NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 23 March, 2023

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

Letters: o  a  f  l  r  u  v

  • Total Answers: 32
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AF

  1. AF5 — sounds like fool, foul, fowl

  2. AF4 — sounds like arrow

AL

  1. AL5 — having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; antisocial; asocial; buttoned-up; cold

AU

  1. AU6 — the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; day sounds like drawer, flora, roar, trauma

  2. AU7 — the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance; cockcrow; dawn; dawning; day sounds like corporal, oracle, oral

FA

  1. FA7 — the amount by which something is lessened; to turn away from a straight line or course; abatement; decline; decrease sounds like flaw, flawed, floor, fluff

  2. FA5 — sounds like borrow, follow, morrow, sorrow

  3. FA5 — an act of kind assistance; a feeling of great approval and liking; an acceptance of something as satisfactory; benevolence; boon sounds like fervor, fever, flavor, saver, savor

FL

  1. FL6 — a special quality or impression associated with something; something (as a spice or herb) that adds an agreeable or interesting taste to food; the property of a substance that can be identified by the sense of taste; air; ambience sounds like favor

  2. FL9 — very pleasing to the sense of taste; a special quality or impression associated with something; something (as a spice or herb) that adds an agreeable or interesting taste to food; ambrosial; appetizing sounds like faithful, fateful, favorable, playful

  3. FL5 — the surface upon which a body of water lies; to cause an unpleasant surprise for; to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected; bed; bottom sounds like for, fore, four, lore

  4. FL5 — green leaves or plants; foliage; green; greenery; herbage

  5. FL6 — of or relating to flowers; flowered; flowery sounds like laurel

  6. FL5 — sounds like glower

FO

  1. FO4 — as in filly, colt; colt; filly; gelding; mare sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, fail

  2. FO4 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; a person formerly kept in a royal or noble household to amuse with jests and pranks; a person with a strong and habitual liking for something; berk; booby sounds like cool, fail, fall, feel, fell

  3. FO4 — a meeting featuring a group discussion; a place or opportunity for communicating ideas and information; an assembly of persons for the administration of justice; colloquies; conferences sounds like aura, fauna, flora

  4. FO4 — marked by wet and windy conditions; not being in accordance with the rules or standards of what is fair in sport; causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment; bleak; dirty sounds like fail, fall, feel, fell, file

  5. FO4 — a disrespectful or indecent word or expression; of the very best kind; as in haut monde, beautiful people; curse; cuss sounds like boar, bore, chore, core, door

FR

  1. FR8 — as in frippery, finery; apparel; bells and whistles; blazonry; bric-a-brac sounds like accrue, fluff, fluffy, gruff, prefer

FU

  1. FU5 — a state of noisy, confused activity; a state of wildly excited activity or emotion; an intense emotional state of displeasure with someone or something; ado; alarums and excursions

LO

  1. LO4 — to spend time doing nothing; as in reason, noodle; bum; chill; dally sounds like laugh, leaf, life

  2. LO4 — to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; droop; flag sounds like doll, lat, lull, pall

  3. LO5 — sounds like aloof, alpha, goof, goofy, hoof

OF

  1. OF5 — discarded or useless material; chaff; deadwood; debris; dreck sounds like waffle

OR

  1. OR4 — expressed or communicated by voice; made or carried on through speaking rather than in writing; spoken; uttered; vocal sounds like aura, ch, c, laurel, m**

OV

  1. OV4 — having the shape of an egg; as in egg, ellipse; elliptical; ovate; ovoid sounds like evil, ogle

  2. OV6 —

RO

  1. RO4 — a violent shouting; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound; to make a long loud deep noise or cry; clamor; howl sounds like boar, bore, chore, core, door

  2. RO4 — to form into a round compact mass; to make a low heavy rolling sound; to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions; agglomerate; ball sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal

  3. 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

VA

  1. VA5 — strength of mind to carry on in spite of danger; bottle; bravery; courage; courageousness

afoul, afro, aloof, aurora, auroral, falloff, farro, favor, flavor, flavorful, floor, flora, floral, flour, foal, fool, fora, foul, four, froufrou, furor, loaf, loll, loofa, offal, oral, oval, ovular, roar, roll, roof, valor