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

Letters: y  a  e  h  n  p  t

• Total Answers: 27
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AP

1. AP6 — a lack of emotion or emotional expressiveness; lack of interest or concern; affectlessness; emotionlessness; impassiveness

EY

3. EY8 — sounds like eighth, eighty, heath, icy, idea

HA

5. HA5 — coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly; experiencing pleasure, satisfaction, or delight; feeling that one's needs or desires have been met; fluky; fortuitous sounds like hippie

HY

7. HY5 — sounds like arena, china, highness, hind, marina
8. HY4 — of the very best kind; a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally; a slender hollow instrument by which material is put into or taken from the body through the skin; A-OK; A1 sounds like heap, height, hide, high, higher
9. HY6 — sounds like heighten, siphon
10. HY9 — sounds like hibernate, titanate

NA

12. NA5 — a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children; babysitter; dry nurse; nurse; nursemaid sounds like canny, fanny
13. NA5 — being strikingly neat and trim in style or appearance; dapper; sharp; smart; snappy sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, knotty, nutty

NE

15. NE5 — a fabric made of strands loosely twisted, knotted, or woven together at regular intervals; a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise; something that catches and holds; mesh; netting sounds like jetty, knotty, natty, naughty, nutty

PA

17. PA5 — sounds like ante, pointy, shanty
18. PA6 — sounds like pecan, pup, puppet, puppy, upon
19. PA5 — sounds like happy, peppy, poppy, puppy
20. PA5 — a small usually rounded mass of minced food that has been fried; cake; croquette; cutlet; fritter sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty
21. PA5 —

PE

23. PE5 — sounds like meaty, patty, pity, potty, putty
24. PE5 — a mean grasping person who is usually stingy with money; giving or sharing as little as possible; careful management of material resources; cheapskate; churl sounds like any, many, parry, pony
25. 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
26. 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

TA

28. TA5 — showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect; beat-up; bombed-out; dilapidated; dog-eared sounds like catty, chatty, fatty, natty, patty

TE

30. TE5 — very small in size; very small in size; atomic; bitsy; bitty sounds like genie, tinny, tiny, tony, tourney

TH

32. TH4 — sounds like array, bay, day, gay, hay

TY

34. 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

YA

36. YA5 — sounds like happy, yuppie

YE

38. YE4 — used to express agreement; all right; alright; aye; exactly sounds like you
39. YE5 — a person who habitually reveals personal or sensational facts about others; circulator; gossip; gossiper; gossipmonger sounds like bent, cent, center, centre, centum
40. YE5 — sounds like ante, any, bent, bounty, cent