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

Letters: l  a  c  h  n  t  u

• Total Answers: 42
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AC

1. AC6 — existing in fact and not merely as a possibility; concrete; de facto; effective; existent sounds like f**

AN

3. AN4 — extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise; extremely or overly neat, careful, or precise; as in perversity, waywardness; anal-retentive; obsessive sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null
4. AN5 — sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null
5. AN6 — occurring once every year; a book or magazine that is published once a year; yearly; bimonthly; biweekly sounds like manual
6. AN5 — to balance with an equal force so as to make ineffective; to put an end to by formal action; cancel (out); compensate (for); correct sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null

CA

8. CA4 — to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like all, ball, bawl, coal, cog
9. CA5 — to speak so as to be heard at a distance; to make a telephone call to; to make a brief visit; bawl; bay sounds like cola, gala
10. CA5 — an open man-made passageway for water; aqueduct; channel; conduit; course sounds like banal, colonel, conceal, concur, confer
11. CA7 — sounds like annals, annul
12. CA7 — a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; as in deride, jeer; bird; boo; Bronx cheer
13. CA8 — something that holds or includes many different things; detritus; notions; oddments; odds and ends sounds like crawl
14. CA4 — sounds like coal, cock, cod, coil, collar

CH

16. CH7 — sounds like gala

CL

18. CL4 — a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially; a group of persons who come from the same ancestor; body; bunch; circle sounds like can
19. CL6 — a number of things considered as a unit; a usually small number of persons considered as a unit; a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action; array; assemblage sounds like crutch

CU

21. CU4 — something separated from a group or lot for not being as good as the others; to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities; discard; reject; rejection sounds like call, coal, coil, color, come
22. CU4 — a group of people showing intense devotion to a cause, person, or work (as a film); a body of beliefs and practices regarding the supernatural and the worship of one or more deities; audience; followership; following sounds like color, colt, kilt

HA

24. HA5 —
25. HA4 — the entrance room of a building; a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building; a large room or building for enclosed public gatherings; entranceway; entry sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
26. HA4 — to bring (something) to a standstill; to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end; to come to an end; arrest; bring up sounds like fault, hilt, malt, salt, vault
27. HA4 — to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to support and take from one place to another; the total amount collected or obtained especially at one time; drag; draw sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall

HU

29. HU4 — sounds like cholla, cola, cool, cooled, cooler
30. HU4 — something that encloses another thing especially to protect it; to remove the natural covering of; armor; capsule; case sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hail

LA

32. LA6 — a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number; an incomplete or deficient area; crunch; dearth; deficiency sounds like cocoon
33. LA7 — sounds like antenna
34. LA5 — to close or secure (something, such as a door) with a latch; as in take, snap (up); adhere; bolt; cinch sounds like batch, catch, hatch
35. LA4 — sounds like bath
36. LA6 — to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of; to take the first step in (a process or course of action); to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm; begin; constitute sounds like lunch, lynch

LU

38. LU4 — as in barbecue, cookout; barbecue; clambake; cookout; fry sounds like lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose
39. LU4 — a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
40. LU4 — something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
41. LU4 — sounds like loon, loony, tuna
42. LU5 — as in dinner, breakfast; as in breakfast, sup; the middle of the day; breakfast; buffet sounds like bunch, hunch, launch, lynch, munch
43. LU6 — sounds like lonely, loon, loony, loosely, manila

NA

45. NA5 — sounds like fatal, nettle

NU

47. NU4 — having no legal or binding force; having no usefulness; to put an end to by formal action; bad; inoperative sounds like annul, cul, cull, dull, gull

TA

49. TA7 — sounds like actual, factual
50. TA4 — sounds like torque
51. TA4 — extending to a great distance upward; requiring considerable physical or mental effort; as in yacht, sailboat; altitudinous; high sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall

UL

53. UL4 — sounds like alas, alert, alight, align, aligned

UN

55. UN8 — sounds like analyse, clutch
56. UN7 — as in unfasten, unlock; unbar; unbolt; unclasp; unfasten sounds like alas, attach, latch, snatch