NYT 🐝 Clues—Mon. 1 May, 2023

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

Letters: p  b  e  l  o  t  y

  • Total Answers: 45
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

BE

  1. BE5 — sounds like bop

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

BL

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

  2. BL5 — sounds like loop, sloop

EL

  1. EL5 — as in escape, abscond; abscond; clear out; decamp; escape sounds like alone, lope, slope

EP

  1. EP4 — sounds like easy, pea

LO

  1. LO6 — to move with a light springing step; bounce; bound; hop; lope sounds like dollop, wallop

  2. LO4 — a circular strip; as in circle, spiral; to cause an unpleasant surprise for; band; circle sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, lap

  3. LO5 — as in dotty, touched; dotty; fey; off; potty sounds like lucy, rupee, soupy

  4. LO4 — to move with a light springing step; as in bounce, skip; bounce; bound; hop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lap, leap

PE

  1. PE6 — sounds like rebel

  2. PE6 — not having a level or smooth surface; broken; bumpy; coarse; irregular sounds like barely, belly, bubbly, deadly, deathly

  3. PE4 — to remove the natural covering of; to rid oneself of (a garment); to leave a place often for another; bark; flay sounds like appeal, deal, eel, feel, heal

  4. PE4 — an instance of looking especially briefly; to make a short sharp sound like a small bird; cast; eye; gander sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep

  5. PE6 — as in bead, pearl; a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm; bead; pearl; pelletize sounds like palate, palette, pallet, parrot, pilot

  6. PE4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; the outer covering of an animal removed for its commercial value; to proceed or move quickly; bang; bash sounds like belt, dealt, felt, knelt, melt

  7. PE6 — human beings in general; the body of the community as contrasted with the elite; a group of persons who come from the same ancestor; folks; humanity sounds like papal, purple

  8. PE5 — having active strength of body or mind; having much high-spirited energy and movement; dynamic; energetic; flush sounds like parry, poppy, preppie, preppy, puppy

  9. PE5 — not broad or open in views or opinions; so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention; as in pocket money, spending money; illiberal; insular sounds like jetty, parry, patty, pity, potty

  10. PE6 — sounds like paint, paste, pate, payout

PL

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

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

  3. PL4 — as in sinking, plummeting; to throw or set down clumsily or casually; plummeting; sinking; descent sounds like flop, glop, lop, pop, prop

  4. PL4 — a secret plan for accomplishing evil or unlawful ends; a small area of usually open land; a small piece of land that is developed or available for development; conspiracy; design sounds like allot, blot, clot, lat, lot

  5. PL4 — a clever often underhanded means to achieve an end; a time or instance of carefree fun; artifice; device; dodge sounds like alloy, cloy

PO

  1. PO4 — a person who writes poetry; as in poet, poetaster; as in poets, poetasters; bard; minstrel sounds like putt

  2. PO4 — as in center, capital; as in punt; capital; center; cynosure sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal

  3. PO4 — the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; to go around and approach (people) with a request for opinions or information; to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrument; bean; block sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal

  4. PO4 — sounds like pillow, solo

  5. PO5 — as in cancer, carcinoma; cancer; carcinoma; lymphoma; malignancy

  6. PO4 — as in join, connect; a small often deep body of water; a body of persons at work or available for work; combine; connect sounds like cool, fool, pail, pal, pale

  7. PO4 — solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal; information not generally available to the public; dirt; doo-doo; dropping sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, loop

  8. PO4 — as in bishop, archbishop; abbot; archbishop; archpriest; bishop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pap

  9. PO6 — a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; action figure; doll; dolly; puppet sounds like puppet

  10. PO5 — sounds like choppy, copy, peppy, puppy

  11. PO8 — an enlarged or bulging abdomen; bay window; beer belly; belly; corporation sounds like partially, wobbly

  12. PO5 — being or characteristic of a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior; a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body waste; as in dirty, nasty; aristocratic; elitist sounds like knotty, party, patty, petty, pity

TE

  1. TE6 — sounds like beady, beefy, beep, beeper, cheap

  2. TE8 —

  3. TE5 — sounds like guppy, puppy, touchy, tummy, yuppie

TO

  1. TO4 — sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pope

  2. TO6 — to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily; fall; slip; stumble; trip sounds like tipple

TY

  1. TY4 — a number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common; one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic; to arrange or assign according to type; breed; class sounds like hype, pipe, ripe, tap, tape

  2. TY4 —

YE

  1. YE4 — as in howl, squeal; to cry out loudly and emotionally; bark; bay; bellow sounds like help, kelp

bebop, beep, bleep, bloop, elope, epee, lollop, loop, loopy, lope, pebble, pebbly, peel, peep, pellet, pelt, people, peppy, petty, peyote, pleb, plebe, plop, plot, ploy, poet, pole, poll, polo, polyp, pool, poop, pope, poppet, poppy, potbelly, potty, teepee, teletype, tepee, tope, topple, type, typo, yelp