NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 10 February, 2023

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

Letters: f  a  b  e  i  l  x

  • Total Answers: 34
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AF

  1. AF7 — having a relaxed, casual manner; having an easygoing and pleasing manner especially in social situations; showing a natural kindness and courtesy especially in social situations; breezy; devil-may-care sounds like amble, animal, arable, audible, bubble

  2. AF5 — to cause (something) to hold to another; attach; bend; fasten; fix sounds like fix

AL

  1. AL7 —

BA

  1. BA6 — to prevent from achieving a goal; to throw into a state of mental uncertainty; as in muffler; balk; beat

  2. BA7 — sounds like bluff

BE

  1. BE4 — an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; muscular strength; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; bitch; bleat

  2. BE6 — to take place; be; betide; chance; come

  3. BE6 — to take place; to take place; betided; came; came about

  4. BE6 — mental conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon; an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge; as in pretense, likeness; credence; credit sounds like relief

BI

  1. BI4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; bang; bash; bat sounds like beef, been, beer

FA

  1. FA5 — a story intended to teach a basic truth or moral about life; a traditional but unfounded story that gives the reason for a current custom, belief, or fact of nature; something that is the product of the imagination; allegory; apologue sounds like able, cable, feeble, foible, gable

  2. 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

  3. FA7 —

  4. 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

  5. FA8 — capable of making mistakes or being wrong; errant; amiss; bad; defective sounds like affable, billable, feasible, flammable, gullible

FE

  1. FE6 — lacking bodily strength; asthenic; debilitated; delicate; down-and-out sounds like fable, foible

  2. 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; perceive; scent sounds like deal, eel, fail, fall, field

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

  4. FE5 — an adult male human being; bastard; bloke; buck; cat sounds like phyla

FI

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

  2. FI4 — sounds like knife, life, rife, wife

  3. FI4 — to make smooth by friction; to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group; a series of persons or things arranged one behind another; buff; grind sounds like aisle, bile, fail, fall, feel

  4. FI6 — sounds like bilious, cereal, ciliate, fearful

  5. 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

  6. FI7 — capable of being corrected; to arrange something in a certain spot or position; to cause (something) to hold to another; correctable; corrigible sounds like flexible, taxable

FL

  1. FL4 — sounds like lab, slab

  2. 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

  3. FL4 — sounds like fax, lax

  4. FL4 — an interesting and often novel device with a practical use; appliance; contraption; contrivance; gadget 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; dematerialize; disappear sounds like alley, awfully, early, fee, filly

  6. FL4 —

  7. FL8 — capable of being readily changed; not bound by rigid standards; able to bend easily without breaking; adaptable; adjustable sounds like fixable, in**

LE

  1. LE4 — to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner; as in sheet, slice; as in turn over, dip (into); flip; riffle sounds like beef, chief, laugh

LI

  1. LI4 — a history of a person's life; a member of the human race; active strength of body or mind; bio; biography sounds like knife, laugh, leaf

affable, affix, alfalfa, baffle, bailiff, beef, befall, befell, belief, biff, fable, fail, falafel, fall, fallible, feeble, feel, fell, fella, fief, fife, file, filial, fill, fixable, flab, flail, flax, flea, flee, flex, flexible, leaf, life