NYT 🐝 Clues—Fri. 17 February, 2023

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

Letters: b  a  e  i  l  n  p

  • Total Answers: 55
  • Pangrams: 2
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AB

  1. AB4 — having the required skills for an acceptable level of performance; enjoying health and vigor; as in lubber, able seaman; capable; competent sounds like c, f, g, h, herbal

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

AP

  1. AP10 — to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner; beg; beseech; besiege; conjure sounds like achievable, available, peaceable

BA

  1. BA4 — sounds like bobby

  2. BA6 — unintelligible or meaningless talk; to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly; to engage in casual or rambling conversation; abracadabra; blabber sounds like bible, bubble, dabble, rabble

  3. BA4 — a person who is just starting out in a field of activity; a recently born person; a lovely woman; abecedarian; apprentice

  4. BA5 — a place of uproar or confusion; loud, confused, and usually inharmonious sound; bedlam; circus; madhouse sounds like bible, bubble, dabble, rabble

  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

  7. BA4 — a large amount of a material (such as hay or wool) that is pressed together tightly and often tied or wrapped; bundle; pack; package; packet sounds like ail, ale

  8. BA6 — sounds like alley

  9. BA4 — a more or less round body or mass; a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm; a social gathering for dancing; globe; orb sounds like all, bell, bile, bill, boar

  10. BA5 — lacking in qualities that make for spirit and character; used or heard so often as to be dull; flat; insipid; milk-and-water sounds like bizarre, bubble, buckle, bun, bunch

  11. BA6 — as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza

  12. BA4 — a source of harm or misfortune; a substance that by chemical action can kill or injure a living thing; affliction; curse; nemesis sounds like arraign

BE

  1. BE4 — the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; active strength of body or mind; language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; block; dome sounds like ban, bane

  2. BE8 — sounds like baseball, pinball

  3. BE6 — sounds like bony, bunny, genie

  4. BE7 — a quickly followed straight or direct course; as in put, take off; as in arrow; dash; scramble sounds like byline, feline

  5. BE4 — to have life; to occupy a place or location; to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes; breathed; existed sounds like ban, bane, bib, bid, big

  6. BE4 — as in buzz; buzz; call; dial; phone

  7. 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

  8. BE4 — as in howl, wail; as in jeans, corduroys; a person in overall command of a ship; caterwaul; howl sounds like bail, bale, ball, bare, bawl

  9. BE5 — as in peach, charmer; a period of high artistic or cultural development; a period of high artistic or cultural development; charmer; peach sounds like bail, bale, ball, bare, bawl

BI

  1. 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

  2. BI7 — sounds like bunny

  3. BI8 — sounds like burial, perennial, triennial

  4. BI8 — sounds like bubble, bumble, collegial, colonial, gullible

  5. BI4 — biting sharpness of feeling or expression; acidity; acidness; acridity; acridness sounds like aisle, bail, bale, ball, bawl

  6. 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

  7. BI8 — sounds like syllable

  8. BI7 — as in tilt-rotor, triplane; lightplane; tilt-rotor; towplane; trimotor sounds like airplane, byline, pipeline, plain, plane

BL

  1. BL4 — to engage in casual or rambling conversation; to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature; as in chatter, babble; babble; cackle sounds like lab, slab

  2. BL5 — as in remove, cut; blip; clip; cut; excise sounds like beep, leap, sleep

  3. BL4 — as in crepe, blintze; blintze; crepe; oatcake; wheat cake sounds like been, bin

  4. BL5 — as in crepes, blintzes; blintzes; crepes; oatcakes; wheat cakes sounds like baloney, beady, bean, beefy, bikini

  5. BL4 — as in cut, remove; bleep; clip; cut; excise sounds like clip, flip, lip, slip

EN

  1. EN6 — to make able or possible; to give official or legal power to; allow; empower; let sounds like unable

IN

  1. IN11 —

LA

  1. LA5 — a slip (as of paper or cloth) that is attached to something to identify or describe it; to attach an identifying slip to; to give a name to; marker; tag sounds like able, cable, fable, gable, hable

  2. LA5 — sounds like abbey, lobbied, lobby, phobia, shabby

  3. LA6 — sounds like babble, dabble, libel, liberal, lineal

  4. LA6 — as in unstable, fluctuating; changing; fluctuating; inconstant; unstable sounds like cobble, gobble, hobble, libel, wobble

LI

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. LI7 —

NI

  1. NI6 — a small piece or quantity of food; to eat reluctantly and in small bites; to crush or grind with the teeth; bite; morsel sounds like noble

PA

  1. PA8 — able to be perceived by a sense or by the mind; capable of being perceived by the sense of touch; not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation; appreciable; apprehensible sounds like culpable, fallible, malleable, pliable, valuable

PE

  1. PE6 — sounds like rebel

  2. PE8 — to remove the natural covering of; to rid oneself of (a garment); bark; flay; hull

PI

  1. PI7 —

PL

  1. PL4 — as in commoner, plebeian; commoner; plebeian; prole; proletarian

  2. PL5 — as in commoner, plebeian; commoner; plebeian; prole; proletarian

  3. PL8 — belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank; as in commoner, prole; baseborn; common; humble sounds like eleven, leaden, leaven, lemon, lessen

  4. PL7 — able to bend easily without breaking; capable of being readily changed; bendy; flexible; limber sounds like liable

able, alibi, appealable, baba, babble, babe, babel, bail, bailee, bale, baleen, ball, banal, banana, bane, bean, beanball, beanie, beeline, been, beep, belie, bell, belle, bible, biennia, biennial, bilabial, bile, bill, billable, biplane, blab, bleep, blin, blini, blip, enable, inalienable, label, labia, labial, labile, liable, libel, libelee, nibble, palpable, pebble, peelable, pinball, pleb, plebe, plebeian, pliable