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

Letters: k  a  b  c  e  i  l

• Total Answers: 38
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AB

1. AB5 — without warning; to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected; to make a strong impression on (someone) with something unexpected; suddenly; unanticipatedly sounds like attack, back

AL

3. AL5 — used to express sorrow or distress; alas; ay; wirra; woe sounds like attack, black, flak, lack, lak
4. AL5 — in like manner; having qualities in common; something or someone that strongly resembles another; also; correspondingly sounds like like, unlike
5. AL6 —

BA

7. BA5 — sounds like bobby, box, vodka
8. BA4 — earlier than the present time; toward the opposite direction; toward the rear; ago; agone
9. BA4 — as in tea, supper; as in cremate, incinerate; clambake; cocktail party; hen party sounds like ache
10. BA9 —
11. BA4 — something that makes movement or progress difficult; to prevent from achieving a goal; to show unwillingness to accept, do, engage in, or agree to; bar; block sounds like beak, bike, boar, book, bore

BE

13. BE4 — the jaws of a bird together with their hornlike covering; the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity; a public official having authority to decide questions of law; bill; neb sounds like back, bake, balk
14. BE4 — a natural body of running water smaller than a river; bourn; brook; brooklet; burn sounds like back, bake, balk, bare

BI

16. BI4 — a two-wheeled vehicle that is propelled by the use of pedals and steered through the use of handlebars; a great number of persons or creatures massed together; a two-wheeled vehicle that is propelled by the use of pedals and steered through the use of handlebars; bicycle; cycle sounds like back, bake, balk, beak, book
17. BI4 — a dishonest person who uses clever means to cheat others out of something of value; to rob by the use of trickery or threats; bilker; cheat; cheater sounds like belie, below, build, built, bulk

BL

19. BL5 — having the color of soot or coal; causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer; not having a light complexion; ebony; pitch-black sounds like back, flak, lack, lak
20. BL9 — to reject by or as if by a vote; as in veto; as in banishment, ostracism; down; kill
21. BL5 — causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer; marked by wet and windy conditions; uncomfortably cool; black; cheerless sounds like beak, clique, leak

CA

23. CA6 — an explosive sound that is a sign of amusement; friendly, informal conversation or an instance of this; to engage in casual or rambling conversation; belly laugh; boff sounds like crackle, hackle, shackle, tackle
24. CA4 — a small usually rounded mass of minced food that has been fried; something easily done or dealt with; to cover with a hardened layer; croquette; cutlet sounds like ache, bake, cock, coke
25. CA8 — as in message, conference call; cold call; conference call; message; toll call sounds like comeback, cutback, fallback, fullback, halfback

CL

27. CL5 — to make a series of short sharp noises; as in clatter, cackle; clatter; rattle; cackle sounds like black
28. CL5 — to form a close personal relationship; to turn out as planned or desired; bond; commune; relate sounds like flick
29. CL9 — to form a close personal relationship; to turn out as planned or desired; bond; commune; relate sounds like amicable, likable, livable

KA

31. KA4 — something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment; bread; bucks; cabbage; cash sounds like ail, ale, bail, bale, cage

KE

33. KE5 — sounds like cab, carob, crab
34. KE4 — a large craft for travel by water; as in drop, collapse; to lose consciousness; boat; ship sounds like call, coal, coil, cool, cul

KI

36. KI6 — as in slice, grind; chip; grate; grind; mash sounds like cable, cobble, nibble, quibble
37. KI4 — to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to present an opposing opinion or argument; a pleasurably intense stimulation of the feelings; beef; bellyache sounds like cake, chick, click, cock, coke
38. KI8 — to refrain from labor or exertion; to spend time doing nothing; as in backlash; bask; loll sounds like comeback, cookbook, cutback, giveback
39. KI8 — sounds like pinball
40. KI4 — to deprive of life; to reject by or as if by a vote; to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it; carry off; claim sounds like bill, call, chill, coal, coil

LA

42. LA4 — the fact or state of being absent; a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number; a state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful; absence; dearth sounds like back, b**, flak, hack, jack
43. LA4 — a large area of water that is surrounded by land; lagoon; loch; lough; pond sounds like ache, bake, cake, fake, f**

LE

45. LE4 — as in blunder; as in seep, trickle; as in warn, expose; blunder; blat sounds like beak, b**, cheek, chic, clique
46. LE4 — sounds like beak, bleak, cheek, chic, clique

LI

48. LI4 — a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument; a very small amount; the smallest amount or part imaginable; bang; bash sounds like chick, c, dick, f, hick
49. LI7 — easy to like; having pleasant or appealing qualities; admirable; reputable; respectable; adorable
50. LI4 — to wish to have; to show partiality toward; to take pleasure in; care (for); want sounds like a**, bike, dike, dyke, hike
51. LI8 — easy to like; having pleasant or appealing qualities; admirable; reputable; respectable; adorable sounds like fixable, pitiable