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

Letters: y  a  b  e  l  o  v

• Total Answers: 31
• Pangrams: 2
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AB

1. AB5 — a residence for men under religious vows; cloister; friary; hermitage; monastery sounds like alley, assay, bee, shabby, tabby
2. AB4 — in a skillful or expert manner; having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance; adeptly; adroitly; artfully sounds like ail, ale, alley, awfully, baby

AL

4. AL5 — to make more bearable or less severe; alleviate; assuage; ease; help sounds like away, clay, fillet, lay, play
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. AL5 — a distinct entity formed by the combining of two or more different things; admixture; amalgam; amalgamation; blend sounds like cloy, ploy
7. 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

BA

9. BA4 — a recently born person; a member of the human race; a successful result brought about by hard work; babe; bambino sounds like bobby, booby, maybe
10. BA7 — sounds like bulb, busboy

BE

12. BE5 — to attach (a rope) to something so that it is secure; batten; button; do up; affix sounds like allay, ballet, bulb, bulge, bulk
13. BE7 — sounds like bulb, busboy, elbow
14. BE5 — a need or desire for food; an enlarged or bulging abdomen; the part of the body between the chest and the pelvis; appetite; emptiness sounds like barely, bully, burley, burly
15. BE4 — a large group of people or things—usually singular; army; cram; crowd; crush sounds like bury, heavy, levee, levy

BL

17. BL6 — fond of talking or conversation; chatty; conversational; gabby; garrulous
18. BL6 — sounds like bobby, lobby

BO

20. BO5 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment; to place hidden explosive devices in or under; a usually concealed explosive device designed to go off when disturbed; berk; charlie sounds like baby, buoy, ruby

EE

22. EE4 — sounds like alley, early, easy, flea, flee

EY

24. EY7 — in direct confrontation or competition; face-to-face; head-on; head-to-head; mano a mano sounds like ball, bawl

LE

26. LE4 — a charge usually of money collected by the government from people or businesses for public use; to pick especially for required military service; to establish or apply as a charge or penalty; assessment; duty sounds like bevy, heavy

LO

28. LO5 — a centrally located room in a building that serves as a gathering or waiting area or as a passageway into the interior; the entrance room of a building; foyer; hall; entranceway sounds like b*, bobby, hobby
29. LO8 — sounds like blobby, largely, liberally, nobly, sobbingly
30. LO7 — having qualities that tend to make one loved; adorable; darling; dear; disarming sounds like luckily, slovenly
31. LO8 — sounds like avowedly, enviously, favorably, luckily, obviously
32. LO6 — of the very best kind; very pleasing to look at; as in beauty, goddess; A-OK; A1 sounds like lively
33. LO5 — appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way; the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion); chocolate-box; cloying; corny sounds like levee, levy, lucky
34. LO5 — firm in one's allegiance to someone or something; constant; dedicated; devoted; devout sounds like lull, royal
35. LO7 — firm in one's allegiance to someone or something; constant; dedicated; devoted; devout

OB

37. OB4 — to act according to the commands of; adhere (to); comply (with); conform (to); follow sounds like bay, okay

VA

39. VA6 — an area of lowland between hills or mountains; as in canyon, gorge; dale; dene; hollow sounds like alley, dally, galley, rally, sally

VO

41. VO6 — a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once; barrage; blitz; blitzkrieg; bombardment sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, valley
42. VO10 — sounds like hardball, oddball

YE

44. YE4 — to cry out loudly and emotionally; to speak so as to be heard at a distance; a loud vocal expression of strong emotion; howl; scream sounds like bell, cell, dell, fell, gel