NYT 🐝 Clues—Sat. 6 May, 2023

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

Letters: i  a  c  f  l  o  r

  • Total Answers: 59
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

  1. AC6 — sounds like occasion

  2. AC4 — sounds like occur, sky

AF

  1. AF6 — a brief romantic relationship; a social gathering; something produced by physical or intellectual effort; amour; fling sounds like aware, fair, fare, unfair

AI

  1. AI5 — sounds like holy, idly, lowly, wholly

  2. AI7 — sounds like aerial, broil, careful, earful, foil

AR

  1. AR4 — a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson

  2. AR4 — sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, aural

CA

  1. CA6 — as in speckled, streaked; blotted; brindled; specked; speckled sounds like cluck

  2. CA7 — as in calorific, fattening; calorific; fattening; buttery; fat sounds like cleric, culprit

  3. CA9 — as in caloric, fattening; caloric; fattening; buttery; fat sounds like arabic

  4. CA7 — sounds like karaoke

CI

  1. CI4 — sounds like cheap, cheat, cheek, cheese, chief

  2. CI5 — sounds like psyllium, sillier, silly

  3. CI5 — not far from (something) in time; alongside; beside; about; around

  4. CI5 — sounds like airy, brie, eerie, free, sari

CL

  1. CL5 — a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice; something (as a close contest) that induces much suspense as to its outcome; as in resident, resider; barranca; bluff

CO

  1. CO5 — sounds like catchy

  2. CO4 — sounds like calf, cuff

  3. CO4 — a state of noisy, confused activity; to follow a circular or spiral course; ado; alarums and excursions; ballyhoo sounds like boil, call, cul, cull, curl

  4. CO4 — sounds like car

  5. CO5 — as in cramps, gripes; cramps; gripes; bellyache; collywobbles sounds like click

  6. CO9 — sounds like allergic, caloric

CR

  1. CR5 —

FA

  1. FA6 — sounds like racial

  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. FA4 — not stormy or cloudy; marked by justice, honesty, and freedom from bias; following or according to the rules; bright; clear sounds like af**, air, bare, bear, care

  4. FA8 — causing or intended to cause laughter; so foolish or pointless as to be worthy of scornful laughter; antic; chucklesome; comedic sounds like article, barnacle, comical, fickle, logical

FI

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

  2. 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

FL

  1. 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

  2. FL5 — a special and usually inborn ability; aptitude; bent; endowment; faculty sounds like blare, fair, fare, glare

FO

  1. FO8 — sounds like comma, fixture, scotch

  2. FO4 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; a guiding or motivating purpose or principle; a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; axes; bases sounds like fussy, phoney, phony

  3. FO4 — to prevent from achieving a goal; something or someone that is different from another especially in a pleasing way; baffle; balk; beat sounds like boil, coil, fail, fall, feel

  4. FO5 — sounds like falling, flick, frolic, phonic

  5. FO5 — as in quarto; quarto; hardback; hardcover; paper sounds like polio

FR

  1. FR5 — easily broken; easily injured without careful handling; lacking bodily strength; breakable; delicate sounds like fail, flail, phrase, rail, trail

  2. FR5 — as in monk, mendicant; brother; mendicant; monastic; monk sounds like drier, dryer, fire, flier, flyer

  3. FR5 — a strip of fabric gathered or pleated on one edge and used as trimming; something adding to pleasure or comfort but not absolutely necessary; something that decorates or beautifies; flounce; furbelow sounds like drill, fill, grill, grille, rill

  4. FR6 — a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke; a time or instance of carefree fun; activity engaged in to amuse oneself; antic; caper sounds like chronic, erotic, falling, flick, ironic

IL

  1. IL5 — sounds like black, bleak, clique, elite, flak

LA

  1. LA4 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like lick

  2. LA6 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like cul, cull, local, loyal, lull

  3. LA4 — a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others; the shelter or resting place of a wild animal; a place set aside for sleeping; concealment; covert sounds like air, bare, bear, blare, care

LI

  1. LI4 — a person who tells lies; fabricator; fabulist; fibber; prevaricator sounds like buyer, fire, flier, flyer, higher

  2. LI5 — sounds like black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack

  3. LI4 — sounds like leery

LO

  1. LO4 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; the area or space occupied by or intended for something; a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; axes; bases sounds like fussy, gussy, lacey, lacy, lucky

OF

  1. OF8 — a person who holds a public office; ordered or allowed by those in authority; as in functionary, official; functionary; officeholder

OL

  1. OL4 — an unorganized collection or mixture of various things; agglomerate; agglomeration; alphabet soup; assortment sounds like audio

RA

  1. RA6 — of, relating to, or reflecting the traits exhibited by a group of people with a common ancestry and culture; ethnic; ethnical; tribal sounds like facial

  2. RA6 — sounds like caffeine, hafta, mafia, taffy

  3. RA4 — a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports; a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel; as in revile, rant; balustrade; banister sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale

  4. RA7 —

RI

  1. RI4 — sounds like dial, royal, t**, vial

  2. RI4 — a distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play); interpretation; take; variation sounds like rear, reef

  3. RI8 — discarded or useless material; people looked down upon as ignorant and of the lowest class; chaff; deadwood; debris sounds like refrain, refresh

  4. RI4 — a natural body of running water smaller than a river; beck; bourn; brook; brooklet sounds like bill, chill, dill, d**, fill

RO

  1. RO4 — to be in a state of violent rolling motion; to make angry; boil; churn; moil sounds like boil, b**, coil, foil, oil

acacia, acai, affair, aioli, airfoil, aria, aril, calico, caloric, calorific, carioca, ciao, cilia, circa, cirri, cliff, cocci, coif, coil, coir, colic, colorific, croci, facial, fail, fair, farcical, filial, fill, flail, flair, focaccia, foci, foil, folic, folio, frail, friar, frill, frolic, iliac, laic, laical, lair, liar, lilac, lira, loci, official, olio, racial, raffia, rail, railcar, rial, riff, riffraff, rill, roil