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

Letters: l  e  n  o  u  v  y

• Total Answers: 36
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

EE

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

EL

3. EL6 — sounds like leaven

EV

5. EV6 — as in uniformly; being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; having a surface without bends, breaks, or irregularities; uniformly; equally sounds like avidly, easily, heavenly, openly, un**
6. EV6 — to gradually become clearer or more detailed; to throw or give off; develop; elaborate; unfold sounds like involve

LE

8. LE5 — a bank of earth constructed to control water; a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers; dam; dike; embankment sounds like bevy, heavy
9. LE5 — the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement; to make equal in amount, degree, or status; to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; degree; echelon sounds like bevel, devil, revel
10. LE7 — having a surface without bends, breaks, or irregularities; free from emotional or mental agitation; even; flat; flush sounds like heavily
11. 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

13. LO4 — to be limp from lack of water or vigor; to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; droop; flag sounds like doll, lat, lull, pall
14. LO4 — being the one or ones of a class with no other members; not being in the company of others; a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs; alone; one sounds like a, blown, bone, c, c**s
15. LO6 — not being in the company of others; sad from lack of companionship or separation from others; causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer; alone; lone sounds like only
16. LO4 — one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; a stupid person; bug; crackbrain; crazy sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane
17. LO5 — one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment; having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind; bug; crackbrain sounds like lucy, lunar
18. LO4 — to hold dear; to feel passion, devotion, or tenderness for; to take pleasure in; appreciate; cherish sounds like dove, g**, leave, live, luck
19. LO6 — of the very best kind; very pleasing to look at; as in beauty, goddess; A-OK; A1 sounds like lively
20. 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

LU

22. LU4 — a momentary halt in an activity; to free from distress or disturbance; break; breath; breather sounds like cul, cull, dull, gull, hull
23. LU4 — something very good of its kind; beaut; beauty; bee's knees; cat's meow sounds like blew, blue, clue, cool, cooled
24. LU4 — sounds like boon, dune, goon, lain, lane

NO

26. NO4 — the season celebrating Christmas; as in anthem, hymn; Christmastide; Christmastime; yuletide sounds like knoll, null
27. NO8 — as in fashionable, stylish; fashionable; happening; in; modish sounds like knell, naval, navel, nutshell
28. NO5 — as in story, tale; as in pulp, novelette; not known or experienced before; anecdote; narrative sounds like naval, navel
29. NO7 —

NU

31. 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

NY

33. NY5 — sounds like pylon

OL

35. OL4 — sounds like polio

ON

37. ON4 — for nothing other than; not long ago; nothing more than; alone; exclusively sounds like lonely

OV

39. OV5 — sounds like mule, view, viewer

UN

41. UN8 — as in unequally, differently; not having a level or smooth surface; not staying constant; diversely; unequally sounds like evenly
42. UN7 — sounds like upheaval
43. UN8 — not giving pleasure to the mind or senses; unpleasant to look at; bad; bitter; disagreeable sounds like lovely

VE

45. VE6 — sounds like ennui, fennel, kennel

VO

47. VO4 — sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
48. VO6 — a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once; barrage; blitz; blitzkrieg; bombardment sounds like collie, folly, golly, jolly, valley

YE

50. 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

YU

52. YU4 — as in nativity, Xmas; Christmas; nativity; Xmas; Christmastide sounds like mule