NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 15 November, 2022

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

Letters: f  d  g  i  l  n  o

  • Total Answers: 35
  • Pangrams: 3
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

DO

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

  2. DO7 — to rid oneself of (a garment) synonyms—dousing, peeling (off), putting off, removing, shrugging off sounds like—offing

FI

  1. FI8 — lacking importance synonyms—foolish, frivolous, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable sounds like—billing, chilling, fading, falling, feeling

  2. FI6 —

  3. FI6 — as in document, form synonyms—blank, document, form, paper, instrument sounds like—falling, feeling, fling, piling

  4. 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

  5. FI7 — soft material that is used to fill the hollow parts of something synonyms—fill, filler, padding, stuffing, wadding sounds like—billing, chilling, falling, feeling, fling

  6. FI4 — to come upon after searching, study, or effort; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance synonyms—ascertain, descry, detect, determine, dig out sounds like—bind, feigned, fend, fond, found

  7. FI7 — a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard; the act or process of sighting or learning the existence of something for the first time synonyms—doom, holding, judgment, ruling, sentence sounds like—binding, funding, winding

  8. FI6 — to establish or apply as a charge or penalty synonyms—assessing, charging, exacting, imposing, laying sounds like—dining, shining

FL

  1. FL5 — a time or instance of carefree fun; an effort to do or accomplish something; a brief romantic relationship synonyms—binge, frisk, frolic, gambol, idyll sounds like—ailing, cling, falling, feeling, filing

  2. FL8 — to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm synonyms—casting, catapulting, chucking, dashing, firing

  3. FL4 — to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; to strike repeatedly; to move heavily or clumsily synonyms—birch, cowhide, flagellate, flail, hide sounds like—clog, fog, frog, slog

  4. FL8 — as in whipping, thrashing synonyms—assault, attack, bashing, battering, battery

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

  6. FL8 — to cover with a flood synonyms—deluging, drowning, engulfing, gulfing, inundating sounds like—budding, clouding, fading

FO

  1. FO7 — to make (something) unclear to the understanding; to make dark, dim, or indistinct synonyms—beclouding, be***, blurring, clouding, confusing sounds like—falling, jogging

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

  3. FO7 — as in thwarting, frustrating synonyms—baffling, balking, frustrating, thwarting, negating sounds like—falling, feeling, filing, fling, roiling

  4. 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

  5. FO7 — as in failing, collapsing synonyms—collapsing, failing, flopping, flunking, washing-out sounds like—holding, molding

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

  7. FO4 — having a liking or affection; feeling or showing love; granted special treatment or attention synonyms—affected, attached, inclined, partial, adoring sounds like—bond, conned, feigned, fend, fiend

  8. FO8 — to touch or handle in a tender or loving manner synonyms—caressing, gentling, loving, patting, petting

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. FO7 — marked by or expressive of mild or good-natured teasing synonyms—bantering, chaffing, funning, jesting, joking sounds like—falling, feeling, filing, fling, ruling

GO

  1. GO4 — a game in which a player using special clubs attempts to sink a ball with as few strokes as possible into each of the 9 or 18 successive holes on a course sounds like—gulf

  2. GO7 — a game in which a player using special clubs attempts to sink a ball with as few strokes as possible into each of the 9 or 18 successive holes on a course sounds like—falling, following, galling, gilding, glowing

  3. GO4 — an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; a stupid person synonyms—blunder, bobble, boo-boo, boob, brick sounds like—gaffe, hoof, poof, roof, woof

  4. GO7 — to spend time in aimless activity synonyms—doodle, fiddle (around), fool around, fribble, hang about sounds like—roofing

IN

  1. IN6 — material that fills in something (such as a hole or the spaces between a building's structural members); new buildings constructed in the space available between existing structures —often used before another noun sounds like—fill, refill

  2. IN9 — material that fills in something (such as a hole or the spaces between a building's structural members); new buildings constructed in the space available between existing structures —often used before another noun sounds like—unfailing, unwilling

  3. IN4 — a report of recent events or facts not previously known synonyms—411, advice(s), gen, **rmation, intelligence

OF

  1. OF6 — time that is to come synonyms—by-and-by, future, futurity, hereafter, tomorrow

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