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

Letters: k  a  b  d  e  l  n

• Total Answers: 45
• Pangrams: 2
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

1. AL6 — any of numerous saturated hydrocarbons; specifically : any of a series of open-chain hydrocarbons CnH2n+2 (such as methane and butane) —called also paraffin sounds like—falcon
2. AL6 — any of numerous unsaturated hydrocarbons having one double bond; specifically : any of a series of open-chain hydrocarbons CnH2n (such as ethylene) sounds like—clean, falcon, glean, keen, lean

AN

3. AN5 — a short sock that reaches slightly above the * sounds like—r*, uncle

BA

4. BA5 — sounds like—bobby, box, vodka
5. BA4 — as in tea, supper synonyms—clam**, cocktail party, hen party, house party, housewarming sounds like—ache
6. BA5 — as in dehydrated, parched synonyms—dehydrated, parched, sun*, bone-dry, hyperarid
7. BA4 — something that makes movement or progress difficult synonyms—bar, block, chain, clog, cramp sounds like—beak, bike, boar, book, bore
8. BA6 — to prevent from achieving a goal synonyms—baffled, beat, checkmated, discomfited, foiled
9. BA4 — a number of things considered as a unit; a series of people or things arranged side by side synonyms—array, assemblage, band, batch, battery sounds like—blank, bunk, dank, hank, rank
10. BA8 — as in lucrative, profitable synonyms—economic, fat, gainful, juicy, lucrative sounds like—affable, amicable, ankle, bearable, billable
11. BA6 — to form into a pile or ridge of earth; to put in an account synonyms—hilled, mounded, deposited sounds like—ranked

BE

12. 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 synonyms—bill, neb, nib, conk, honker sounds like—back, bake, balk
13. BE6 — 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 synonyms—bill, neb, nib, conk, honker sounds like—backed, baked, peaked

BL

14. BL5 — not expressing any emotion; lacking contents that could or should be present; having no exceptions or restrictions synonyms—catatonic, deadpan, empty, expressionless, impassive sounds like—bank, clank, flank, plank
15. BL7 — as in lost, forgot synonyms—disregarded, ignored, neglected, overlooked, overpassed sounds like—banked
16. BL5 — causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer; marked by wet and windy conditions; uncomfortably cool synonyms—black, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy sounds like—beak, clique, leak

DA

17. DA4 — slightly or moderately wet synonyms—damp, dampish, moist, wettish sounds like—bank, drank, dunk, hank, rank

DE

18. DE4 — to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement synonyms—fake, fake out, juke sounds like—buck, chuck, dick, dike, dock
19. DE5 — to elude (an opponent in a sports contest) by making a deceptive or agile movement synonyms—faked, faked out, juked sounds like—duck, dust

EK

20. EK4 — to get with great difficulty synonyms—scrape (up or together), scrounge, squeeze, wrest, wring sounds like—act, east, eat, peaked

KA

21. 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 synonyms—bread, bucks, cabbage, cash, change sounds like—ail, ale, bail, bale, cage

KE

22. KE5 — cubes of meat (such as lamb or beef) marinated and cooked with vegetables usually on a skewer sounds like—cab, carob, crab
23. KE4 — a large craft for travel by water synonyms—boat, ship, vessel sounds like—call, coal, coil, cool, cul
24. KE6 — as in dropped, collapsed synonyms—collapsed, crumpled, dropped, flumped, plopped sounds like—called, cold, cooled, field, sealed
25. KE4 — able to sense slight impressions or differences; causing intense discomfort to one's skin; having an edge thin enough to cut or pierce something synonyms—acute, delicate, fine, perceptive, quick sounds like—bean, can, cane, careen, clean
26. KE6 — to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely; to make a long loud mournful sound synonyms—beefed, bellyached, bitched, bleated, carped sounds like—canned, conned, fiend, kind
27. KE6 — as in run; as in gutter, ditch synonyms—run, cage, coop, corral, hutch sounds like—colonel, fennel
28. KE8 — to put or keep in or as if in a kennel; to take shelter in or as if in a kennel

KN

29. KN5 — as in work, form synonyms—fashion, form, model, mold, pat sounds like—bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
30. KN9 — as in plastic, fluid synonyms—adaptable, ductile, elastic, fluid, malleable sounds like—readable, redouble
31. KN7 — as in worked, formed synonyms—fashioned, formed, modeled, molded, patted sounds like—needle
32. KN4 — as in right, hand synonyms—body blow, hand, kick, left, one-two sounds like—any, bee, fee, gee, gnaw
33. KN5 — as in pushed, kicked synonyms—bumped, butted, jabbed, jostled, kicked sounds like—bead, cede, deed, feed, heed
34. KN5 — to position the body so that one or both knees rest on the floor : to fall or rest on the knees sounds like—deal, eel, feel, heal, heel
35. KN7 — to position the body so that one or both knees rest on the floor : to fall or rest on the knees sounds like—field, need, sealed, shield, wheeled
36. KN5 — to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates synonyms—bong, chime, peal, ring, toll sounds like—bell, cell, dell, fell, gel
37. KN7 — to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates synonyms—bonged, chimed, pealed, rang, tolled sounds like—felled, held, meld, shelled, weld

LA

38. LA4 — a large area of water that is surrounded by land synonyms—lagoon, loch, lough, pond, reservoir sounds like—ache, bake, cake, fake, f**
39. LA7 — sounds like—naked
40. LA4 — not stiff in structure synonyms—droopy, flaccid, floppy, limp, yielding sounds like—bank, b, c, dank, f

LE

41. LE4 — as in blunder; as in seep, trickle; as in warn, expose synonyms—blunder, blat, blurt (out), bolt, cry (out) sounds like—beak, b, cheek, chic, clique
42. LE6 — as in blundered; as in seeped, trickled; as in warned, exposed synonyms—blundered, blatted, blurted (out), bolted, cried (out) sounds like—locked, peaked
43. LE4 — a biennial garden herb (Allium porrum synonym A. ampeloprasum porrum) of the lily family that is commonly grown as an annual for its mildly pungent succulent linear leaves and especially for its thick cylindrical stalk sounds like—beak, bleak, cheek, chic, clique

NA

44. NA5 — lacking or shed of clothing; lacking a usual or natural covering; free from all additions or embellishment synonyms—au naturel, bare, bottomless, disrobed, mother-* sounds like—bacon, faded, jaded, knitted, knuckle
45. NA7 — a durable brownish yellow cotton fabric originally loomed by hand in China; trousers made of *** sounds like—hanky, lanky, panky