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

Letters: y  a  b  c  l  n  o

• Total Answers: 38
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AB

1. AB6 — the office, dignity, jurisdiction, or tenure of an abbot sounds like—antsy, assay, baggy, bask, bass
2. AB4 — in a skillful or expert manner synonyms—adeptly, adroitly, artfully, cap**, competently sounds like—ail, ale, alley, awfully, baby

AL

3. AL5 — to make more bearable or less severe synonyms—alleviate, assuage, ease, help, mitigate sounds like—away, clay, fillet, lay, play
4. AL5 — a distinct entity formed by the combining of two or more different things synonyms—admixture, amalgam, amalgamation, blend, cocktail sounds like—cloy, ploy
5. AL4 — someone associated with another to give assistance or moral support synonyms—abettor, backer, bedfellow, confederate, fellow traveler sounds like—fly, lie, lye, ply, sleigh

AN

6. AN6 — of, relating to, situated near, or involving the anus; of, relating to, characterized by, or being the stage of psychosexual development which follows the oral stage and during which the child is concerned especially with his or her feces; of, relating to, characterized by, or being personality traits (such as parsimony, meticulousness, and ill humor) considered typical of fixation at the anal stage of development : anal-retentive —often used in nontechnical contexts to describe someone as extremely or excessively neat, careful, or precise
7. AN5 — to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts synonyms—aggravate, bother, bug, burn (up), chafe

BA

8. BA4 — a recently born person; a member of the human race; a successful result brought about by hard work synonyms—babe, bambino, child, infant, neonate sounds like—bobby, booby, maybe
9. BA7 — a flat roofless structure attached to a building synonyms—deck, sundeck, terrace sounds like—alchemy, falcon, falconer, falconry
10. BA7 — a male attendant who retrieves balls for players or officials (as in a tennis match or a baseball or basketball game) sounds like—bulb, busboy
11. BA7 — lacking in qualities that make for spirit and character; used or heard so often as to be dull synonyms—flat, insipid, milk-and-water, namby-pamby, watery sounds like—bluntly, bodily, bubble, bubbly, buckle
12. BA6 — a large fig tree (Ficus benghalensis) native to India and Pakistan that starts as an epiphyte and has spreading branches which send out aerial roots that grow down to the ground and form secondary trunks around the host tree sounds like—canyon

BL

13. BL6 — fond of talking or conversation synonyms—chatty, conversational, gabby, garrulous, loquacious
14. BL6 — sounds like—bobby, lobby

BO

15. BO5 — of the very best kind; very pleasing to look at synonyms—A-OK, A1, awesome, bang-up, banner sounds like—balmy, bunny
16. BO4 — having a noticeably small amount of body fat; producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation synonyms—fatless, lean, lithe, skinny, slender sounds like—bunny, phoney, phony, pony, tony
17. BO5 — a person who lacks good sense or judgment synonyms—berk, charlie, cuckoo, ding-a-ling, ding-dong sounds like—baby, buoy, ruby

CA

18. CA5 — cabdriver sounds like—abbey, crabby, shabby, tabby
19. CA5 — having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment; enjoying physical comfort synonyms—astute, clear-eyed, clear-sighted, hard-boiled, hardheaded sounds like—cranny, fanny
20. CA6 — a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passage synonyms—col, couloir, defile, flume, gap

CL

21. CL4 — the set of qualities that makes a person, a group of people, or a thing different from others synonyms—character, colors, complexion, constitution, genius sounds like—allay, lay, play, slay
22. CL4 — as in saturate, surfeit synonyms—saturate, surfeit, alleviate, lighten, relieve sounds like—alloy, coy, ploy

CO

23. CO6 — a settlement in a new country or region; a group of people with a common interest living in one place synonyms—plantation, community sounds like—botany, caution, clubby
24. CO6 — as in casually, nonchalantly synonyms—casually, nonchalantly, candidly, frankly, matter-of-factly sounds like—cruelly, curly, duly, newly
25. CO5 — affecting shyness or modesty in order to attract masculine interest; not comfortable around people synonyms—coquettish, demure, kittenish, backward, bashful sounds like—curly, oily

CY

26. CY4 — a greenish-blue color —used in photography and color printing of one of the primary colors sounds like—ion, lion, science, sign, sine

LA

27. LA4 — as in frilly, flowery synonyms—flowery, frilly, adorned, arrayed, beautified sounds like—lucy, racy

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 synonyms—foyer, hall, entranceway, entry, entryway sounds like—b*, bobby, hobby
29. LO8 — a pine (Pinus taeda) of the southeastern U.S. with flaky bark, long needles in groups of three, and cones having spine-tipped scales; also : its coarse-grained wood sounds like—blobby, largely, liberally, nobly, sobbingly
30. LO7 — with respect to a particular place or situation; nearby; in the region of origin sounds like—luckily, vocally
31. LO5 — one having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind synonyms—bug, crackbrain, crazy, fool, fruitcake sounds like—lucy, lunar
32. LO5 — firm in one's allegiance to someone or something synonyms—constant, dedicated, devoted, devout, down-the-line sounds like—lull, royal
33. LO7 — firm in one's allegiance to someone or something synonyms—constant, dedicated, devoted, devout, down-the-line

NA

34. NA5 — a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children synonyms—babysitter, dry nurse, nurse, nursemaid, nurser sounds like—canny, fanny

NO

35. NO5 — in a manner befitting a person of the highest character and ideals synonyms—gallantly, grandly, greatheartedly, greatly, heroically sounds like—awfully, barley, bobby, bubbly, calmly

NY

36. NY5 — any of numerous strong tough elastic synthetic polyamide materials that are fashioned into fibers, filaments, bristles, or sheets and used especially in textiles and plastics; stockings made of * sounds like—pylon

ON

37. ON5 — sounds like—inlay
38. ON4 — for nothing other than; not long ago; nothing more than synonyms—alone, exclusively, just, purely, simply sounds like—lonely