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

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• Total Answers: 64
• Pangrams: 2
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AP

1. AP5 — sounds like acne, mania
2. AP6 — to cause an unpleasant surprise for; floor; jolt; shake up; shock
3. AP6 — an earnest request; the power of irresistible attraction; as in cite, book; adjuration; conjuration sounds like peal, peel, spiel
4. AP10 — to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner; beg; beseech; besiege; conjure sounds like achievable, available, peaceable
5. AP8 — as in defendant, plaintiff; accuser; appellant; petitioner; pleader sounds like belly, especially, jelly, lapel
6. AP5 — to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior; a person who flatters another in order to get ahead; to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior; bootlick; fawn sounds like addle, agile, ample, annul, chapel

BE

8. BE8 — sounds like banal, banjo, boll, bowl, bundle
9. BE5 — sounds like bop
10. BE4 — as in buzz; buzz; call; dial; phone

BL

12. BL5 — as in remove, cut; blip; clip; cut; excise sounds like beep, leap, sleep
13. BL5 — sounds like loop, sloop

EL

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

EP

17. EP4 — sounds like easy, pea

LA

19. LA5 — sounds like appall, appeal, compel, couple, gazelle

LE

21. LE4 — an act of leaping into the air; to propel oneself upward or forward into the air; a sudden large change or improvement; bound; hop sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep

LO

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

NA

27. NA4 — sounds like ape, cape, nip, rape, shape
28. NA8 — a person of rank, power, or influence in a particular field; baron; captain; czar; king sounds like nobleman

NE

30. NE4 — sounds like beep, cheap, deep, heap, jeep

NO

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

OP

34. OP4 — sounds like apple, ogle, oval
35. 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
36. OP8 — 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 puttable

PA

38. PA5 — a formal expression of praise; accolade; citation; commendation; dithyramb sounds like eon, peony, pun
39. PA6 —
40. PA6 — sounds like plaza, plop
41. PA4 — as in bar, paling; lacking intensity of color; lacking a healthy skin color; bar; paling sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, dale
42. PA5 — sounds like polio
43. PA4 — a boxlike container for holding a dead body; an overspreading element that produces an atmosphere of gloom; something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth; bier; box sounds like doll, loll, peal, pearl, peel
44. PA4 — as in palpate; palpate; feel; touch; brush sounds like pulp
45. 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
46. PA4 — sounds like arraign, bane, cane, chain, feign
47. PA5 — a meeting featuring a group discussion; a select group of persons assigned to consider or take action on some matter; a meeting featuring a group discussion; colloquy; conference sounds like annul, channel, penal
48. PA4 — a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man sounds like pop, poppy
49. PA5 — as in priestly, apostolic; apostolic; canonical; clerical; episcopal sounds like maple, people, purple

PE

51. PE4 — as in ring, chime; to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates; chime; ding-dong; knell sounds like ap**, deal, eel, feel, heal
52. PE6 — sounds like rebel
53. 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
54. PE8 — to remove the natural covering of; to rid oneself of (a garment); bark; flay; hull
55. PE4 — sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
56. 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
57. PE5 — inflicting, involving, or serving as punishment; castigating; chastening; chastising; correcting sounds like panel, renal, venal
58. PE5 — sounds like den, hen, pain, pair, pan
59. PE4 — a person who does very hard or dull work; dogsbody; drone; drudge; drudger sounds like neon, paean
60. 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

62. PL4 — a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective; something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; to work out the details of (something) in advance; arrangement; blueprint sounds like clan, pan
63. PL5 — a vehicle for traveling through the air that has fixed wings for lift; having a surface without bends, breaks, or irregularities; to make free from breaks, curves, or bumps; aeroplane; airplane sounds like lain, lane, pain, pane
64. PL4 — an earnest request; an explanation that frees one from fault or blame; to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for; adjuration; appeal sounds like alley, early, flea, flee, glee
65. PL4 — as in commoner, plebeian; commoner; plebeian; prole; proletarian
66. PL5 — as in commoner, plebeian; commoner; plebeian; prole; proletarian
67. PL5 —
68. PL4 — as in sinking, plummeting; to throw or set down clumsily or casually; plummeting; sinking; descent sounds like flop, glop, lop, pop, prop

PO

70. PO7 — sounds like blond, blonde, loblolly, palazzo, parlance
71. PO4 — as in center, capital; as in punt; capital; center; cynosure sounds like boll, bowl, coal, dole, foal
72. 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
73. PO6 — sounds like fallen
74. PO4 — sounds like pillow, solo
75. PO4 — sounds like bony, penny, phoney, phony, tony
76. 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
77. 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
78. PO4 — as in bishop, archbishop; abbot; archbishop; archpriest; bishop sounds like cope, dope, hope, lope, pap
79. PO5 — a male human parent; dad; daddy; father; old man