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  o  r

• Total Answers: 59
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

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

AF

4. AF6 — a brief romantic relationship; a social gathering; something produced by physical or intellectual effort; amour; fling sounds like aware, fair, fare, unfair

AI

6. AI5 — sounds like holy, idly, lowly, wholly
7. AI7 — sounds like aerial, broil, careful, earful, foil

AR

9. AR4 — a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson
10. AR4 — sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, aural

CA

12. CA6 — as in speckled, streaked; blotted; brindled; specked; speckled sounds like cluck
13. CA7 — as in calorific, fattening; calorific; fattening; buttery; fat sounds like cleric, culprit
14. CA9 — as in caloric, fattening; caloric; fattening; buttery; fat sounds like arabic
15. CA7 — sounds like karaoke

CI

17. CI4 — sounds like cheap, cheat, cheek, cheese, chief
18. CI5 — sounds like psyllium, sillier, silly
19. CI5 — not far from (something) in time; alongside; beside; about; around
20. CI5 — sounds like airy, brie, eerie, free, sari

CL

22. 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

CO

24. CO5 — sounds like catchy
25. CO4 — sounds like calf, cuff
26. CO4 — a state of noisy, confused activity; to follow a circular or spiral course; ado; alarums and excursions; ballyhoo sounds like boil, call, cul, cull, curl
27. CO4 — sounds like car
28. CO5 — as in cramps, gripes; cramps; gripes; bellyache; collywobbles sounds like click
29. CO9 — sounds like allergic, caloric

CR

31. CR5 —

FA

33. FA6 — sounds like racial
34. 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
35. FA4 — not stormy or cloudy; marked by justice, honesty, and freedom from bias; following or according to the rules; bright; clear sounds like af**, air, bare, bear, care
36. FA8 — causing or intended to cause laughter; so foolish or pointless as to be worthy of scornful laughter; antic; chucklesome; comedic sounds like article, barnacle, comical, fickle, logical

FI

38. FI6 — sounds like bilious, cereal, ciliate, fearful
39. 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

FL

41. 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
42. FL5 — a special and usually inborn ability; aptitude; bent; endowment; faculty sounds like blare, fair, fare, glare

FO

44. FO8 — sounds like comma, fixture, scotch
45. FO4 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; a guiding or motivating purpose or principle; a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; axes; bases sounds like fussy, phoney, phony
46. FO4 — to prevent from achieving a goal; something or someone that is different from another especially in a pleasing way; baffle; balk; beat sounds like boil, coil, fail, fall, feel
47. FO5 — sounds like falling, flick, frolic, phonic
48. FO5 — as in quarto; quarto; hardback; hardcover; paper sounds like polio

FR

50. FR5 — easily broken; easily injured without careful handling; lacking bodily strength; breakable; delicate sounds like fail, flail, phrase, rail, trail
51. FR5 — as in monk, mendicant; brother; mendicant; monastic; monk sounds like drier, dryer, fire, flier, flyer
52. FR5 — a strip of fabric gathered or pleated on one edge and used as trimming; something adding to pleasure or comfort but not absolutely necessary; something that decorates or beautifies; flounce; furbelow sounds like drill, fill, grill, grille, rill
53. FR6 — a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke; a time or instance of carefree fun; activity engaged in to amuse oneself; antic; caper sounds like chronic, erotic, falling, flick, ironic

IL

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

LA

57. LA4 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like lick
58. LA6 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like cul, cull, local, loyal, lull
59. LA4 — a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others; the shelter or resting place of a wild animal; a place set aside for sleeping; concealment; covert sounds like air, bare, bear, blare, care

LI

61. LI4 — a person who tells lies; fabricator; fabulist; fibber; prevaricator sounds like buyer, fire, flier, flyer, higher
62. LI5 — sounds like black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack
63. LI4 — sounds like leery

LO

65. LO4 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; the area or space occupied by or intended for something; a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; axes; bases sounds like fussy, gussy, lacey, lacy, lucky

OF

67. OF8 — a person who holds a public office; ordered or allowed by those in authority; as in functionary, official; functionary; officeholder

OL

69. OL4 — an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; agglomerate; agglomeration; alphabet soup; assortment sounds like audio

RA

71. RA6 — of, relating to, or reflecting the traits exhibited by a group of people with a common ancestry and culture; ethnic; ethnical; tribal sounds like facial
72. RA6 — sounds like caffeine, hafta, mafia, taffy
73. RA4 — a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports; a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel; as in revile, rant; balustrade; banister sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
74. RA7 —

RI

76. RI4 — sounds like dial, royal, t**, vial
77. RI4 — a distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play); interpretation; take; variation sounds like rear, reef
78. RI8 — discarded or useless material; people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class; chaff; deadwood; debris sounds like refrain, refresh
79. RI4 — a natural body of running water smaller than a river; beck; bourn; brook; brooklet sounds like bill, chill, dill, d**, fill

RO

81. RO4 — to be in a state of violent rolling motion; to make angry; boil; churn; moil sounds like boil, b**, coil, foil, oil