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

Letters: p  a  f  i  l  n  u

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

AP

1. AP5 — sounds like—alien, paean
2. AP6 — to cause an unpleasant surprise for synonyms—floor, jolt, shake up, shock

FI

3. FI6 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument synonyms—bang, bash, bat, beat, belt sounds like—billet, billon, bishop, buildup, dollop

FL

4. FL4 — a state of wildly excited activity or emotion synonyms—agitation, deliriousness, delirium, distraction, fever sounds like—clap, lap, slap
5. FL4 — to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner; to change the position of (an object) so that the opposite side or end is showing synonyms—leaf, riffle, skim, thumb, invert sounds like—blip, clip, lip, slip

PA

6. PA4 — a round container that is open at the top and outfitted with a handle synonyms—bucket sounds like—ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
7. PA4 — a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the body; a state of great suffering of body or mind; strict attentiveness to what one is doing synonyms—ache, pang, prick, shoot, smart sounds like—arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
8. PA7 — causing or feeling bodily pain; hard to accept or bear especially emotionally synonyms—aching, achy, afflictive, hurting, nasty sounds like—gainful
9. PA6 — sounds like—plaza, plop
10. PA4 — a boxlike container for holding a dead body; an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom; something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth synonyms—bier, box, casket, coffin, sarcophagus sounds like—doll, loll, peal, pearl, peel
11. PA4 — as in ate synonyms—ate, feel, touch, brush, graze sounds like—pulp
12. PA6 — Giovanni Paolo 1691—1765 Italian painter sounds like—bikini, canine, dainty, faintly, genie
13. PA4 — a male human parent synonyms—dad, daddy, father, old man, pa sounds like—pop, poppy
14. PA5 — as in priestly, apostolic synonyms—apostolic, canonical, clerical, episcopal, evangelical sounds like—maple, people, purple
15. PA7 — a small projecting body part similar to a nipple in form:; a vascular process of connective tissue extending into and nourishing the root of a hair, feather, or developing tooth; any of the vascular protuberances of the dermal layer of the skin extending into the epidermal layer and often containing tactile corpuscles

PI

16. PI5 — a dish made of seasoned rice and often meat sounds like—aloof, bailiff, bluff, fluff, gulf
17. PI4 — a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally; a person whose behavior is offensive to others synonyms—cap, capsule, lozenge, tablet, bastard sounds like—bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
18. PI5 — as in cover girl, bathing beauty synonyms—bathing beauty, cover girl, belle, charmer, peach
19. PI6 — something very good of its kind synonyms—beaut, beauty, bee's knees, cat's meow, corker sounds like—begin, herein, kingpin, poplin, spin

PL

20. PL5 — free from all additions or embellishment; free from added matter; free in expressing one's true feelings and opinions synonyms—bald, bare, naked, *-vanilla, simple sounds like—lain, lane, pain, pane
21. PL4 — a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective; something that one hopes or intends to accomplish synonyms—arrangement, blueprint, design, game, game ** sounds like—clan, pan

PU

22. PU4 — a slight or gentle movement of air synonyms—air, breath, breeze, waft, zephyr sounds like—buff, cuff, huff, muff, poof
23. PU6 — a small black-and-white ** (Fratercula arctica) of the northern coastal parts of the North Atlantic Ocean that has a triangular bill with a broad red or yellow tip sounds like—buffoon, coffin, elfin, fin, muffin
24. PU4 — a monetary subunit of the afghani
25. PU4 — to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to draw out by force or with effort; to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure synonyms—drag, draw, hale, haul, lug sounds like—bull, full, pail, pal, pale
26. PU4 — to cause to become a **y mass synonyms—crush, mash, squash sounds like—gulp
27. PU4 — as in larva, nymph synonyms—larva, naiad, nymph sounds like—coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop
28. PU5 — an intermediate usually quiescent stage of a metamorphic insect (such as a bee, moth, or beetle) that occurs between the larva and the imago, is usually enclosed in a cocoon or protective covering, and undergoes internal changes by which larval structures are replaced by those typical of the imago sounds like—papal, people, poodle
29. PU5 — one who attends a school; one who follows the opinions or teachings of another synonyms—scholar, student, acolyte, adherent, convert sounds like—bugle, feudal, fuel, futile, papal

UN

30. UN5 — to remove a pin from; to loosen, free, or unfasten by or as if by removing a pin sounds like—annoying, appear, nine, onion, pin