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

Letters: b  a  c  m  n  o  t

• Total Answers: 38
• Pangrams: 2
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AB

1. AB5 — as in bishop, archbishop; archbishop; archpriest; bishop; dean sounds like agate, but, butt, habit, rabbit

BA

3. BA4 — sounds like bobby
4. BA6 — sounds like buffoon
5. BA5 — sounds like beacon, beckon, shaken, taken
6. BA6 — sounds like amber, bimbo, shampoo, taboo
7. BA6 — as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza
8. BA4 — sounds like blank, bunk, dank, hank, rank
9. BA6 — of a size that is less than average; as in peewee, dwarf; diminutive; dinky; dwarfish sounds like phantom
10. BA6 — sounds like blob, blobby, bobby, bombast, buyback
11. BA5 — a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment; bastinado; bat; billy; billy club sounds like button

BO

13. BO4 — a small buoyant structure for travel on water; a large craft for travel by water; to travel on water in a vessel; bottom; craft sounds like bait, bat, beat, beau, beet
14. BO7 — sounds like baseman, beaten, bitten, button, coachman
15. BO4 —
16. BO6 — sounds like angst, backed, baked, banked, bark
17. BO4 — something that has failed; a very large amount of money; to attack with a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once; bummer; bust sounds like balmy, bam, bar, beam
18. BO6 — sounds like bargain, carbon, robin
19. BO6 — sounds like banjo, barb, barbed, barber, barrio
20. BO4 — an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; to make a mistake; an electronic device with a screen and speakers that reproduces images and sound; blunder; bobble sounds like babe, bib, buoy
21. BO6 — an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy; blunder; bobble; boob; brick
22. BO4 — a loud explosive sound; to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or number; to make a long loud deep noise or cry; bang; blast sounds like balm, bam, beam, bloom
23. BO4 — likely to seek or enjoy the company of others; a thing that helps; an act of kind assistance; clubbable; clubby sounds like ban, bane, bean, been, bin
24. BO4 — a pleasurably intense stimulation of the feelings; to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way; to drive or force out; bang; charge sounds like bait, bat, beat, beet, bet
25. BO6 — the side or part facing downward from something; the surface upon which a body of water lies; the lowest part, place, or point; underbelly; underbody

CA

27. CA6 — as in camp, tent; cabin; camp; hooch; hovel sounds like banana, command, kimono
28. CA8 — an underground burial chamber; crypt; vault

CO

30. CO4 — to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something; as in weed (out); as in roach, ducktail; dig (through); dredge sounds like calm, came, chrome
31. CO6 — to oppose (someone) in physical conflict; to strive to reduce or eliminate; active fighting during the course of a war; battle; clash (with) sounds like bombast
32. CO9 — a person, group, or country that fights in a war or battle; belligerent; dogface; fighter; legionary sounds like non*
33. CO5 — as in group, ensemble; ensemble; group; brasses; strings sounds like bimbo, calm, calmer, calming, calmly

MA

35. MA5 — as in rattlesnake, cobra; adder; anaconda; asp; black racer
36. MA5 — as in tango, jive; boogie; bop; fox-trot; gavotte sounds like mumbo

NA

38. NA5 — one of high position or importance within a group; big; big boy; big cheese; big gun sounds like abbot, babble, cabin, dabble, habit
39. NA7 — sounds like cannot, robot

NO

41. NO12 — as in civilian; civilian sounds like combatant
42. NO4 — sounds like knew, knob, lube, nab, new

TA

44. TA5 — as in no-no; as in anathema, abomination; that may not be permitted; no-no; ban

TO

46. TO7 — sounds like tableau
47. TO4 — a final resting place for a dead person; to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea; burial; grave; sepulchre sounds like boom, doom, loom, room, tam