NYT Spelling Bee Hints & Analysis

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• belie be in contradiction with
• bell attach a bell to
• belle a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals
• bible a book regarded as authoritative in its field
• bike ride a bicycle
• bile a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats
• bloke a boy or man
• bobble make a mess of, destroy or ruin
• bookie a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races)
• boxlike resembling a box in rectangularity
• exile expel from a country
• ibex wild goat of mountain areas of Eurasia and northern Africa having large recurved horns
• keel walk as if unable to control one's movements
• kibble coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food)
• leek plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild Allium ampeloprasum
• libel print slanderous statements against
• libelee
• like resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination
• lobe (botany) a part into which a leaf is divided
• oboe a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
• oleo a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
• ollie
• oxlike