NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 27 October, 2022

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

Letters: f  a  b  d  l  o  r

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

AF

  1. AF4 — a long distance synonyms—country mile, far cry, long haul, mile sounds like—ajar, far

  2. AF6 — to have enough money for synonyms—go, swing sounds like—aboard, accord, award, ford

  3. AF4 — African : African and sounds like—arrow

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

BA

  1. BA4 — to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth synonyms—gag, heave, hurl, puke, retch sounds like—borrow

BO

  1. BO5 — of the very best kind synonyms—A-OK, A1, awesome, bang-up, banner sounds like—auto, bald, balk, ball, barrow

DO

  1. DO4 — to rid oneself of (a garment) synonyms—douse, peel (off), put off, remove, shrug off sounds like—daub, dawn, deaf, off

FA

  1. 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

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

  3. FA5 — the unit of capacitance equal to the capacitance of a capacitor between whose plates there appears a potential of one volt when it is charged by one coulomb of electricity

  4. FA5 — the grain of an ancient wheat having glumes that tightly enclose the kernel; specifically : the grain of emmer, einkorn, or spelt that is cooked in liquid and used in various dishes (such as soups or salads) sounds like—borrow, follow, morrow, sorrow

FL

  1. FL4 — soft **by body tissue sounds like—lab, slab

  2. FL5 — a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms synonyms—alluvion, bath, cataclysm, cataract, deluge sounds like—blood

  3. FL5 — the surface upon which a body of water lies synonyms—bed, bottom sounds like—for, fore, four, lore

  4. FL10 — a board in a floor; the floor of an automobile sounds like—scoreboard

  5. FL5 — green leaves or plants synonyms—foliage, green, greenery, herbage, leafage

  6. FL6 — of or relating to flowers synonyms—flowered, flowery sounds like—laurel

FO

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

  2. FO4 — to lay one part over or against another part of; to be unsuccessful synonyms—double, bomb, collapse, crater, fail sounds like—bold, cold, failed, felled, field

  3. FO4 — substances intended to be eaten; something that maintains or stimulates the intellect synonyms—bread, chow, chuck, comestibles, eatables sounds like—fad, fade, feed, feud, lewd

  4. 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

  5. FO4 — a meeting featuring a group discussion; a place or opportunity for communicating ideas and information; an assembly of persons for the administration of justice synonyms—colloquies, conferences, councils, panel discussions, panels sounds like—aura, fauna, flora

  6. FO4 — a place where a body of water (as a sea or river) is shallow synonyms—shallow(s), shoal sounds like—af**, board, bored, chord, cord

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. OF7 — to empty or rid of cargo synonyms—disburden, discharge, disencumber, unburden, unlade sounds like—awfully, carload, flawed, fled, flied

RO

  1. RO4 — a raised covering over something for decoration or protection; the place where one lives synonyms—awning, canopy, ceiling, cover, tent sounds like—goof, hoof, poof, p**, reef

afar, afford, afro, alfalfa, aloof, barf, boffo, doff, fall, falloff, farad, farro, flab, flood, floor, floorboard, flora, floral, foal, fold, food, fool, fora, ford, loaf, loofa, offal, offload, roof