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

Letters: t  a  b  c  e  j  l

• Total Answers: 51
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AB

1. AB5 — to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually; to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent; to put an end to by formal action; de-escalate; decline sounds like await, bait, debate
2. AB4 — to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; brew; ferment; foment sounds like bet
3. AB7 — sounds like battle, beetle, bevel, bottle, kettle
4. AB6 — showing, expressing, or offered in a spirit of humility or unseemly submissiveness; base; humble; menial; servile sounds like object
5. AB6 — sounds like bait, blade, blame, blase, blaze

AC

7. AC6 — sounds like subtle, unsubtle
8. AC7 — sounds like agitate, annotate

BA

10. BA6 — sounds like valet
11. BA4 — as in take off, abate; abate; deduct; knock off; remove sounds like a**, ate
12. BA6 — a forceful effort to reach a goal or objective; a physical dispute between opposing individuals or groups; active fighting during the course of a war; fight; fray sounds like beetle, bottle, cattle, rattle

BE

14. BE4 — to strike repeatedly; to achieve a victory over; to be greater, better, or stronger than; bash; baste sounds like bait, bat
15. BE8 — to strike repeatedly; to achieve a victory over; to be greater, better, or stronger than; bash; baste sounds like billable, bubble, feasible, notable, peaceable
16. BE4 — sounds like bait, bat
17. BE6 — to extend outward beyond a usual point; as in hammer, sledgehammer; bag; balloon; belly sounds like battle, bottle, cheetal, fetal
18. BE6 — sounds like abate, alert, alight, allay, allot
19. BE4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time; a strip of flexible material (as leather) worn around the waist; bang; bash sounds like bolt, built, dealt
20. BE4 — sounds like bait
21. BE5 — sounds like battle, bottle, hotel, kettle

BL

23. BL4 — to utter with a sudden burst of strong feeling; as in bleat, honk; blurt (out); bolt; cry (out) sounds like bat, brat, flat, slat
24. BL5 — an expression of dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment; to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to utter feeble plaintive cries; beef; bitch sounds like beat, beet

CA

26. CA7 — a vocal sound made to express scorn or disapproval; as in deride, jeer; bird; boo; Bronx cheer
27. CA6 — as in trash, rabble; proletariat; rabble; rabblement; ragtag and bobtail sounds like battle, kettle, rattle

CL

29. CL5 — sounds like elite, fleet, klieg, pleat, sleet

EA

31. EA7 — suitable for use as food; comestible; eating; edible; esculent sounds like stubble

EC

33. EC5 — as in extravaganza, mummery; extravaganza; mummery; pageant; parade sounds like cat, clad, clam, clan, clang

EJ

35. EJ5 — to drive or force out; to violently throw out or off (something from within); banish; boot (out); bounce sounds like effect, elect, erect, inject, r*
36. EJ6 —
37. EJ9 — to drive or force out; to violently throw out or off (something from within); banish; boot (out); bounce sounds like delectable, detectable

EL

39. EL5 — to fill with great joy; elevate; enrapture; exhilarate; intoxicate sounds like innate, late, plate, r*, slate
40. EL5 — to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities; singled out from a number or group as more to one's liking; individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class; cherry-pick; choose sounds like effect, eject, erect
41. EL9 — sounds like collectible
42. EL7 — sounds like affect, aplenty, collect, collector, plenty

JE

44. JE4 — sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat

LA

46. LA7 — sounds like backdate, dictate, locate
47. LA7 — sounds like act, actor, backed, fact, factor
48. 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**
49. LA5 — sounds like bat, cat, chat, fat, flat

TA

51. TA5 —
52. TA5 — as in figure, calculate; as in reserve, hold off; a leg-mounted piece of furniture with a broad flat top designed for the serving of food; calculate; cipher sounds like able, cable, fable, gable, hable
53. TA6 — a number of sheets of writing paper glued together at one edge; a small mass containing medicine to be taken orally; notepad; pad; cap sounds like abbot, ballot, giblet, habit, hamlet
54. TA5 — sounds like facet
55. TA4 — the ability to deal with others in touchy situations without offending them; diplomacy; tactfulness sounds like act, backed, fact, packed, pact
56. TA4 — sounds like torque
57. 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
58. TA4 — extending to a great distance upward; requiring considerable physical or mental effort; as in yacht, sailboat; altitudinous; high sounds like all, ball, bawl, call, fall
59. 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
60. TA10 — a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing; betrayer; canary; deep throat; fink sounds like telltale

TE

62. TE4 — sounds like deal, eel, feel, heal, heel
63. TE4 — sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
64. 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
65. 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