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NYT 🐝 Clues—Thu. 5 January, 2023

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

Letters: f  e  g  i  l  n  u

  • Total Answers: 48
  • Pangrams: 4
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

EL

  1. EL5 — having an often mysterious or magical power to attract synonyms—alluring, appealing, attractive, bewitching, captivating sounds like—coffin, delphic, fin, selfish, sellin

EN

  1. EN6 — to cover with a flood synonyms—deluge, drown, flood, gulf, inundate sounds like—gulf, indulge, insult
  2. EN9 — to cover with a flood synonyms—deluging, drowning, flooding, gulfing, inundating sounds like—insulting

FE

  1. 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 synonyms—perceive, scent, see, sense, smell sounds like—deal, eel, fail, fall, field
  2. FE7 — a subjective response to a person, thing, or situation; general emotional condition; an idea that is believed to be true or valid without positive knowledge synonyms—chord, emotion, passion, sentiment, heartstrings sounds like—ceiling, falling, filing, fling, healing
  3. FE5 — to present a false appearance of synonyms—act, affect, assume, bluff, counterfeit sounds like—arraign, bane, cane, chain, face
  4. FE8 — as in pretense, hoax synonyms—counterfeit, fake, forgery, hoax, humbug sounds like—caning, facing, fading, fining, finish
  5. FE6 — a small domestic animal known for catching mice synonyms—cat, house cat, kitty, moggy, puss sounds like—airline, align, byline, fallen, field
  6. FE4 — to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall; to bring down by cutting; to deprive of life synonyms—bowl (down or over), down, drop, floor, knock down sounds like—bell, cell, dell, fail, fair
  7. FE7 — to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall; to bring down by cutting; to deprive of life synonyms—bowling (down or over), downing, dropping, flooring, knocking down sounds like—falling, filing, fling, selling
  8. FE6 — a ** (Foeniculum vulgare azoricum) cultivated for its edible bulbous stem base —called also finocchio sounds like—final, funnel, kennel

FI

  1. FI4 — a region of activity, knowledge, or influence synonyms—area, arena, bailiwick, barony, business sounds like—beef, chief, feat, fee, feed
  2. FI4 — a rail about the mast near the deck to which rigging is belayed sounds like—knife, life, rife, wife
  3. FI6 —
  4. FI4 — to make smooth by friction synonyms—buff, grind, hone, rasp, rub sounds like—aisle, bile, fail, fall, feel
  5. FI6 — as in document, form synonyms—blank, document, form, paper, instrument sounds like—falling, feeling, fling, piling
  6. 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 synonyms—brim, charge, cram, heap, jam sounds like—bill, chill, dill, fail, fall
  7. FI7 — soft material that is used to fill the hollow parts of something synonyms—fill, filler, padding, stuffing, wadding sounds like—billing, chilling, falling, feeling, fling
  8. FI4 — consisting of very small particles; made or done with extreme care and accuracy; being of less than usual width synonyms—dusty, floury, powdery, delicate, exact sounds like—dine, fan, fawn, feign, fern
  9. FI6 — to establish or apply as a charge or penalty synonyms—assessing, charging, exacting, imposing, laying sounds like—dining, shining

FL

  1. FL4 — to cease to be visible; to get free from a dangerous or confining situation; to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening synonyms—dematerialize, disappear, dissolve, evanesce, evaporate sounds like—alley, awfully, early, fee, filly
  2. FL7 — to cease to be visible; to get free from a dangerous or confining situation; to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening synonyms—dematerializing, disappearing, dissolving, evanescing, evaporating
  3. FL5 — a time or instance of carefree fun; an effort to do or accomplish something; a brief romantic relationship synonyms—binge, frisk, frolic, gambol, idyll sounds like—ailing, cling, falling, feeling, filing
  4. FL8 — to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm synonyms—casting, catapulting, chucking, dashing, firing
  5. FL4 — as in chimney, smokestack synonyms—chimney, chimney stack, smokestack, channel, conduit sounds like—blew, blue, clue, few
  6. FL5 — a soft airy substance or covering; an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy synonyms—down, floss, fur, fuzz, lint sounds like—bluff, slough
  7. FL8 — to make a mistake; to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way synonyms—blundering, boobing, erring, flubbing, fouling up
  8. FL5 — to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm synonyms—cast, catapulted, chucked, dashed, fired sounds like—clung, lung, slung

FU

  1. FU4 — something with a usable capacity for doing work synonyms—energy, power sounds like—feudal
  2. FU7 — as in pushing, charging synonyms—charging, electrifying, energizing, firing, generating sounds like—dwelling, falling, feeling, fiddling, filing
  3. FU4 — any of various very poisonous puffer fishes (family Tetraodontidae) that contain tetrodotoxin and that are used as food in Japan after the toxin-containing parts are removed sounds like—boogie, few, fig, flew, flu
  4. FU5 — a musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed in a continuous interweaving of the voice parts; something that resembles a * especially in interweaving repetitive elements; a disturbed state of consciousness in which the one affected seems to perform acts in full awareness but upon recovery cannot recollect the acts performed sounds like—feud, few, fewer
  5. FU7 — to do what is required by the terms of; to carry through (as a process) to completion synonyms—answer, complete, comply (with), fill, keep sounds like—footfall, foothill
  6. FU10 — making one feel good inside synonyms—cheering, comforting, encouraging, gladdening, gratifying
  7. FU4 — containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible; of the highest degree; having one's appetite completely satisfied synonyms—brimful, brimming, bursting, chockablock, chock-** sounds like—bull, fail, fall, feel, fell
  8. FU5 —
  9. FU6 — to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway synonyms—canalize, channel, channelize, conduct, direct sounds like—fennel, final, tunnel
  10. FU9 — to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway synonyms—canalizing, channeling, channelizing, conducting, directing sounds like—bustling, foundling, guzzling, paneling, phenolic

GL

  1. GL7 — indicative of or marked by high spirits or good humor synonyms—blithe, blithesome, festive, gay, jocose

GU

  1. GU4 — language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense synonyms—applesauce, balderdash, baloney, beans, bilge sounds like—buff, cuff, gaffe, goof, gruff
  2. GU8 — clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means; given to or marked by cheating and deception synonyms—artful, beguiling, cagey, crafty, cunning sounds like—baleful, doleful, gainful, gleeful, rifle
  3. GU4 — a part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shoreline; an immeasurable depth or space; a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage synonyms—arm, bay, bight, cove, creek sounds like—golf

IN

  1. IN6 — material that fills in something (such as a hole or the spaces between a building's structural members); new buildings constructed in the space available between existing structures —often used before another noun sounds like—fill, refill
  2. IN9 — material that fills in something (such as a hole or the spaces between a building's structural members); new buildings constructed in the space available between existing structures —often used before another noun sounds like—unfailing, unwilling

LI

  1. LI4 — a history of a person's **; a member of the human race; active strength of body or mind synonyms—bio, biography, memoir, baby, being sounds like—knife, laugh, leaf
  2. LI8 — a line (such as a rope) used for saving or preserving life: such as; a line along the outer edge of the deck of a boat or ship; a line used to keep contact with a person (such as a diver or astronaut) in a dangerous or potentially dangerous situation

UN

  1. UN9 — having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings; lacking in sensation or feeling; lacking animate awareness or sensation synonyms—affectless, callous, case-hardened, cold-blooded, compassionless
  2. UN12 — not providing happiness or satisfaction : not fulfilling

elfin, engulf, engulfing, feel, feeling, feign, feigning, feline, fell, felling, fennel, fief, fife, fifing, file, filing, fill, filling, fine, fining, flee, fleeing, fling, flinging, flue, fluff, fluffing, flung, fuel, fueling, fugu, fugue, fulfill, fulfilling, full, fungi, funnel, funneling, gleeful, guff, guileful, gulf, infill, infilling, life, lifeline, unfeeling, unfulfilling