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

Letters: l  b  g  i  n  r  u

• Total Answers: 49
• Pangrams: 4
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

BI

1. 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
2. BI7 — as in advertising, message; as in nestling, cuddling; as in calling, declaring; advertising; blurb sounds like belong, building, chilling, killing, schilling

BL

4. BL4 — as in crepe, blintze; blintze; crepe; oatcake; wheat cake sounds like been, bin
5. BL5 — decorative objects (such as earrings, rings, necklaces, and bracelets) worn on the body; bijouterie; ice; jewelry; accessory sounds like billing, budding, bugging, bulging, buzzing
6. BL5 — as in crepes, blintzes; blintzes; crepes; oatcakes; wheat cakes sounds like baloney, beady, bean, beefy, bikini
7. BL4 — to make (something) unclear to the understanding; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; as in spot, stain; becloud; befog sounds like boiler, bower, burr
8. BL5 — a short description that praises something (such as a book) so that people will want to buy it; as in feature, pitch; advertising; billing; come-on
9. BL8 — as in confusion; to make (something) unclear to the understanding; to make dark, dim, or indistinct; confusion; beclouding

BU

11. BU8 — to flow in a broken irregular stream; to flow in a broken irregular stream; dribbling; guggling; gurgling
12. BU7 —
13. BU4 — a stupid person; a glass bulb or tube that produces light when it is supplied with electricity; airhead; birdbrain; blockhead sounds like bely
14. BU7 — as in dilated, protuberant; as in bursting, crammed; to extend outward beyond a usual point; dilated; protuberant sounds like balding, billing, bluing, bridging
15. BU6 — sounds like vulgar
16. 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
17. BU8 — sounds like balding, bearing, billing, bluing, booking
18. BU8 — showing or marked by a lack of skill and tact (as in dealing with a situation); to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way; to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way; awkward; botched sounds like dangling
19. BU8 — as in prattling, blabbering; blabbering; blabbing; blithering; bumbling sounds like baffling, bottling, tabling
20. BU8 — to enter a house or building by force usually with illegal intent; to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully; to enter a house or building by force usually with illegal intent; breaking in; burglarizing sounds like baffling, beguiling, bottling
21. BU4 — sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, bell

GI

23. GI8 — as in smiling, amused; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; to show mirth with an explosive vocal sound; amused; beaming sounds like beguiling, guzzling, middling, piddling, sizzling
24. GI4 — a female romantic companion; a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage; a natural body of running water smaller than a river; gal; girl sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, gal
25. GI7 — sounds like billing, chilling, galling, killing, schilling
26. GI4 — a young unmarried woman; a female person who has not yet reached adulthood; a female romantic companion; damsel; demoiselle sounds like burl, curl, earl, gal, gale

GL

28. GL4 — said or done in a way that lacks thought or is not sincere; facile; superficial; empty; hollow
29. GL4 — sounds like lug, plug, slug
30. GL8 — sounds like bugging, flagging, galloping, grudging, lagging
31. GL6 — as in cementing; as in binding, fastening; cementing; adhesiveness; attachment sounds like bluing

GR

33. GR5 — to put a series of questions to; to put a question or questions to; a public establishment where meals are served to paying customers for consumption on the premises; catechize; examine sounds like drill, frill, rill
34. GR8 — as in challenge, cross-examination; to put a series of questions to; to put a question or questions to; challenge; cross-examination sounds like drilling, thrilling

GU

36. GU4 — one who is easily deceived or cheated; to cause to believe what is untrue; chump; dupe; mug sounds like cul, cull, dull, eagle, gal
37. GU7 — to cause to believe what is untrue; to cause to believe what is untrue; bamboozling; beguiling; bluffing sounds like galling
38. GU8 — to flow in a broken irregular stream; to flow in a broken irregular stream; bubbling; dribbling; guggling

LI

40. LI8 — sounds like bikini, singly
41. LI6 — as in quilting, interlining; as in lining up, aligning; as in surrounding, embracing; interlining; quilting sounds like dining, fining, shining

LU

43. LU6 — sounds like losing, tubing
44. LU7 — to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to support and take from one place to another; to cause to follow by applying steady force on; dragging; drawing sounds like bugging, lagging, logging, loving, mugging
45. LU6 — sounds like lodging, losing
46. LU4 — a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
47. LU7 — tending to calm the emotions and relieve stress; to free from distress or disturbance; to free from distress or disturbance; calming; comforting sounds like loving
48. LU4 — something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
49. LU4 — sounds like c, dung, f, hung, long
50. LU7 — as in plunging, diving; diving; plunging; settling; sinking sounds like bulging, fudging, lodging, longing, loving
51. LU6 — having an often mysterious or magical power to attract; to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; alluring; appealing sounds like bring, earring, ring, wring

NI

53. NI8 — to eat reluctantly and in small bites; to crush or grind with the teeth; to consume or wear away gradually; pecking; picking sounds like middling, piddling, sibling, sizzling, tabling
54. NI8 — so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention; to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant; to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant; chicken; de minimis sounds like beguiling, middling, piddling, sizzling

NU

56. NU4 — having no legal or binding force; having no usefulness; to put an end to by formal action; bad; inoperative sounds like annul, cul, cull, dull, gull

RI

58. RI6 — causing annoyance; to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts; to make angry; abrasive; aggravating sounds like filing, piling, railing, roiling, rolling
59. RI4 — a natural body of running water smaller than a river; beck; bourn; brook; brooklet sounds like bill, chill, dill, d**, fill

RU

61. RU6 — a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard; an order publicly issued by an authority; held by or applicable to a majority of the people; doom; finding sounds like railing, roiling, rolling, roofing