NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• affably in an affable manner
• alfalfa important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop
• bailiff an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
• biff strike, usually with the fist
• fail fall short in what is expected
• fall fall from clouds
• fallibly
• fanny external female sex organs
• filial relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring
• filially relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring
• fill appoint someone to (a position or a job)
• filly a young female horse under the age of four
• final not to be altered or undone
• finally as the end result of a succession or process
• finial an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis
• flab loose or flaccid body fat
• flabby out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
• flail move like a flail; thresh about
• flan open pastry filled with fruit or custard
• flay strip the skin off
• flyby
• iffy subject to accident or chance or change
• infallibly
• infill
• naif marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience