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

Letters: u  a  b  d  i  l  y

• Total Answers: 21
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AU

1. AU7 — with one's normal voice speaking the words; heard or able to be heard; aloud; out; out loud sounds like doubly

BA

3. BA4 — sounds like awed, bead, bed

BU

5. BU5 —
6. BU6 — joyously unrestrained; bouncy; buoyant; crank; effervescent sounds like doubly
7. BU5 — a person who has a strong liking for and trust in another; closely acquainted; having or showing kindly feeling and sincere interest; alter ego; amigo sounds like bawdy, beady, birdie, bloody, body
8. BU5 — to form by putting together parts or materials; the type of body that a person has; to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number; assemble; confect sounds like bald, beard, belie, below, bid
9. BU4 — a stupid person; a glass bulb or tube that produces light when it is supplied with electricity; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead sounds like bely
10. BU4 — an order publicly issued by an authority; a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level; boastful speech or writing; decree; diktat sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, bell
11. BU5 — of the very best kind; a person who teases, threatens, or hurts smaller, weaker, or more vulnerable persons; a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang; A-OK; A1 sounds like belly, bookie, fully, pulley, woolly

DA

13. DA4 — to make dirty; to rub an oily or sticky substance over; as in drawing, finger painting; befoul; begrime sounds like doff, dog, door, dub

DU

15. DU4 — consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined; as in interstate, motorway; as in interstates, motorways; binary; bipartite sounds like dial, dowel, jewel
16. DU6 — consisting of two members or parts that are usually joined; binary; bipartite; double; double-barreled
17. DU4 — lacking sharpness of edge or point; causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest; covered over by clouds; blunt; blunted sounds like addle, cul, cull, dale, deal
18. DU5 — as in dimly; as in sluggishly, inanimately; lacking sharpness of edge or point; dimly; darkly sounds like daily, dally, doubly, gulley, gully
19. DU4 — in a manner suitable for the occasion or purpose; appositely; appropriately; congruously; correctly sounds like coolly, daily, dally, newly

LA

21. LA4 — public acknowledgment or admiration for an achievement; to declare enthusiastic approval of; to proclaim the glory of; acclaim; accolade sounds like awed, flawed, lead, led, lewd
22. LA8 — deserving of high regard or great approval; admirable; applaudable; commendable; creditable sounds like audibly, doubly, horribly, plausibly

LU

24. LU4 — as in barbecue, cookout; barbecue; clambake; cookout; fry sounds like lewd, loom, loon, loop, loose
25. LU4 — a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
26. LU7 — to free from distress or disturbance; as in serenade, chorus; becalm; calm; compose sounds like alibi, nullify
27. LU4 — something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled