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

Letters: l  a  d  f  i  n  w

• Total Answers: 31
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

1. AL7 —

AN

3. AN4 — extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise; extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise; as in perversity, waywardness; anal-retentive; obsessive sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null
4. AN5 — sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null

DI

6. DI4 — to make a telephone call to; as in face, gauge; as in button, switch; call; phone sounds like dowel, dual, duel, dull, vial
7. DI4 — sounds like bill, chill, dale, deal, dear

FA

9. FA4 — to stop functioning; to be unsuccessful; to fall short in satisfying the expectation or hope of; break; break down sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
10. 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; slip; stumble sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, feel

FI

12. FI6 — sounds like bilious, cereal, ciliate, fearful
13. 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; brim; charge sounds like bill, chill, dill, fail, fall
14. FI5 — following all others of the same kind in order or time; having been established and usually not subject to change; as in semifinal, play-off; bottommost; closing sounds like fennel, funnel, vinyl
15. FI6 — sounds like lineal

FL

17. FL5 — to move or cause to move with a striking motion; to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; as in bludgeon, cudgel; beat; flap sounds like fail, frail
18. FL4 — sounds like clan, fan, plan
19. FL4 — something that spoils the appearance or completeness of a thing; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; as in hamartia; blemish; blight sounds like claw

IN

21. IN6 — sounds like fill, refill
22. IN6 — as in installed, inset; cut in; inset; installed; edged in
23. IN6 — sounds like bland, gland, land, lowland, ma**

LA

25. LA4 — to arrange something in a certain spot or position; to cause to come to rest at the bottom (as of a liquid); to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; deposed; deposited sounds like aid, aide, bade, blade, fade
26. LA4 — to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction; to occupy a place or location; to remain out of sight; borne; extended sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
27. LA5 — a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot
28. LA4 — a body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government; a broad geographical area; the solid part of our planet's surface as distinguished from the sea and air; commonwealth; country sounds like and, band, b, canned, g
29. LA8 —
30. LA8 — a place where discarded materials (as trash) are dumped; a place where discarded materials (as trash) are dumped; dump; sanitary landfill; tip
31. LA4 — an area of ground (such as the ground around a house or in a garden or park) that is covered with short grass; grass; green; greensward; clearing sounds like dawn, fawn, gone, lean, learn

NA

33. NA4 — to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to make final, definite, or beyond dispute; to reveal the true nature of; bang; bash sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

WA

35. WA4 — a crying out in grief; a long low sound indicating pain or grief; an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; groan; howl sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
36. WA4 — a physical object that blocks the way; means or method of defending; as in close in, cordon (off); barricade; barrier sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall

WI

38. WI4 — living outdoors without taming or domestication by humans; existing without human habitation or cultivation; marked by turmoil or disturbance especially of natural elements; feral; savage sounds like child, mild, piled, tiled, walled
39. WI8 — sounds like childless, highland, island, sidelined, woodland
40. WI4 — to give by means of a will; to see fit; the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions; bequeath; leave sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
41. WI8 — something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing; benediction; benefit; blessing; boon sounds like landfall