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

Letters: b  a  i  l  n  p  t

• Total Answers: 22
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

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

BA

3. BA4 — sounds like bobby
4. BA4 — as in bond, recognizance; as in loop, bow; as in hod; bond; recognizance sounds like ail, ale
5. BA4 — something used to attract animals to a hook or into a trap; something that persuades one to perform an action for pleasure or gain; to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; decoy; lure sounds like abate, ate
6. 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
7. 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
8. BA6 — as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza

BI

10. BI8 — sounds like bubble, bumble, collegial, colonial, gullible
11. 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

BL

13. 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
14. BL4 — to utter with a sudden burst of strong feeling; as in bleat, honk; blurt (out); bolt; cry (out) sounds like bat, brat, flat, slat
15. BL7 — engaging in or marked by loud and insistent cries especially of protest; very noticeable especially for being incorrect or bad; caterwauling; clamant; clamorous sounds like latent
16. BL4 — as in crepe, blintze; blintze; crepe; oatcake; wheat cake sounds like been, bin
17. BL5 — as in crepes, blintzes; blintzes; crepes; oatcakes; wheat cakes sounds like baloney, beady, bean, beefy, bikini
18. BL4 — as in cut, remove; bleep; clip; cut; excise sounds like clip, flip, lip, slip

LA

20. LA5 — sounds like abbey, lobbied, lobby, phobia, shabby
21. LA6 — sounds like babble, dabble, libel, liberal, lineal

PA

23. PA9 — sounds like pinball

PI

25. PI7 —

TA

27. TA5 —

TI

29. TI5 — sounds like phobia, tabby, trivia, tuba
30. TI6 — sounds like cereal, filial, liberal, lineal, nibble