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

Letters: i  a  b  d  l  r  z

• Total Answers: 36
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AI

1. AI7 — sounds like aerial, arable, ball, bawl, brawl

AL

3. AL5 — an explanation that frees one from fault or blame; as in explain, rationalize; apology; defense; excuse sounds like blubber, caliber, club, clubbed, clubby

AR

5. AR4 — a melody in an opera sung by one person; art song; barcarole; blues; chanson
6. AR4 — causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; marked by little or no precipitation or humidity; boring; colorless; drab sounds like acid, added, avid
7. AR4 — sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, aural

BA

9. BA4 — as in bond, recognizance; as in loop, bow; as in hod; bond; recognizance sounds like ail, ale

BI

11. BI8 — sounds like bubble, bumble, collegial, colonial, gullible
12. BI4 — a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs due; a piece of printed paper used as money in the United States; a sheet bearing an announcement for posting in a public place; account; check sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, been
13. BI8 — sounds like beleaguered, beloved, blurred, build, builder
14. BI8 — sounds like radial
15. BI4 — a member of the human race; a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; to go after or on the track of; baby; being sounds like bad, bade, bead, bed, berg

BL

17. BL8 — a severe storm with a large amount of falling snow; an overwhelming influx or flow of something; snowstorm; cloudburst; hailstorm sounds like lizard

BR

19. BR5 — a length of something formed of three or more strands woven together; to form into a braid; lace; lacing; plait sounds like bade, blade
20. BR5 — sounds like barrier
21. BR6 — a ceremony in which two people are united in matrimony; as in prenuptial; espousal; marriage; nuptial(s) sounds like beadle, bible

DI

23. DI4 — to make a telephone call to; as in face, gauge; as in button, switch; call; phone sounds like dowel, dual, duel, dull, vial
24. DI4 — sounds like bill, chill, dale, deal, dear

DR

26. DR4 — sounds like crib, rib
27. DR5 — an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity; something done over and over in order to develop skill; to make a hole or series of holes in; grind; groove sounds like dill, frill, grill, grille, rill

LA

29. LA5 — sounds like abbey, lobbied, lobby, phobia, shabby
30. LA6 — sounds like babble, dabble, libel, liberal, lineal
31. LA4 — to arrange something in a certain spot or position; to cause to come to rest at the bottom (as of a liquid); to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; deposed; deposited sounds like aid, aide, bade, blade, fade
32. LA4 — a place where a person goes to hide or to avoid others; the shelter or resting place of a wild animal; a place set aside for sleeping; concealment; covert sounds like air, bare, bear, blare, care

LI

34. LI4 — a person who tells lies; fabricator; fabulist; fibber; prevaricator sounds like buyer, fire, flier, flyer, higher
35. LI4 — sounds like leery
36. LI6 — a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance; a man given to seducing women; beau; Beau Brummell; buck sounds like blizzard, wizard

RA

38. RA5 — as in teacher, scholar; brain; genius; highbrow; intellect sounds like abbey, ally, buy, cab, crab
39. RA5 — being very far from the center of public opinion; feeling or showing anger; marked by bursts of destructive force or intense activity; extreme; extremist sounds like batted, bid, cabbage, crabbed, forbid
40. RA6 —
41. RA5 — as in diameters; diameters; equators; perimeters; peripheries sounds like audio, bodied, body, oddly, readied
42. RA4 — a sudden attack on and entrance into hostile territory; the act or action of setting upon with force or violence; to enter for conquest or plunder; descent; foray sounds like aid, aide, bade, b**, fade
43. RA4 — a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports; a roadway overlaid with parallel steel rails over which trains travel; as in revile, rant; balustrade; banister sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
44. RA8 — sounds like labored, tailored

RI

46. RI4 — sounds like dial, royal, t**, vial
47. RI6 — depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society; hinting at or intended to call to mind matters regarded as indecent; bawdy; blue; coarse
48. RI4 — a natural body of running water smaller than a river; beck; bourn; brook; brooklet sounds like bill, chill, dill, d**, fill