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

Letters: e  a  i  k  l  t  v

• Total Answers: 55
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

1. AL5 — in like manner; having qualities in common; something or someone that strongly resembles another; also; correspondingly sounds like like, unlike
2. AL5 — having or showing life; marked by much life, movement, or activity; being in effective operation; animate; breathing sounds like live
3. AL6 — sounds like addle, agile, annul, apple, lull
4. AL9 — to make more bearable or less severe; allay; assuage; ease; help sounds like deviate

AV

6. AV6 — to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings; fly; glide; plane; soar

EA

8. EA4 — sounds like eel, eke, h, l, thieve

EL

10. EL5 — to fill with great joy; elevate; enrapture; exhilarate; intoxicate sounds like innate, late, plate, r*, slate
11. EL7 — to fill with great joy; to move from a lower to a higher place or position; to move higher in rank or position; elate; enrapture
12. EL5 — as in exclusive; individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class; the highest class in a society; exclusive; better sounds like cleat, delete, fleet, pleat, sleet

EV

14. EV4 — that which is morally unacceptable; causing or capable of causing harm; not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable; bad; evildoing sounds like eagle, easel, oval, we**

KA

16. KA4 — something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment; bread; bucks; cabbage; cash sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, cage

KE

18. KE4 — a large craft for travel by water; as in drop, collapse; to lose consciousness; boat; ship sounds like call, coal, coil, cool, cul
19. KE6 — a steep-sided hollow without surface drainage especially in a deposit of glacial drift; a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape; basin; floodplain; pothole sounds like cattle, metal, mettle, nettle, petal

KI

21. KI4 — a person who habitually preys upon others; as in dance, sport; to move forward along a course; bloodsucker; buzzard sounds like bite, byte, cat, caught, cite

KV

23. KV5 — to feel or express joy or triumph; crow; delight; exuberate; exult sounds like quell

LA

25. LA4 — a large area of water that is surrounded by land; lagoon; loch; lough; pond sounds like ache, bake, cake, fake, f**
26. LA4 — not arriving, occurring, or settled at the due, usual, or proper time; having been such at some previous time; no longer living; behind; behindhand sounds like ate, bait, date, eight, e**
27. LA5 —
28. LA5 — sounds like bat, cat, chat, fat, flat
29. LA4 — to flow along or against; bathe; lap; lip; splash sounds like cave, gave

LE

31. LE4 — as in blunder; as in seep, trickle; as in warn, expose; blunder; blat sounds like beak, b**, cheek, chic, clique
32. LE5 — to cause to remain behind; to give by means of a will; to give up (a job or office); abandon; desert sounds like eave, eve, heave
33. LE4 — sounds like beak, bleak, cheek, chic, clique
34. 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
35. 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
36. LE8 — sounds like devastate, hesitate, meditate

LI

38. LI4 — to wish to have; to show partiality toward; to take pleasure in; care (for); want sounds like a**, bike, dike, dyke, hike
39. LI4 — as in light; light; natural; plain; simple sounds like alight, bite, blight, byte, cite
40. LI6 — having relatively little height; lacking importance; not broad or open in views or opinions; low; low-lying sounds like whittle
41. LI4 — to have a home; to have life; being in effective operation; abide; dwell sounds like a**, arrive, chive, dive, five

TA

43. TA4 — to reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms; to agree to receive whether willingly or reluctantly; to become affected with (a disease or disorder); clasp; grasp sounds like ache, bake, cake, fake, lake
44. TA4 — a rumor or report of a personal or sensational nature; a brief account of something interesting that happened especially to one personally; a statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive; canard; story sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
45. TA9 — fond of talking or conversation; blabby; chatty; conversational; gabby sounds like active, additive, causative, cutting, decorative
46. TA6 — as in silent; silent; animated cartoon; cartoon; docudrama sounds like gawky, turkey
47. TA6 — information or opinion that is widely disseminated without any authority or confirmation of accuracy; to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature; as in run on, blabber; buzz; dish sounds like battle, cattle, rattle, title, total
48. TA10 — a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; betrayer; canary; deep throat; fink sounds like telltale

TE

50. TE4 — sounds like beak, cheek, chic, eke, geek
51. TE9 — as in kettle; kettle; bottle; canteen; cup sounds like kettle, resettle
52. TE4 — sounds like deal, eel, feel, heal, heel
53. TE4 — sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
54. TE4 — to give an oral or written account of in some detail; to express (a thought or emotion) in words; to find the sum of (a collection of things) by noting each one as it is being added; chart; chronicle sounds like bell, cell, dell, fell, gel
55. TE8 — indicating something; a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others; a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; denotative; denoting sounds like entail

TI

57. TI4 — as in drain, hydrant; drain; drainpipe; funnel; hydrant sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
58. TI9 — to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings; charge; electrify; excite; exhilarate sounds like distillate, mitigate
59. TI8 — sounds like litigate
60. TI5 — a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known; a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize; the position occupied by the one who comes in first in a competition; appellation; appellative sounds like litle, total, turtle, vital
61. TI6 — a very small piece; the smallest amount or part imaginable; as in run on, blabber; atom; bit sounds like little, total, turtle, whittle

VA

63. VA4 — an area of lowland between hills or mountains; dale; dene; hollow; valley sounds like ail, ale, avail, bail, bale
64. VA5 — as in butler, footman; butler; footman; groom; houseboy sounds like ballet
65. VA5 — a fixture for controlling the flow of a liquid; cock; faucet; gate; spigot

VE

67. VE4 — sounds like deal, eel, feel, heal, heel
68. VE4 — something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth; to keep secret or shut off from view; to surround or cover closely; blanket; cloak sounds like ail, ale, avail, bail, bale
69. VE6 —

VI

71. VI4 — not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable; not following or in accordance with standards of honor and decency; unpleasant to look at; bad; dark sounds like aisle, bile, file, guile, isle
72. VI7 — to affect slightly with something morally bad or undesirable; to reduce the soundness, effectiveness, or perfection of; to lower in character, dignity, or quality; blemish; darken sounds like initiate, officiate