β€” being on fire; ablaze; afire; alight; blazing sounds like acclaim, flame

AL

  1. AL7 β€”

EL

  1. EL5 β€” having an often mysterious or magical power to attract; alluring; appealing; attractive; bewitching sounds like coffin, delphic, fin, selfish, sellin

FA

  1. FA4 β€” 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
  2. FA7 β€”
  3. FA4 β€” to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily; to yield to the control or power of enemy forces; to go to a lower level especially abruptly; slip; stumble sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, feel
  4. FA6 β€” no longer living; to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily; to yield to the control or power of enemy forces; asleep; breathless sounds like felon, pollen
  5. FA4 β€” the fact or state of being known to the public; overall quality as seen or judged by people in general; individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class; celebrity; notoriety sounds like aim, came, dame
  6. FA8 β€” of or relating to a household or family; domestic; household
  7. FA6 β€” a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number; crunch; dearth; deficiency; deficit sounds like salmon

FE

  1. FE4 β€” to have a vague awareness of; to come into bodily contact with (something) so as to perceive a slight pressure on the skin; to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it; perceive; scent sounds like deal, eel, fail, fall, field
  2. FE6 β€” a small domestic animal known for catching mice; moving easily; cat; house cat; kitty sounds like airline, align, byline, fallen, field
  3. FE4 β€” to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall; to bring down by cutting; to deprive of life; bowl (down or over); down sounds like bell, cell, dell, fail, fair
  4. FE5 β€” an adult male human being; bastard; bloke; buck; cat sounds like phyla
  5. FE6 β€” of, relating to, or marked by qualities traditionally associated with women; an adult female human being; feminine; womanish; womanlike sounds like airmail, fail, flail, frail, mail
  6. FE8 β€” of, relating to, or marked by qualities traditionally associated with women; female; womanish; womanlike; womanly sounds like eminence, eminent, melanin, seminal
  7. FE5 β€” a woman whom men find irresistibly attractive; enchantress; seductress; siren; temptress sounds like fair, fame, fare, firm, foam
  8. FE6 β€” sounds like final, funnel, kennel

FI

  1. FI4 β€” a region of activity, knowledge, or influence; area; arena; bailiwick; barony sounds like beef, chief, feat, fee, feed
  2. FI4 β€” sounds like knife, life, rife, wife
  3. FI4 β€” to make smooth by friction; to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group; a series of persons or things arranged one behind another; buff; grind sounds like aisle, bile, fail, fall, feel
  4. FI8 β€” sounds like colonnade, fallen, fascinate, felon, felony
  5. FI6 β€” sounds like bilious, cereal, ciliate, fearful
  6. FI4 β€” 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
  7. FI4 β€” a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track; the art or business of making a movie; as in videotape; flick; flicker
  8. FI5 β€” 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
  9. FI6 β€” the last part of a process or action; the last part of a process or action; capper; close; closing sounds like canal, faintly, fondly, funnel, funny
  10. FI4 β€” consisting of very small particles; made or done with extreme care and accuracy; being of less than usual width; dusty; floury sounds like dine, fan, fawn, feign, fern
  11. FI6 β€” sounds like lineal

FL

  1. FL5 β€” 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
  2. FL5 β€” a person with whom one is in love; to be on fire especially brightly; to develop suddenly and violently; beloved; darling sounds like blame, claim, fame, frame, lame
  3. FL4 β€” sounds like clan, fan, plan
  4. FL7 β€” excessive praise; language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; adulation; blarney; butter sounds like annul, channel, fennel, final, fragile
  5. FL4 β€” an interesting and often novel device with a practical use; appliance; contraption; contrivance; gadget sounds like alley, awfully, early, fee, filly
  6. FL4 β€” to cease to be visible; to get free from a dangerous or confining situation; to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening; dematerialize; disappear sounds like alley, awfully, early, fee, filly
  7. FL8 β€” a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end; an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value; to rob by the use of trickery or threats; artifice; device sounds like aluminum, blissful, emblem, fearful, fearless

IN

  1. IN6 β€” sounds like fill, refill
  2. IN7 β€” to make angry; to set (something) on fire; anger; enrage; incense

LE

  1. LE4 β€” to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner; as in sheet, slice; as in turn over, dip (into); flip; riffle sounds like beef, chief, laugh

LI

  1. LI4 β€” a history of a person's life; a member of the human race; active strength of body or mind; bio; biography sounds like knife, laugh, leaf
  2. LI8 β€”

MA

  1. MA5 β€” a group involved in secret or criminal activities; cabal; conspiracy; crew; gang sounds like aria, coffee, toffee

MI

  1. MI4 β€” the feeling of being offended or resentful after a slight or indignity; as in exasperate, irritate; dudgeon; huff; offense sounds like mere, muff, myth, riff, tiff

NA

  1. NA4 β€” lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; as in ingenue, greenhorn; aw-shucks; dewy; dewy-eyed sounds like chafe, knife, safe, waif

aflame, alfalfa, elfin, fail, falafel, fall, fallen, fame, familial, famine, feel, feline, fell, fella, female, feminine, femme, fennel, fief, fife, file, filename, filial, fill, film, final, finale, fine, finial, flail, flame, flan, flannel, flea, flee, flimflam, infill, inflame, leaf, life, lifeline, mafia, miff, naif