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

Letters: i  a  b  e  l  m  p

• Total Answers: 48
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

1. AL5 — an explanation that frees one from fault or blame; as in explain, rationalize; apology; defense; excuse sounds like blubber, caliber, club, clubbed, clubby

AM

3. AM7 — having an easygoing and pleasing manner especially in social situations; affable; agreeable; genial; good-natured sounds like able, achievable, admirable, affable, agreeable

BA

5. BA4 — as in bond, recognizance; as in loop, bow; as in hod; bond; recognizance sounds like ail, ale
6. BA6 — sounds like belly, bully, burley, burly, daily

BE

8. BE5 — to give a misleading impression of; to prove to be false; to keep secret or shut off from view; misrepresent; confound sounds like bilk, bill, billed, billow, build

BI

10. BI8 — sounds like become, bloodbath, bumble, bump, comeback
11. BI5 — a book made up of the writings accepted by Christians as coming from God; as in guide, guidebook; Book; Good Book; Holy Writ sounds like babble, bauble, bubble, libel
12. BI8 — sounds like bubble, bumble, collegial, colonial, gullible
13. BI4 — biting sharpness of feeling or expression; acidity; acidness; acridity; acridness sounds like aisle, bail, bale, ball, bawl
14. 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
15. BI8 — sounds like syllable

BL

17. BL5 — a person with old-fashioned ideas; antediluvian; dodo; fogy; fossil sounds like limp
18. BL4 — as in cut, remove; bleep; clip; cut; excise sounds like clip, flip, lip, slip

EM

20. EM5 — as in mail, card; as in telegraph, airmail; airmail; card; electronic mail sounds like female, mail, male

IA

22. IA4 — sounds like bam, dam, damn, ham, jam
23. IA5 — sounds like abbey, amber, bamboo, mammary, shabby

IM

25. IM4 — sounds like mom
26. IM6 — to swallow in liquid form; to take in (something liquid) through small openings; belt (down); drink; gulp sounds like embed, emboss
27. IM6 —
28. IM6 — to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object; gore; harpoon; jab; lance
29. IM10 — not capable of being perceived by the sense of touch; not perceptible by a sense or by the mind; intangible; imperceptible; inappreciable sounds like palpable
30. IM5 — to set or keep in motion; to cause (a person) to give in to pressure; actuate; drive; move

LA

32. LA5 — sounds like abbey, lobbied, lobby, phobia, shabby
33. LA6 — sounds like babble, dabble, libel, liberal, lineal
34. LA6 — as in unstable, fluctuating; changing; fluctuating; inconstant; unstable sounds like cobble, gobble, hobble, libel, wobble

LI

36. LI6 — being in a situation where one is likely to meet with harm; being the one who must meet an obligation or suffer the consequences for failing to do so; endangered; exposed; open sounds like p**, viable
37. LI5 — the making of false statements that damage another's reputation; to make untrue and harmful statements about; aspersing; blackening; calumniation sounds like bible, label
38. LI7 —
39. LI4 — sounds like alma, arena, aroma, asthma, beam
40. LI4 — a major outgrowth from the main stem of a woody plant; bough; branch sounds like dim, gym, him, hymn, lamb
41. LI4 — as in limey; as in limeys; limey; powerboater; sailboater sounds like chime, climb, c**, dime, lamb
42. LI4 — not stiff in structure; depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; lacking bodily energy or motivation; droopy; flaccid sounds like chimp, lamp, lump, lymph, pimp

MA

44. MA4 — communications or parcels sent or carried through the postal system; to send through the postal system; a person who delivers mail; correspondence; matter sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
45. MA8 — as in transferable, transportable; to send through the postal system; shippable; transferable; transmittable sounds like salable
46. MA4 — to cause severe or permanent injury to; cripple; disable; incapacitate; lame sounds like aim, came, dame, fame, game

MI

48. MI4 — a long distance; a long distance; with great speed; afar; country mile sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
49. MI4 — a building or set of buildings for the manufacturing of goods; to reduce to fine particles; as in kick around, knock (about); factory; manufactory sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
50. MI4 — an actor in a story performed silently and entirely by body movements; a movement of the body or limbs that expresses or emphasizes an idea or feeling; to use (someone or something) as the model for one's speech, mannerisms, or behavior; mimic; mummer sounds like chime, dime, lime, mom, mum

PA

52. PA4 — a round container that is open at the top and outfitted with a handle; bucket sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
53. PA7 —
54. PA8 —

PI

56. PI4 — a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another; a considerable amount; a very large amount of money; cock; heap sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
57. PI4 — a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally; a person whose behavior is offensive to others; cap; capsule; lozenge sounds like bill, chill, dill, fill, hill
58. PI4 — a man who solicits clients for a woman who is willing to engage in sexual activities for money; to take unfair advantage of; cadet; fancy man; pander sounds like chimp, limp, pomp, pump, wimp
59. PI6 — a small, inflamed swelling of the skin; boil; fester; hickey; papule sounds like simple
60. PI4 — a long hollow cylinder for carrying a substance (as a liquid or gas); an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages; to cause to move to a central point or along a restricted pathway; channel; conduit sounds like hype, pap, peep, pop, pope

PL

62. PL7 — able to bend easily without breaking; capable of being readily changed; bendy; flexible; limber sounds like liable
63. PL4 — sounds like alley, early, flea, flee, glee