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

Letters: c  a  b  f  i  k  l

• Total Answers: 34
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AB

1. AB5 — sounds like hibachi
2. AB5 — without warning; to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected; to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected; suddenly; unanticipatedly sounds like attack, back

AC

4. AC6 — sounds like occasion
5. AC4 — sounds like occur, sky

AL

7. AL5 — used to express sorrow or distress; alas; ay; wirra; woe sounds like attack, black, flak, lack, lak

BA

9. BA7 — sounds like facile, ghastly, lastly, massively, passel
10. BA4 — earlier than the present time; toward the opposite direction; toward the rear; ago; agone
11. BA8 — to promote the interests or cause of; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea); advocate; champion

BI

13. BI8 — relating to, taken from, or found in the Bible; scriptural; blessed; consecrate; consecrated

BL

15. BL5 — having the color of soot or coal; causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer; not having a light complexion; ebony; pitch-black sounds like back, flak, lack, lak
16. BL9 — to reject by or as if by a vote; as in veto; as in banishment, ostracism; down; kill

CA

18. CA5 — a group involved in secret or criminal activities; as in team (up), collaborate; conspiracy; crew; gang sounds like banal, bubble, cobble, collage, couple
19. CA6 — sounds like cobble, cobbler
20. CA4 — the muscular back part of the leg below the knee; as in puppy love; as in puppy loves; drumstick; ham sounds like chaff, cough
21. 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
22. 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
23. CA8 — as in message, conference call; cold call; conference call; message; toll call sounds like comeback, cutback, fallback, fullback, halfback

CI

25. CI5 — sounds like psyllium, sillier, silly

CL

27. CL5 — to make a series of short sharp noises; as in clatter, cackle; clatter; rattle; cackle sounds like black
28. CL5 — to form a close personal relationship; to turn out as planned or desired; bond; commune; relate sounds like flick
29. CL5 — a steep wall of rock, earth, or ice; something (as a close contest) that induces much suspense as to its outcome; as in resident, resider; barranca; bluff

FA

31. FA6 — sounds like racial
32. FA8 — to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable); to use or seek out as a source of aid, relief, or advantage; back away; drop back; pull out sounds like fullback

FL

34. FL5 — sounds like black
35. FL5 — to make an irregular series of quick, sudden movements; a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track; as in shut off, turn off; dance; dart sounds like click

IL

37. IL5 — sounds like black, bleak, clique, elite, flak

KI

39. KI4 — to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to present an opposing opinion or argument; a pleasurably intense stimulation of the feelings; beef; bellyache sounds like cake, chick, click, cock, coke
40. KI8 — to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; as in backlash; bask; loll sounds like comeback, cookbook, cutback, giveback
41. KI8 — sounds like pinball

LA

43. LA4 — the fact or state of being absent; a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number; a state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful; absence; dearth sounds like back, b**, flak, hack, jack
44. LA4 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like lick
45. LA6 — as in lay, nonclerical; lay; nonclerical; atheistic; godless sounds like cul, cull, local, loyal, lull

LI

47. LI4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; a very small amount; the smallest amount or part imaginable; bang; bash sounds like chick, c, dick, f, hick
48. LI5 — sounds like black, buyback, eyelash, flak, hijack