In the title compound, C23H17FO2, the cyclo-hexenone ring has an envelope conformation, the flap atom being the C atom to which the phenyl ring is attached. The 4-fluoro-benzoyl ring and the phenyl ring are inclined to one another by 28.77 (7)°, and by 52.00 (7) and 44.77 (7) °, respectively, to the aromatic ring fused to the cyclo-hexenone ring. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked via C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming a two-dimensional network lying parallel to (100).