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

4. AL7 —

BA

6. BA6 — to prevent from achieving a goal; to throw into a state of mental uncertainty; as in muffler; balk; beat
7. BA7 — sounds like bluff

BE

9. BE4 — an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; muscular strength; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; bitch; bleat
10. BE6 — to take place; be; betide; chance; come
11. BE6 — to take place; to take place; betided; came; came about
12. 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

14. 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

16. 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
17. 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
18. FA7 —
19. 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
20. FA8 — capable of making mistakes or being wrong; errant; amiss; bad; defective sounds like affable, billable, feasible, flammable, gullible

FE

22. FE6 — lacking bodily strength; asthenic; debilitated; delicate; down-and-out sounds like fable, foible
23. 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
24. 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
25. FE5 — an adult male human being; bastard; bloke; buck; cat sounds like phyla

FI

27. FI4 — a region of activity, knowledge, or influence; area; arena; bailiwick; barony sounds like beef, chief, feat, fee, feed
28. FI4 — sounds like knife, life, rife, wife
29. 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
30. FI6 — sounds like bilious, cereal, ciliate, fearful
31. 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
32. 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

34. FL4 — sounds like lab, slab
35. 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
36. FL4 — sounds like fax, lax
37. FL4 — an interesting and often novel device with a practical use; appliance; contraption; contrivance; gadget sounds like alley, awfully, early, fee, filly
38. 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
39. FL4 —
40. FL8 — capable of being readily changed; not bound by rigid standards; able to bend easily without breaking; adaptable; adjustable sounds like fixable, in**

LE

42. 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

44. 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