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

Letters: a  e  i  l  n  v  y

• Total Answers: 57
• Pangrams: 2
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

1. AL5 — being, relating to, or characteristic of a country other than one's own; not being a vital part of or belonging to something; to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring; foreign; nonnative
2. AL5 — having or showing life; marked by much life, movement, or activity; being in effective operation; animate; breathing sounds like live
3. AL5 — to make more bearable or less severe; alleviate; assuage; ease; help sounds like away, clay, fillet, lay, play
4. AL6 — sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, lull
5. AL5 — a narrow passage between buildings; someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support; as in tabby; alleyway; arterial sounds like abbey, assay, dally, early, flea
6. AL4 — someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support; to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members; abettor; backer; bedfellow sounds like fly, lie, lye, ply, sleigh

AN

8. 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
9. AN6 —
10. AN5 — sounds like addle, agile, apple, channel, null
11. AN6 — to make stronger (as through hardship); temper; fortify; harden; indurate sounds like aunt
12. AN5 —

AV

14. AV5 — the capacity for being useful for some purpose; to provide with something useful or desirable; producing no results; account; mileage sounds like assail, unveil, veil
15. AV5 — sounds like alien

EA

17. EA4 — sounds like eel, eke, h, l, thieve

EL

19. EL4 — as in passion, ardor; as in life, world soul; ardor; fervor; fire sounds like align, alone, oven, sullen

IN

21. IN5 — having no meaning; as in vacuum; empty; meaningless; pointless
22. IN7 — having no meaning; empty; meaningless; pointless; senseless sounds like manly, nanny
23. IN5 — as in install, inset; cut in; inset; install; edge in

LA

25. LA4 — to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction; to occupy a place or location; to remain out of sight; borne; extended sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
26. LA5 — a covered structure adjoining an entrance to a building; gallery; piazza; porch; stoop sounds like cannot
27. LA4 — as in byway, laneway; bypath; byway; laneway; approach sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
28. LA4 — sounds like java
29. LA4 — to flow along or against; bathe; lap; lip; splash sounds like cave, gave

LE

31. LE4 — to set or cause to be at an angle; to show a liking or proneness (for something); to place reliance or trust; angle; cant sounds like bean, c, dean, gene, g
32. LE6 — having a noticeably small amount of body fat; bony; fatless; lithe; skinny sounds like c**, keenly, lonely
33. LE5 — to cause to remain behind; to give by means of a will; to give up (a job or office); abandon; desert sounds like eave, eve, heave
34. LE6 — as in enliven, invigorate; animate; charge; enliven; invigorate sounds like eleven, heaven, seven

LI

36. LI6 — as in straight, linear; linear; right; straight
37. LI8 —

NA

39. NA4 — sounds like con, don, john, knob, knock
40. NA4 — to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner; to make final, definite, or beyond dispute; to reveal the true nature of; bang; bash sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
41. NA5 — lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; free from any intent to deceive or impress others; readily taken advantage of; aw-shucks; dewy sounds like achieve, arrive, chive, dive, eave
42. NA7 — without any attempt to impress by deception or exaggeration; lacking in worldly wisdom or informed judgment; free from any intent to deceive or impress others; artlessly; guilelessly sounds like neatly, nobly
43. NA4 — sounds like manna
44. NA5 — a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children; babysitter; dry nurse; nurse; nursemaid sounds like canny, fanny
45. NA5 — of or relating to a country's navy; GI; gladiatorial; mercenary; soldierly sounds like novel
46. NA4 — sounds like cave, gave, nerve, pave, rave
47. NA5 — a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest; excessive interest in oneself; axis; base; capital sounds like novel
48. NA4 — as in convoy, flotilla; argosy; convoy; flotilla; armada sounds like nervy, wavy

VA

50. VA4 — having too high an opinion of oneself; producing no results; having no usefulness; assured; biggety sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
51. VA6 — having too high an opinion of oneself; producing no results; having no usefulness; assured; biggety sounds like mainly
52. VA4 — an area of lowland between hills or mountains; dale; dene; hollow; valley sounds like ail, ale, avail, bail, bale
53. VA6 — an area of lowland between hills or mountains; as in canyon, gorge; dale; dene; hollow sounds like alley, dally, galley, rally, sally
54. VA5 — a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid; cock; faucet; gate; spigot
55. VA4 — sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
56. VA7 — lacking in distinctive features or qualities; free from all additions or embellishment; beige; characterless; faceless sounds like manila
57. VA8 —

VE

59. VE4 — sounds like deal, eel, feel, heal, heel
60. VE5 — open to improper influence and especially bribery; bribable; corruptible; dirty; purchasable sounds like penal, renal, vinyl
61. VE7 — open to improper influence and especially bribery; bribable; corruptible; dirty; purchasable sounds like evenly, finale, finally, funnel, luckily
62. VE6 — worthy of forgiveness; condonable; excusable; forgivable; pardonable sounds like genial
63. VE8 — worthy of forgiveness; condonable; excusable; forgivable; pardonable sounds like menial

VI

65. VI4 — sounds like dial, vowel
66. VI5 — a large impressive residence; castle; château; estate; hacienda
67. VI7 — a mean, evil, or unprincipled person; baddie; beast; brute; caitiff sounds like billon
68. VI8 — that which is morally unacceptable; bad; evil; evildoing; ill sounds like colony, felony, peony, sealant
69. VI10 — as in sonnet, ode; anacreontic; clerihew; dithyramb; eclogue sounds like venal