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

Letters: b  a  e  k  m  n  t

• Total Answers: 32
• Pangrams: 1
• Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AB

1. AB5 — to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually; to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent; to put an end to by formal action; de-escalate; decline sounds like await, bait, debate
2. AB9 — something that is or may be subtracted; the amount by which something is lessened; the doing away with something by formal action; deduction; discount sounds like adjustment, allotment
3. AB4 — to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; brew; ferment; foment sounds like bet
4. AB8 — an act or instance of helping; to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end; aid; assist sounds like adjustment, allotment

AM

6. AM5 —
7. AM6 — sounds like asset, ebb, mare, mesh, mess

BA

9. BA4 — sounds like bobby
10. BA4 — a person who is just starting out in a field of activity; a recently born person; a lovely woman; abecedarian; apprentice
11. BA5 — sounds like bobby, box, vodka
12. BA4 — as in tea, supper; as in cremate, incinerate; clambake; cocktail party; hen party sounds like ache
13. BA6 — as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza
14. BA4 — a source of harm or misfortune; a substance that by chemical action can kill or injure a living thing; affliction; curse; nemesis sounds like arraign
15. BA4 — a number of things considered as a unit; a series of people or things arranged side by side; a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow); array; assemblage sounds like blank, bunk, dank, hank, rank
16. BA6 — of a size that is less than average; as in peewee, dwarf; diminutive; dinky; dwarfish sounds like phantom
17. BA4 — as in take off, abate; abate; deduct; knock off; remove sounds like a**, ate
18. BA9 — sounds like betterment, boatman, ointment, patent
19. BA6 — as in button, belay; as in fill, fatten; as in lock, bar; belay; button sounds like beaten, bitten, button, fatten, satin

BE

21. 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
22. BE4 — a narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object; to emit rays of light; to express an emotion (as amusement) by curving the lips upward; ray; shaft sounds like balm, bam
23. BE4 — the upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth; active strength of body or mind; language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense; block; dome sounds like ban, bane
24. BE4 — to strike repeatedly; to achieve a victory over; to be greater, better, or stronger than; bash; baste sounds like bait, bat
25. BE6 — depleted in strength, energy, or freshness; to strike repeatedly; to achieve a victory over; all in; aweary sounds like bitten, button, eaten
26. BE4 — to have life; to occupy a place or location; to take or have a certain position within a group arranged in vertical classes; breathed; existed sounds like ban, bane, bib, bid, big
27. BE4 — sounds like bait, bat
28. BE4 — given to or marked by cheating and deception; a habitual attraction to some activity or thing; a special and usually inborn ability; crooked; deceptive sounds like bunt, burnt, cent, dent, lent
29. BE4 — sounds like bait
30. BE6 — sounds like bake, boutique, brake, break, buttock
31. BE7 — sounds like bacon, taken

EM

33. EM6 — as in collect, gather; accumulate; amass; assemble; collect sounds like bank
34. EM10 — a bank of earth constructed to control water; dam; dike; head; levee

KE

36. KE5 — sounds like cab, carob, crab

MA

38. MA5 — as in rattlesnake, cobra; adder; anaconda; asp; black racer