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

3. 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
4. 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

6. AL5 — to make more bearable or less severe; alleviate; assuage; ease; help sounds like away, clay, fillet, lay, play
7. 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

9. AM4 — sounds like mill

AR

11. 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
12. 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

14. 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
15. 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
16. FA10 — as in intimately; as in usually, generally; closely acquainted; intimately; face-to-face
17. 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

19. FI8 —
20. FI5 — a female person who has not yet reached adulthood; girl; lass; lassie; miss sounds like chili, chilly
21. FI5 — being of a material lacking in sturdiness or substance; very thin and easy to see through; cobwebby; flimsy; frothy
22. 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

24. 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

26. 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
27. FR6 — a residence for men under religious vows; abbey; cloister; hermitage; monastery
28. 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

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

IL

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

LI

34. 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

36. MA7 — sounds like memory
37. 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
38. MA6 — sounds like fly, melee, muffler, safely

RA

40. 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
41. RA6 — to set or force apart; break up; decouple; disassociate; disconnect

RI

43. RI5 — sounds like regal, renal