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

Letters: f  i  m  o  r  t  y

• Total Answers: 16
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

FI

1. FI5 — as in one, hundred; C-note; fin; five; fiver sounds like nifty, shifty
2. FI4 — a commercial or industrial activity or organization; not showing weakness or uncertainty; having a consistency that does not easily yield to pressure; business; company sounds like af**, fame, fern, foam, fur

FO

4. FO4 — the lowest part, place, or point; to give what is owed for; the lowest part, place, or point; base; basement sounds like fat, fate, feat, fete, fight
5. FO4 — the outward appearance of something as distinguished from its substance; a piece of paper with information written or to be written on it; personal conduct or behavior as evaluated by an accepted standard of appropriateness for a social or professional setting; cast; configuration sounds like dorm, farm
6. FO4 — a structure or place from which one can resist attack; to have or keep in one's hands; to continue to have in one's possession or power; bastion; castle sounds like court, fault
7. FO7 — to prepare (oneself) mentally or emotionally; to increase the ability of (as a muscle) to exert physical force; to make able to withstand physical hardship, strain, or exposure; brace; forearm
8. FO5 — a short sleep; as in handgun, pistol; as in handguns, pistols; catnap; doze sounds like faulty

FR

10. FR4 — as in out of; falling short of a standard; with attention to all aspects or details; out of; bad sounds like drum, forum, rum

IF

12. IF4 — as in questionable, uncertain; debatable; disputable; doubtable; doubtful sounds like eerie, fee, itchy, j**

MI

14. MI4 — the feeling of being offended or resentful after a slight or indignity; as in exasperate, irritate; dudgeon; huff; offense sounds like mere, muff, myth, riff, tiff

MO

16. MO7 — to throw into a state of self-conscious distress; abash; confound; confuse; discomfit sounds like fortified, fortify, horrify, mystify
17. MO5 — a major object of interest or concern (as in a discussion or artistic composition); a unit of decoration that is repeated all over something (as a fabric); content; matter; motive sounds like goatee, meaty, meteor, mighty

RI

19. RI4 — a distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play); interpretation; take; variation sounds like rear, reef
20. RI4 — an irregular usually narrow break in a surface created by pressure; an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge); as in break, tear; check; chink sounds like d**, gift, lift, miffed, raft

RO

22. RO4 — a raised covering over something for decoration or protection; the place where one lives; to provide with living quarters or shelter; awning; canopy sounds like goof, hoof, poof, p**, reef

TI

24. TI4 — an often noisy or angry expression of differing opinions; to express different opinions about something often angrily; altercation; argle-bargle; argument sounds like riff, s**, tough, turf, whiff