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

Letters: p  e  l  n  o  t  u

• Total Answers: 61
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

EL

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

EP

3. EP4 — sounds like easy, pea

LE

5. LE5 — a usually gradual decrease in the pace or level of activity of something; to come to an end; to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually; braking; deceleration sounds like setup

LO

7. LO6 — to move with a light springing step; bounce; bound; hop; lope sounds like dollop, wallop
8. LO4 — a circular strip; as in circle, spiral; to cause an unpleasant surprise for; band; circle sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, lap
9. LO4 — to move with a light springing step; as in bounce, skip; bounce; bound; hop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lap, leap
10. LO5 — sounds like coop, coupe, dupe, hoop, lap

NO

12. NO4 — sounds like cope, dope, gnome, hope, knoll

OP

14. OP4 — to change from a closed to an open position; to make passage through (something) possible by removing obstructions; to arrange the parts of (something) over a wider area; unclose; clear sounds like ocean, omen, pun, spun
15. OP8 — one that takes a position opposite another in a competition or conflict; one that is hostile toward another; adversary; antagonist; foe sounds like apparent, atonement, component, pennant, potent
16. OP7 — having goods, property, or money in abundance; showing obvious signs of wealth and comfort; affluent; deep-pocketed; fat

OU

18. OU7 — sounds like ample, apple, chapel, couple, doubtful
19. OU6 — something produced by physical or intellectual effort; affair; fruit; handiwork; labor sounds like input

PE

21. 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
22. PE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
23. 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
24. PE6 — a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm; as in bead, pearl; ball; bullet; bead sounds like palate, palette, pallet, parrot, pilot
25. PE7 — sounds like gelatin
26. 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
27. PE5 — sounds like den, hen, pain, pair, pan
28. PE4 — sounds like bent, cent, dent, lent, meant
29. PE6 —
30. PE4 — a person who does very hard or dull work; dogsbody; drone; drudge; drudger sounds like neon, paean
31. 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

PL

33. PL4 — to throw or set down clumsily or casually; as in sinking, plummeting; flop; flump; plank sounds like flop, glop, lop, pop, prop
34. 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

PO

36. PO4 — a person who writes poetry; as in poet, poetaster; as in poets, poetasters; bard; minstrel sounds like putt
37. PO4 — as in center, capital; as in punt; capital; center; cynosure sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
38. 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
39. PO6 — sounds like fallen
40. PO7 — to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable; befoul; contaminate; defile; foul sounds like salute
41. PO4 — sounds like pillow, solo
42. PO4 — sounds like bony, penny, phoney, phony, tony
43. PO7 — as in canoe, kayak; bateau; caïque; canoe; catamaran sounds like cartoon, monsoon, onto, platoon
44. PO4 — a small often deep body of water; a body of persons at work or available for work; the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time; billabong; mere sounds like cool, fool, pail, pal, pale
45. 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
46. PO4 — as in bishop, archbishop; abbot; archbishop; archpriest; bishop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pap
47. PO6 — a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; action figure; doll; dolly; puppet sounds like puppet
48. PO6 — having an abundance of some characteristic quality (as flavor); having great power or influence; producing or capable of producing a desired result; big; concentrated sounds like patent
49. PO5 — sounds like bolt, colt, jolt, molt, pelt
50. PO4 — a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval; a state of resentful silence or irritability; to extend outward beyond a usual point; face; frown sounds like bout, doubt, gout, out, pat

PU

52. PU4 — to utter feeble plaintive cries; bleat; mewl; whimper sounds like mule, pew, pool
53. PU4 — to cause to follow by applying steady force on; to draw out by force or with effort; to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure; drag; draw sounds like bull, full, pail, pal, pale
54. PU6 — sounds like bullet, palate, palette, pallet, pellet
55. PU7 — to leave a place often for another; to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable); an act of moving away especially from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable; bail; bail out sounds like bailout, bullet, clout, fallout, flout
56. PU4 — to cause to become a pulpy mass; as in novel, novelette; crush; mash; squash sounds like gulp
57. PU4 — as in skiff, canoe; as in pole; bateau; caïque; canoe sounds like bunt, hunt, paint, pant, pint
58. PU6 — a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything; one that is or can be used to further the purposes of another; as in doll, puppet; action figure; doll sounds like bucket, buffet, couple, covet, gullet
59. PU6 — subjected to and reacting with irritation; to bring to bear especially forcefully or effectively; to cause to cease burning; aggravated; annoyed sounds like cutout, petite, shutout
60. PU4 — sounds like but, butt, cut, gut, hut

TE

62. TE6 — sounds like beady, beefy, beep, beeper, cheap
63. TE8 — sounds like central, control, dental, enroll, entail
64. TE5 — sounds like guppy, puppy, touchy, tummy, yuppie

TO

66. TO4 — sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pope
67. TO6 — to go down from an upright position suddenly and involuntarily; fall; slip; stumble; trip sounds like tipple
68. TO6 — a headpiece made of natural or synthetic hair usually worn to cover a bald area; hairpiece; rug; wig sounds like loopy, rupee, soupy

TU

70. TU6 — sounds like runup, tonnage
71. TU6 — sounds like bellow, fellow, hoopla, impel, lapel

UN

73. UN6 — sounds like adoption, onion
74. UN5 — sounds like onion

UP

76. UP4 — in or into contact with; to seize and eat (something) as prey; to come upon unexpectedly or by chance; against; on sounds like spawn