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

Letters: p  a  e  h  l  u  v

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

AL

1. AL5 — sounds like leaf
2. AL5 — the point at which something begins; as in be-all and end-all; as in center, core; baseline; beginning

AP

4. AP6 — to cause an unpleasant surprise for; floor; jolt; shake up; shock
5. AP6 — an earnest request; the power of irresistible attraction; as in cite, book; adjuration; conjuration sounds like peal, peel, spiel
6. AP8 — as in defendant, plaintiff; accuser; appellant; petitioner; pleader sounds like belly, especially, jelly, lapel
7. AP5 — to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior; a person who flatters another in order to get ahead; to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior; bootlick; fawn sounds like addle, agile, ample, annul, chapel

EP

9. EP4 — sounds like easy, pea

HE

11. HE4 — a considerable amount; a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; to give readily and in large quantities; abundance; barrel sounds like beep, c**, deep, hip
12. HE4 — to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; to make more bearable or less severe; to keep from happening by taking action in advance; abet; aid sounds like kelp

LA

14. LA5 — sounds like appall, appeal, compel, couple, gazelle

LE

16. LE4 — an act of leaping into the air; to propel oneself upward or forward into the air; a sudden large change or improvement; bound; hop sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep

PA

18. PA6 —
19. PA6 — sounds like plaza, plop
20. PA4 — lacking intensity of color; lacking a healthy skin color; not seen or understood clearly; dull; dulled sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
21. PA4 — a boxlike container for holding a dead body; an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom; something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth; bier; box sounds like doll, loll, peal, pearl, peel
22. PA4 — as in palpate; palpate; feel; touch; brush sounds like pulp
23. PA4 — a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man sounds like pop, poppy
24. PA5 — as in priestly, apostolic; apostolic; canonical; clerical; episcopal sounds like maple, people, purple
25. PA4 — to free from obstruction or difficulty; ease; facilitate; grease; loosen (up) sounds like cave, gave

PE

27. PE4 — to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates; as in ring, chime; bong; chime; knell sounds like ap**, deal, eel, feel, heal
28. PE4 — to remove the natural covering of; to rid oneself of (a garment); to leave a place often for another; bark; flay sounds like appeal, deal, eel, feel, heal
29. PE4 — an instance of looking especially briefly; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cast; eye; gander sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep
30. PE5 — something that is a source of irritation; the feeling of being offended or resentful after a slight or indignity; to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts; aggravation; aggro sounds like eave, eve, heave, leave, pave

PL

32. PL4 — an earnest request; an explanation that frees one from fault or blame; to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for; adjuration; appeal sounds like alley, early, flea, flee, glee

PU

34. PU4 — to utter feeble plaintive cries; bleat; mewl; whimper sounds like mule, pew, pool
35. PU4 — to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to draw out by force or with effort; to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure; drag; draw sounds like bull, full, pail, pal, pale
36. PU4 — to cause to become a pulpy mass; as in novel, novelette; crush; mash; squash sounds like gulp
37. PU4 — as in larva, nymph; larva; naiad; nymph sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop
38. PU5 — as in larvae, nymphs; larvae; naiads; nymphs sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop
39. PU5 — sounds like papal, people, poodle

UP

41. UP8 — a violent disturbance (as of the political or social order); bouleversement; cataclysm; convulsion; earthquake sounds like approval
42. UP7 — to lift with effort; boost; heave; heft; hoist sounds like achieve, apiece, appeal, appease

VA

44. VA4 — sounds like ape, cape, rape, shape, tape

VE

46. VE4 — sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep