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 — being on fire; ablaze; afire; alight; blazing sounds like acclaim, flame

AL

3. AL7 —

EL

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

FA

7. 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
8. FA7 —
9. FA4 — 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
10. FA6 — 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
11. FA4 — 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
12. FA8 — of or relating to a household or family; domestic; household
13. FA6 — a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number; crunch; dearth; deficiency; deficit sounds like salmon

FE

15. FE4 — 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
16. FE6 — a small domestic animal known for catching mice; moving easily; cat; house cat; kitty sounds like airline, align, byline, fallen, field
17. FE4 — 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
18. FE5 — an adult male human being; bastard; bloke; buck; cat sounds like phyla
19. FE6 — 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
20. FE8 — of, relating to, or marked by qualities traditionally associated with women; female; womanish; womanlike; womanly sounds like eminence, eminent, melanin, seminal
21. FE5 — a woman whom men find irresistibly attractive; enchantress; seductress; siren; temptress sounds like fair, fame, fare, firm, foam
22. FE6 — sounds like final, funnel, kennel

FI

24. FI4 — a region of activity, knowledge, or influence; area; arena; bailiwick; barony sounds like beef, chief, feat, fee, feed
25. FI4 — sounds like knife, life, rife, wife
26. FI4 — 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
27. FI8 — sounds like colonnade, fallen, fascinate, felon, felony
28. FI6 — sounds like bilious, cereal, ciliate, fearful
29. 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
30. FI4 — 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
31. 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
32. FI6 — 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
33. FI4 — 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
34. FI6 — sounds like lineal

FL

36. 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
37. FL5 — 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
38. FL4 — sounds like clan, fan, plan
39. FL7 — excessive praise; language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; adulation; blarney; butter sounds like annul, channel, fennel, final, fragile
40. FL4 — an interesting and often novel device with a practical use; appliance; contraption; contrivance; gadget sounds like alley, awfully, early, fee, filly
41. FL4 — 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
42. FL8 — 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

44. IN6 — sounds like fill, refill
45. IN7 — to make angry; to set (something) on fire; anger; enrage; incense

LE

47. LE4 — 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

49. LI4 — 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
50. LI8 —

MA

52. MA5 — a group involved in secret or criminal activities; cabal; conspiracy; crew; gang sounds like aria, coffee, toffee

MI

54. MI4 — 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

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