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NYT 🐝 Clues—Wed. 21 September, 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

  1. 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
  2. AF9 — a local unit of an organization synonyms—branch, cell, chapter, council, local sounds like—officiate
  3. AF7 — to cause persistent suffering to synonyms—agonize, anguish, bedevil, beset, besiege sounds like—addict, flick, flicker, flint, flit

AL

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

CA

  1. 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
  2. CA4 — the muscular back part of the leg below the knee synonyms—drumstick, ham, shank, shin, thigh sounds like—chaff, cough

CL

  1. CL4 — a ** placing the F below middle C on the fourth line of the staff; the bass staff
  2. CL5 — an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure synonyms—check, chink, crack, cranny, crevice sounds like—left
  3. CL5 — a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice synonyms—barranca, bluff, crag, escarpment, palisade

EF

  1. EF6 — to destroy all traces of synonyms—abolish, annihilate, black out, blot out, cancel sounds like—face
  2. 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
  3. 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

  1. 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
  2. FA8 — as in renovations, refurbishments synonyms—reclamations, reconstructions, re-creations, refurbishments, regeneracies sounds like—airlift, bassist, flint, flit, forklift
  3. FA5 — a certain way in which something appears or may be regarded synonyms—angle, aspect, hand, phase, side
  4. FA6 — a treatment to improve the condition or appearance of the ** skin sounds like—racial
  5. 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
  6. FA10 — to free from obstruction or difficulty synonyms—ease, grease, loosen (up), smooth, unclog
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. FA7 — a spicy mixture of ground vegetables (such as chickpeas or fava beans) formed into balls or patties and then fried
  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 synonyms—slip, stumble, topple, trip, tumble sounds like—all, ball, bawl, call, feel
  11. 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
  12. 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

  1. 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
  2. FE5 — sounds like—fickle, focal
  3. 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
  4. FE4 — the lowest part, place, or point synonyms—basements, bases, bottoms, nadirs, rock bottoms sounds like—beat, beet, cheat, eat, effete
  5. 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
  6. FE5 — an adult male human being synonyms—bastard, bloke, buck, cat, chap sounds like—phyla
  7. FE7 — to perform fellatio on; to *** someone
  8. 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
  9. FE4 — a white moderately hard and crumbly Greek cheese made from sheep's or goat's milk and cured in brine
  10. FE5 — sounds like—beetle, cheetal, fatal
  11. 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
  12. FE6 — a state of being or fitness synonyms—condition, estate, form, health, keeping sounds like—fatal, kettle, metal, mettle, nettle

FI

  1. FI4 — an order publicly issued by an authority synonyms—bull, decree, diktat, directive, edict sounds like—fat, flat
  2. FI4 — a region of activity, knowledge, or influence synonyms—area, arena, bailiwick, barony, business sounds like—beef, chief, feat, fee, feed
  3. FI4 — a rail about the mast near the deck to which rigging is belayed sounds like—knife, life, rife, wife
  4. FI4 — to make smooth by friction synonyms—buff, grind, hone, rasp, rub sounds like—aisle, bile, fail, fall, feel
  5. FI5 — a lace with a square mesh and geometric designs sounds like—delay
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. FI6 — as in braid, lace synonyms—braid, embroider, feather, figure, filigree sounds like—allay

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 — 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
  3. FL8 — a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level synonyms—bobbies, bulls, constables, coppers, cops
  4. FL4 — an interesting and often novel device with a practical use synonyms—appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gimmick sounds like—alley, awfully, early, fee, filly
  5. 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
  6. FL6 — the hairy covering of a mammal especially when fine, soft, and thick synonyms—coat, fur, hair, jacket, pelage sounds like—lease
  7. FL5 — a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management synonyms—armada, caravan, cavalcade, line, motorcade sounds like—cleat, elite, feat
  8. FL4 — to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements synonyms—dance, dart, flick, flicker, flirt sounds like—fit

IC

  1. 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

  1. LE4 — to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner synonyms—flip, riffle, skim, thumb sounds like—beef, chief, laugh
  2. LE7 — a short printed publication with no cover or with a paper cover synonyms—booklet, brochure, circular, flyer, folder sounds like—lifeless
  3. 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
  4. LE6 — sounds like—hefty, lofty

LI

  1. 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
  2. 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

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

TI

  1. 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

affect, affiliate, afflict, alfalfa, cafe, calf, clef, cleft, cliff, efface, effect, effete, face, facelift, facet, facial, facile, facilitate, fact, fail, falafel, fall, fatal, fate, feat, fecal, feel, feet, fell, fella, fellate, felt, feta, fetal, fete, fettle, fiat, fief, fife, file, filet, filial, fill, fillet, flail, flat, flatfeet, flea, flee, fleece, fleet, flit, icefall, leaf, leaflet, left, leftie, life, lift, taffeta, tiff