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

Letters: b  a  e  i  l  n  p

• Total Answers: 55
• Pangrams: 2
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AB

1. AB4 — having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance; enjoying health and vigor; as in lubber, able seaman; capable; competent sounds like c, f, g, h, herbal

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

AP

5. AP10 — to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner; beg; beseech; besiege; conjure sounds like achievable, available, peaceable

BA

7. BA4 — sounds like bobby
8. BA6 — unintelligible or meaningless talk; to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly; to engage in casual or rambling conversation; abracadabra; blabber sounds like bible, bubble, dabble, rabble
9. BA4 — a person who is just starting out in a field of activity; a recently born person; a lovely woman; abecedarian; apprentice
10. BA5 — a place of uproar or confusion; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound; bedlam; circus; madhouse sounds like bible, bubble, dabble, rabble
11. BA4 — as in bond, recognizance; as in loop, bow; as in hod; bond; recognizance sounds like ail, ale
12. BA6 — sounds like belly, bully, burley, burly, daily
13. BA4 — a large amount of a material (such as hay or wool) that is pressed together tightly and often tied or wrapped; bundle; pack; package; packet sounds like ail, ale
14. BA6 — sounds like alley
15. BA4 — a more or less round body or mass; a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm; a social gathering for dancing; globe; orb sounds like all, bell, bile, bill, boar
16. BA5 — lacking in qualities that make for spirit and character; used or heard so often as to be dull; flat; insipid; milk-and-water sounds like bizarre, bubble, buckle, bun, bunch
17. BA6 — as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza
18. BA4 — a source of harm or misfortune; a substance that by chemical action can kill or injure a living thing; affliction; curse; nemesis sounds like arraign

BE

20. BE4 — the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; active strength of body or mind; language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; block; dome sounds like ban, bane
21. BE8 — sounds like baseball, pinball
22. BE6 — sounds like bony, bunny, genie
23. BE7 — a quickly followed straight or direct course; as in put, take off; as in arrow; dash; scramble sounds like byline, feline
24. BE4 — to have life; to occupy a place or location; to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes; breathed; existed sounds like ban, bane, bib, bid, big
25. BE4 — as in buzz; buzz; call; dial; phone
26. BE5 — to give a misleading impression of; to prove to be false; to keep secret or shut off from view; misrepresent; confound sounds like bilk, bill, billed, billow, build
27. BE4 — as in howl, wail; as in jeans, corduroys; a person in overall command of a ship; caterwaul; howl sounds like bail, bale, ball, bare, bawl
28. BE5 — as in peach, charmer; a period of high artistic or cultural development; a period of high artistic or cultural development; charmer; peach sounds like bail, bale, ball, bare, bawl

BI

30. BI5 — a book made up of the writings accepted by Christians as coming from God; as in guide, guidebook; Book; Good Book; Holy Writ sounds like babble, bauble, bubble, libel
31. BI7 — sounds like bunny
32. BI8 — sounds like burial, perennial, triennial
33. BI8 — sounds like bubble, bumble, collegial, colonial, gullible
34. BI4 — biting sharpness of feeling or expression; acidity; acidness; acridity; acridness sounds like aisle, bail, bale, ball, bawl
35. 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
36. BI8 — sounds like syllable
37. BI7 — as in tilt-rotor, triplane; lightplane; tilt-rotor; towplane; trimotor sounds like airplane, byline, pipeline, plain, plane

BL

39. BL4 — to engage in casual or rambling conversation; to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature; as in chatter, babble; babble; cackle sounds like lab, slab
40. BL5 — as in remove, cut; blip; clip; cut; excise sounds like beep, leap, sleep
41. BL4 — as in crepe, blintze; blintze; crepe; oatcake; wheat cake sounds like been, bin
42. BL5 — as in crepes, blintzes; blintzes; crepes; oatcakes; wheat cakes sounds like baloney, beady, bean, beefy, bikini
43. BL4 — as in cut, remove; bleep; clip; cut; excise sounds like clip, flip, lip, slip

EN

45. EN6 — to make able or possible; to give official or legal power to; allow; empower; let sounds like unable

IN

47. IN11 —

LA

49. LA5 — a slip (as of paper or cloth) that is attached to something to identify or describe it; to attach an identifying slip to; to give a name to; marker; tag sounds like able, cable, fable, gable, hable
50. LA5 — sounds like abbey, lobbied, lobby, phobia, shabby
51. LA6 — sounds like babble, dabble, libel, liberal, lineal
52. LA6 — as in unstable, fluctuating; changing; fluctuating; inconstant; unstable sounds like cobble, gobble, hobble, libel, wobble

LI

54. LI6 — being in a situation where one is likely to meet with harm; being the one who must meet an obligation or suffer the consequences for failing to do so; endangered; exposed; open sounds like p**, viable
55. LI5 — the making of false statements that damage another's reputation; to make untrue and harmful statements about; aspersing; blackening; calumniation sounds like bible, label
56. LI7 —

NI

58. NI6 — a small piece or quantity of food; to eat reluctantly and in small bites; to crush or grind with the teeth; bite; morsel sounds like noble

PA

60. PA8 — able to be perceived by a sense or by the mind; capable of being perceived by the sense of touch; not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation; appreciable; apprehensible sounds like culpable, fallible, malleable, pliable, valuable

PE

62. PE6 — sounds like rebel
63. PE8 — to remove the natural covering of; to rid oneself of (a garment); bark; flay; hull

PI

65. PI7 —

PL

67. PL4 — as in commoner, plebeian; commoner; plebeian; prole; proletarian
68. PL5 — as in commoner, plebeian; commoner; plebeian; prole; proletarian
69. PL8 — belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank; as in commoner, prole; baseborn; common; humble sounds like eleven, leaden, leaven, lemon, lessen
70. PL7 — able to bend easily without breaking; capable of being readily changed; bendy; flexible; limber sounds like liable