NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 12 October, 2023

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

Letters: y  a  f  i  l  m  r

  • Total Answers: 29
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AF

  1. AF6 — a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people; brawl; broil; donnybrook; fracas sounds like fray

AI

  1. AI6 — in a quick and spirited manner; resembling air in lightness; open to the free circulation of air; animatedly; animately sounds like eerily, merrily, orally, warily, wearily

  2. AI4 — resembling air in lightness; open to the free circulation of air; located at a greater height than average or usual; ethereal; fluffy sounds like any, area, berry, brie, bury

AL

  1. AL5 — to make more bearable or less severe; alleviate; assuage; ease; help sounds like away, clay, fillet, lay, play

  2. AL4 — someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support; to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members; abettor; backer; bedfellow sounds like fly, lie, lye, ply, sleigh

AM

  1. AM4 — sounds like mill

AR

  1. AR4 — a large body of men and women organized for land warfare; a great number of persons or creatures massed together; a group of people working together on a task; array; battalion

  2. AR5 — a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; dressy clothing; assemblage; band sounds like awry, bay, day, earl, earn

FA

  1. FA6 — to some degree or extent; according to the rules or the law; very close to but not completely; enough; kindly sounds like barely, ferry, rarely

  2. FA5 — an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers; as in dreamy, fairylike; one that helps another with gifts or money; brownie; dwarf sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

  3. FA10 — as in intimately; as in usually, generally; closely acquainted; intimately; face-to-face

  4. FA6 — a group of persons who come from the same ancestor; one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic; a name shared by members of a family; blood; clan sounds like amply, camel, finally, firmly, formally

FI

  1. FI8 —

  2. FI5 — a female person who has not yet reached adulthood; girl; lass; lassie; miss sounds like chili, chilly

  3. FI5 — being of a material lacking in sturdiness or substance; very thin and easy to see through; cobwebby; flimsy; frothy

  4. FI6 — in a vigorous and forceful manner; not showing weakness or uncertainty; having a consistency that does not easily yield to pressure; dynamically; energetically sounds like burley, burly, calmly, comely, curly

FL

  1. FL4 — to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings; to remove the natural covering of; baste; bawl out; berate sounds like allay, clay, filet, fillet

FR

  1. 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; battle; fight sounds like foray, gray, grey

  2. FR6 — a residence for men under religious vows; abbey; cloister; hermitage; monastery

  3. FR6 — as in extravagant, flamboyant; a strip of fabric gathered or pleated on one edge and used as trimming; something adding to pleasure or comfort but not absolutely necessary; chichi; extravagant sounds like filly, really

IF

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

IL

  1. IL4 — sounds like alley, chili, ch**, early, eerie

LI

  1. LI4 — having or showing a shameful lack of courage; free from guilt or blame; chicken; chicken-livered; chickenhearted sounds like chili, chilly, filly, hilly, leery

MA

  1. MA7 — sounds like memory

  2. MA5 — to perform the ceremony of marriage for; to give in marriage; to take as a spouse; wed; espouse sounds like airy, berry, bury, cherry, dairy

  3. MA6 — sounds like fly, melee, muffler, safely

RA

  1. RA5 — an act of gathering forces together to renew or attempt an effort; a mass meeting for the purpose of displaying or arousing support for a cause or person; the process or period of gradually regaining one's health and strength; marshaling; mobilization sounds like alley, dally, galley, really, sally

  2. RA6 — to set or force apart; break up; decouple; disassociate; disconnect

RI

  1. RI5 — sounds like regal, renal

affray, airily, airy, allay, ally, amyl, army, array, fairly, fairy, familiarly, family, filially, filly, filmy, firmly, flay, fray, friary, frilly, iffy, illy, lily, mammary, marry, mayfly, rally, ramify, riyal