NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 18 August, 2022

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

Letters: f  a  c  i  l  o  y

  • Total Answers: 35
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! đŸ€Ł

AL

  1. AL7 — a deep-rooted leguminous perennial plant (Medicago sativa) of southwestern Asia that is widely grown for hay and forage

  2. AL5 — having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others synonyms—antisocial, asocial, buttoned-up, cold, cold-eyed

  3. AL7 — as in impassively, disinterestedly synonyms—disinterestedly, impassively, incuriously, apathetically, indifferently

CA

  1. CA7 — as in crystallize, ossify synonyms—crystallize, ossify, petrify, rigidify, clot

  2. CA4 — the muscular back part of the leg below the knee synonyms—drumstick, ham, shank, shin, thigh sounds like—chaff, cough

CL

  1. CL5 — a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice synonyms—barranca, bluff, crag, escarpment, palisade

CO

  1. CO4 — to cover or dress with or as if with a ; to arrange (hair) by brushing, combing, or curling sounds like—calf, cuff

FA

  1. FA6 — a treatment to improve the condition or appearance of the ** skin sounds like—racial

  2. FA8 — of or relating to the face; concerned with or used in improving the appearance of the face sounds like—bodily, finally, folly, fondly, fossil

  3. FA4 — to stop functioning; to be unsuccessful; to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of synonyms—break, break down, conk (out), crash, cut out sounds like—ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

  4. 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 synonyms—slip, stumble, topple, trip, tumble sounds like—all, ball, bawl, call, feel

  5. FA7 — a false idea or belief; the quality or state of being false synonyms—delusion, error, falsehood, falsity, hallucination sounds like—ballast, callous, calloused, callously, felony

  6. FA7 — the amount by which something is lessened synonyms—abatement, decline, decrease, decrement, dent sounds like—flaw, flawed, floor, fluff

FI

  1. FI6 — a generation in a breeding experiment that is successive to a mating between parents of two distinctively different but usually relatively pure genotypes sounds like—bilious, cereal, ciliate, fearful

  2. FI8 — of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter; having or assuming the relation of a child or offspring

  3. 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 synonyms—brim, charge, cram, heap, jam sounds like—bill, chill, dill, fail, fall

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

FL

  1. FL5 — to move or cause to move with a striking motion; to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible synonyms—beat, flap, flop, flutter, whip sounds like—fail, frail

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

FO

  1. FO4 — as in filly, colt synonyms—colt, filly, gelding, mare, stallion sounds like—boll, bowl, coal, dole, fail

  2. FO8 — a flat Italian bread typically seasoned with herbs and olive oil sounds like—comma, fixture, scotch

  3. FO5 — as in center, heart synonyms—center, focus, heart, foreground sounds like—fecal, fickle, local, vocal

  4. FO4 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; a guiding or motivating purpose or principle synonyms—axes, bases, capitals, centers, centrals sounds like—fussy, phoney, phony

  5. FO4 — to prevent from achieving a goal synonyms—baffle, balk, beat, checkmate, discomfit sounds like—boil, coil, fail, fall, feel

  6. FO5 — a crystalline vitamin C19H19N7O6 of the B complex that is required for normal production of red blood cells, is used especially in the treatment of nutritional anemias, and occurs chiefly in green leafy vegetables, liver, kidneys, dried beans, and mushrooms —called also pteroylglutamic acid sounds like—falling, flick, frolic, phonic

  7. FO5 — as in quarto synonyms—quarto, hardback, hardcover, paper, paperback sounds like—polio

  8. FO5 — a foolish act or idea; lack of good sense or judgment; language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense synonyms—absurdity, asininity, bĂȘtise, fatuity, foolery sounds like—collie, filly, flea, flee, fully

  9. FO4 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a person formerly kept in a royal or noble household to amuse with jests and pranks; a person with a strong and habitual liking for something synonyms—berk, booby, charlie, cuckoo, ding-a-ling sounds like—cool, fail, fall, feel, fell

IF

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

LA

  1. LA6 — the termination of the employment of an employee or a work force often temporarily; a period of often involuntary inactivity or idleness synonyms—ax, discharge, dismissal, furlough, redundancy sounds like—payoff, p**

LO

  1. LO4 — to spend time doing nothing synonyms—bum, chill, dally, dawdle, dillydally sounds like—laugh, leaf, life

  2. LO5 — sounds like—aloof, alpha, goof, goofy, hoof

OF

  1. OF5 — discarded or useless material synonyms—chaff, deadwood, debris, dreck, dross sounds like—waffle

  2. OF8 — a person who holds a public office synonyms—functionary, officeholder, officer, public servant

  3. OF10 — ordered or allowed by those in authority synonyms—authorized, sanctioned

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