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

Letters: b  a  d  h  i  l  n

• Total Answers: 26
• 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 — lacking a usual or natural covering; free from all additions or embellishment; not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation; bare; denuded sounds like billed, board, boiled, bold, bored
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. BA6 — a short musical composition for the human voice often with instrumental accompaniment; ditty; jingle; lay; lyric sounds like blood, pallid, salad, valid
8. 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
9. BA6 — as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza
10. BA4 — a circular strip; something that physically prevents free movement; a line or long narrow section differing in color from the background; circle; eye sounds like and, bend, bind, bland, bond
11. BA7 — a scarf worn on the head; babushka; do-rag; handkerchief; kerchief
12. BA8 — a scarf worn on the head; babushka; do-rag; handkerchief; kerchief

BI

14. BI8 — sounds like bubble, bumble, collegial, colonial, gullible
15. 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
16. BI4 — to confine or restrain with or as if with chains; to cover with a bandage; to gather into a tight mass by means of a line or cord; chain; enchain sounds like band, bend, blind, bond, bound
17. BI5 — sounds like bandy

BL

19. 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
20. BL4 — language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; the state of being bored; as in soggy, barren; applesauce; balderdash
21. BL5 — not harsh or stern especially in nature or effect; balmy; benign; delicate; gentle sounds like band, brand, gland, land
22. BL4 — as in crepe, blintze; blintze; crepe; oatcake; wheat cake sounds like been, bin
23. BL5 — lacking the power of sight; being under the influence of alcohol; to overpower with light; eyeless; sightless sounds like aligned, bind, lined
24. BL5 — as in crepes, blintzes; blintzes; crepes; oatcakes; wheat cakes sounds like baloney, beady, bean, beefy, bikini

HA

26. HA8 —
27. HA8 — as in handout, dodger; dodger; flysheet; handout; throwaway sounds like landfill

LA

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

LI

32. LI9 — sounds like befuddle, duodenal, original, rebuttal, vaginal