NYT 🐝 Clues—Tue. 7 March, 2023

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

Letters: l  c  f  i  m  o  r

  • Total Answers: 28
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

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. 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

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

  3. CO5 — a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished; a substance used to color other materials; the hue or appearance of the skin and especially of the face; cast; hue sounds like caller, cul, cull

  4. CO9 — sounds like allergic, caloric

  5. CO4 — having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others; free from emotional or mental agitation; having a low or subnormal temperature; aloof; antisocial sounds like call, cul

FI

  1. 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

  2. FI4 — a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track; the art or business of making a movie; as in videotape; flick; flicker

FL

  1. 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

FO

  1. 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

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

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

  4. 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

FR

  1. 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

  2. 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

LI

  1. LI4 — sounds like lymph

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

  2. LO4 — having or showing a very abnormal or sick state of mind; to cause to go insane or as if insane; balmy; barmy; bats sounds like coco, cocoa

  3. 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

  4. LO4 — to be about to happen; brew; impend sounds like b, boom, doom, g, lamb

MI

  1. MI9 —

  2. MI4 — a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods; to reduce to fine particles; as in kick around, knock (about); factory; manufactory sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill

MO

  1. MO4 — a state of noisy, confused activity; very hard or unpleasant work; to devote serious and sustained effort; ado; alarums and excursions sounds like boil, coil, foil, mail, male

  2. MO4 — as in mistress; mistress; gal; gill; girl sounds like doll, loll, mail, male, mall

OL

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

RI

  1. 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

  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

cliff, coil, colic, color, colorific, cool, fill, film, floor, foil, folic, folio, fool, frill, frolic, limo, loci, loco, loll, loom, microfilm, mill, moil, moll, olio, rill, roil, roll