Mauk Mulder

September 21, 2022

NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 21 September, 2022

Mauk Mulder

September 21, 2022

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

Letters: f a c e i l t

Total Answers: 61
Pangrams: 2
Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

`AF`

AF6 — to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response; to be the business or affair of synonyms—impact, impress, influence, move, reach sounds like—effect

AF9 — a local unit of an organization synonyms—branch, cell, chapter, council, local sounds like—officiate

AF7 — to cause persistent suffering to synonyms—agonize, anguish, bedevil, beset, besiege sounds like—addict, flick, flicker, flint, flit

`AL`

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

`CA`

CA4 — a bar or restaurant offering special nighttime entertainment (as music, dancing, or comedy acts); a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises; a public establishment where meals are served to paying customers for consumption on the premises synonyms—bistro, boîte, cabaret, club, nightclub sounds like—cuff

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

`CL`

CL4 — a ** placing the F below middle C on the fourth line of the staff; the bass staff

CL5 — an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure synonyms—check, chink, crack, cranny, crevice sounds like—left

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

`EF`

EF6 — to destroy all traces of synonyms—abolish, annihilate, black out, blot out, cancel sounds like—face

EF6 — a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause; the power to bring about a result on another; transportable items that one owns synonyms—after**, aftermath, backwash, child, conclusion sounds like—affect, eject, elect, erect, infect

EF6 — having lost forcefulness, courage, or spirit; lacking bodily strength; lacking strength of will or character synonyms—decadent, decayed, degenerate, overripe, washed-up sounds like—feat

`FA`

FA4 — to stand or sit with the ** or front toward; to oppose (something hostile or dangerous) with firmness or courage; to cover with something that protects synonyms—front, look (toward), point (toward), beard, brave sounds like—ace, base, case, chase

FA8 — as in renovations, refurbishments synonyms—reclamations, reconstructions, re-creations, refurbishments, regeneracies sounds like—airlift, bassist, flint, flit, forklift

FA5 — a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded synonyms—angle, aspect, hand, phase, side

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

FA6 — having or showing a lack of depth of understanding or character; involving minimal difficulty or effort synonyms—one-dimensional, shallow, skin-deep, superficial, cheap sounds like—passel

FA10 — to free from obstruction or difficulty synonyms—ease, grease, loosen (up), smooth, unclog

FA4 — the quality of being actual; something that actually exists; a single piece of information synonyms—actuality, **uality, materiality, reality, actuality sounds like—act, backed, packed, pact, tact

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

FA7 — a spicy mixture of ground vegetables (such as chickpeas or fava beans) formed into balls or patties and then fried

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

FA5 — bringing about ruin or misfortune; likely to cause or capable of causing death synonyms—calamitous, cataclysmal, catastrophic, damning, destructive sounds like—fertile, fetal, natal

FA4 — a state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand; a condition or occurrence traceable to a cause; the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities synonyms—circumstance, destiny, doom, fortune, kismet sounds like—ate, bait, date, eight

`FE`

FE4 — an act of notable skill, strength, or cleverness; something done by someone synonyms—deed, exploit, number, stunt, tour de force sounds like—beat, beet, cheat, eat, effete

FE5 — sounds like—fickle, focal

FE4 — to have a vague awareness of; to come into bodily contact with (something) so as to perceive a slight pressure on the skin; to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it synonyms—perceive, scent, see, sense, smell sounds like—deal, eel, fail, fall, field

FE4 — the lowest part, place, or point synonyms—basements, bases, bottoms, nadirs, rock bottoms sounds like—beat, beet, cheat, eat, effete

FE4 — to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall; to bring down by cutting; to deprive of life synonyms—bowl (down or over), down, drop, floor, knock down sounds like—bell, cell, dell, fail, fair

FE5 — an adult male human being synonyms—bastard, bloke, buck, cat, chap sounds like—phyla

FE7 — to perform fellatio on; to *** someone

FE4 — to have a vague awareness of; to come into bodily contact with (something) so as to perceive a slight pressure on the skin; to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it synonyms—perceived, saw, scented, sensed, smelled sounds like—belt, dealt, fault, knelt, melt

FE4 — a white moderately hard and crumbly Greek cheese made from sheep's or goat's milk and cured in brine

FE5 — sounds like—beetle, cheetal, fatal

FE4 — a social gathering; a time or program of special events and entertainment in honor of something synonyms—affair, bash, binge, blast, blowout sounds like—ate, bait, date, eight, face

FE6 — a state of being or fitness synonyms—condition, estate, form, health, keeping sounds like—fatal, kettle, metal, mettle, nettle

`FI`

FI4 — an order publicly issued by an authority synonyms—bull, decree, diktat, directive, edict sounds like—fat, flat

FI4 — a region of activity, knowledge, or influence synonyms—area, arena, bailiwick, barony, business sounds like—beef, chief, feat, fee, feed

FI4 — a rail about the mast near the deck to which rigging is belayed sounds like—knife, life, rife, wife

FI4 — to make smooth by friction synonyms—buff, grind, hone, rasp, rub sounds like—aisle, bile, fail, fall, feel

FI5 — a lace with a square mesh and geometric designs sounds like—delay

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

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

FI6 — as in braid, lace synonyms—braid, embroider, feather, figure, filigree sounds like—allay

`FL`

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

FL4 — being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; having a surface without bends, breaks, or irregularities synonyms—even, exact, precise, round, arid sounds like—fat, fiat

FL8 — a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level synonyms—bobbies, bulls, constables, coppers, cops

FL4 — an interesting and often novel device with a practical use synonyms—appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gimmick sounds like—alley, awfully, early, fee, filly

FL4 — to cease to be visible; to get free from a dangerous or confining situation; to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening synonyms—dematerialize, disappear, dissolve, evanesce, evaporate sounds like—alley, awfully, early, fee, filly

FL6 — the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick synonyms—coat, fur, hair, jacket, pelage sounds like—lease

FL5 — a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management synonyms—armada, caravan, cavalcade, line, motorcade sounds like—cleat, elite, feat

FL4 — to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements synonyms—dance, dart, flick, flicker, flirt sounds like—fit

`IC`

IC7 — a frozen waterfall; the mass of usually jagged blocks into which a glacier may break when it moves down a steep declivity sounds like—asphalt, befall, eyeball, eyesore, fall

`LE`

LE4 — to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner synonyms—flip, riffle, skim, thumb sounds like—beef, chief, laugh

LE7 — a short printed publication with no cover or with a paper cover synonyms—booklet, brochure, circular, flyer, folder sounds like—lifeless

LE4 — a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom synonyms— wing, ism, liberalism sounds like—deft, heft, lift, loft, theft

LE6 — sounds like—hefty, lofty

`LI`

LI4 — a history of a person's **; a member of the human race; active strength of body or mind synonyms—bio, biography, memoir, baby, being sounds like—knife, laugh, leaf

LI4 — to move from a lower to a higher place or position; to move or extend upward; to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep synonyms—boost, crane, elevate, heave, heft sounds like—gift, left, loft, miffed, rift

`TA`

TA7 — a crisp plain-woven lustrous fabric of various fibers used especially for women's clothing sounds like—hafta

`TI`

TI4 — an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions synonyms—altercation, argle-bargle, argument, argy-bargy, battle royal sounds like—riff, s**, tough, turf, whiff