Ben Willenbring

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NYT 🐝 Cluesβ€”Wed. 28 June, 2023

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

Letters: f  g  i  l  n  o  p

  • Total Answers: 32
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🀣

FI

  1. FI6 β€”
  2. FI6 β€” as in document, form; to make smooth by friction; to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group; blank; document sounds like falling, feeling, fling, piling
  3. FI4 β€” 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
  4. FI7 β€” soft material that is used to fill the hollow parts of something; as in overfilling, satiating; to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained; fill; filler sounds like billing, chilling, falling, feeling, fling
  5. FI6 β€” a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; to give life, vigor, or spirit to; bang; bash; bat sounds like billet, billon, bishop, buildup, dollop
  6. FI6 β€” to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; to remove usually visible impurities from; to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; assessing; charging sounds like dining, shining

FL

  1. FL5 β€” a time or instance of carefree fun; an effort to do or accomplish something; a brief romantic relationship; binge; frisk sounds like ailing, cling, falling, feeling, filing
  2. FL8 β€” to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm; to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm; to get rid of as useless or unwanted; casting; catapulting
  3. FL4 β€” to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner; to change the position of (an object) so that the opposite side or end is showing; making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred; leaf; riffle sounds like blip, clip, lip, slip
  4. FL8 β€” a changing from one policy or point of view to virtually its exact opposite; as in yo-yo; about-face; about-turn; reversal sounds like fillip
  5. FL12 β€” as in yo-yoing; a changing from one policy or point of view to virtually its exact opposite; yo-yoing; equivocating; fudging
  6. FL8 β€” to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner; to change the position of (an object) so that the opposite side or end is showing; to turn over pages in an idle or cursory manner; leafing; riffling sounds like clipping
  7. FL4 β€” to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; to strike repeatedly; to move heavily or clumsily; birch; cowhide sounds like clog, fog, frog, slog
  8. FL8 β€” as in whipping, thrashing; to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible; to strike repeatedly; assault; attack
  9. FL4 β€” something that has failed; to throw or set down clumsily or casually; to be unsuccessful; bomb; bummer sounds like glop, lop, plop, slop
  10. FL8 β€” as in failing, collapsing; to throw or set down clumsily or casually; to be unsuccessful; collapsing; failing sounds like lopping

FO

  1. FO7 β€” to make (something) unclear to the understanding; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; to make (something) unclear to the understanding; beclouding; befogging sounds like falling, jogging
  2. FO4 β€” 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
  3. FO7 β€” as in thwarting, frustrating; as in thwarting, determent; to prevent from achieving a goal; baffling; balking sounds like falling, feeling, filing, fling, roiling
  4. FO5 β€” as in quarto; quarto; hardback; hardcover; paper sounds like polio
  5. FO4 β€” 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
  6. FO7 β€” marked by or expressive of mild or good-natured teasing; as in fraud, deception; to cause to believe what is untrue; bantering; chaffing sounds like falling, feeling, filing, fling, ruling

GO

  1. GO4 β€” sounds like gulf
  2. GO7 β€” sounds like falling, following, galling, gilding, glowing
  3. GO4 β€” an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; a stupid person; to spend time in aimless activity; blunder; bobble sounds like gaffe, hoof, poof, roof, woof
  4. GO7 β€” to spend time in aimless activity; to spend time doing nothing; to make a mistake; doodle; fiddle (around) sounds like roofing

IN

  1. IN6 β€” sounds like fill, refill
  2. IN9 β€” sounds like unfailing, unwilling
  3. IN4 β€” a report of recent events or facts not previously known; 411; advice(s); gen; information

OF

  1. OF6 β€” time that is to come; to put to death deliberately; to put to death deliberately; by-and-by; future

PI

  1. PI8 β€” so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention; as in muddling, blundering; chicken; de minimis; footling

PO

  1. PO4 β€” sounds like goof, hoof, proof, puff, roof

fifing, filing, fill, filling, fillip, fining, fling, flinging, flip, flipflop, flipflopping, flipping, flog, flogging, flop, flopping, fogging, foil, foiling, folio, fool, fooling, golf, golfing, goof, goofing, infill, infilling, info, offing, piffling, poof