Letter Boxed October 24, 2024 Answers

FLANKER – REDUCING

TI: the closer they stand the less room there is between them

Fracked Dueling
Quick and easy today. 🙃

FRANKED DUCKLING. Poor thing got sent through the mail.

Flacked Durning

FEARD-DUCKLING (13/2)

Who am I to question the Letter Boxed dictionary?!

From Wordnik
1. The Century Dictionary: Afeard; afraid.
2. Wiktionary: verb (archaic), Simple past tense and past participle of fear.
3. Not accepted in Scrabble

OA. Under 2 minutes.

Freaked Ducking
Fastest solve ever.

UNLICKED DEFRAG

Freaked Duckling

Flanker-Reducing

feuding-grackle

Bird of a feather not flocking together.

Here is the full list including Scrabble words:

** Don’t look at the list if you haven’t finished solving the puzzle **

(The first number is a count and the second number is the number of letters used)

1 – 18 clunker / rangefinder
2 – 18 duckling / grandified
3 – 15 duckling / granfer
4 – 14 feared / duckling
5 – 13 feard / duckling
6 – 14 feuding / grackle
7 – 17 fickler / redarguing
8 – 16 fingernail / lucked
9 – 14 flacked / durning
10 – 15 flanker / reducing
11 – 17 flanker / reinducing
12 – 14 flared / duckling
13 – 17 flicker / redarguing
14 – 15 fracked / deluding
15 – 15 fracked / deluging
16 – 15 fracked / duckling
17 – 14 fracked / dueling
18 – 15 franked / duckling
19 – 15 freaked / duckling
20 – 16 infrared / duckling
21 – 13 ingulf / fracked
22 – 13 ingulfed / drack
23 – 19 knuckling / grandified
24 – 17 rangefinder / ruckle
25 – 18 rangefinder / ruckled
26 – 19 rangefinder / ruckling
27 – 16 rarefied / duckling
28 – 16 rucked / defilading
29 – 17 ruckled / defilading
30 – 18 ruckling / grandified
31 – 19 knuckler / rangefinder
32 – 17 acidifier / ruckling
33 – 17 acidifier / runkling
34 – 17 grandfilial / lucked
35 – 18 grandified / duckling
36 – 14 larfed / duckling
37 – 15 refraid / duckling
38 – 14 unlicked / defrag
39 – 16 unlignified / drack
40 – 18 unrarefied / duckling

41 – 15 arefied* / duckling
42 – 17 carnified* / duckling
43 – 17 carnified* / dukeling*
44 – 18 clucker* / rangefinder
45 – 19 clucker* / rangefinding*
46 – 19 clunker / rangefinding*
47 – 15 crackling / gulfed*
48 – 17 craigfluke* / earding*
49 – 17 craigfluke* / educing
50 – 15 craigfluke* / eland
51 – 17 craigfluke* / elfland*
52 – 17 craigfluke* / eliding
53 – 17 craigfluke* / eluding
54 – 19 craigfluke* / euclidean*
55 – 19 craigfluke* / euclidian*
56 – 15 crankling* / gulfed*
57 – 17 crunked* / defilading
58 – 16 crunked* / defleaing*
59 – 18 crunkled* / defilading
60 – 17 crunkled* / defleaing*
61 – 15 dinic* / craigfluke*
62 – 17 feaguing* / garlicked*
63 – 17 feruling* / garlicked*
64 – 16 feuding / garlicked*
65 – 15 feuing / garlicked*
66 – 13 fickled* / durgan*
67 – 17 fickling* / gerundial*
68 – 16 fickling* / grandeur
69 – 16 filander* / ruckling
70 – 14 flacked / dungier*
71 – 17 flacker* / redarguing
72 – 15 flacker* / reducing
73 – 17 flacker* / reinducing
74 – 17 flackered* / deducing
75 – 17 flackered* / deluding
76 – 17 flackered* / deluging
77 – 16 flackered* / deucing*
78 – 17 flackered* / duckling
79 – 15 flackered* / duding
80 – 16 flackered* / dueling
81 – 14 flackered* / duing*
82 – 17 flackered* / dukeling*
83 – 16 flackered* / dungier*
84 – 16 flackered* / dunging
85 – 16 flackered* / durning
86 – 14 flaker* / reducing
87 – 16 flaker* / reinducing
88 – 17 flankered* / deducing
89 – 16 flankered* / deucing*
90 – 17 flankered* / duckling
91 – 13 flicked / durgan*
92 – 15 flickered / durgan*
93 – 14 flung / garlicked*
94 – 16 flunker* / regicidal
95 – 15 fracked / dukeling*
96 – 16 gulfing* / garlicked*
97 – 19 infidelic* / craigfluke*
98 – 14 infrugal* / lacked
99 – 16 infrugal* / lackered*
100 – 14 infrugal* / licked
101 – 14 infrugal* / lucked
102 – 15 ingulf / flackered*
103 – 14 ingulfed / dacker*
104 – 16 ingulfed / dackered*
105 – 18 ingulfing / garlicked*
106 – 18 karangaed* / dulcified
107 – 20 knuckler / rangefinding*
108 – 20 knucklier* / rangefinder
109 – 21 knucklier* / rangefinding*
110 – 18 nuclidic / craigfluke*
111 – 18 reaedified* / duckling
112 – 15 rucked / defleaing*
113 – 16 ruckled / defleaing*
114 – 18 unacidic* / craigfluke*
115 – 16 unfeared* / duckling
116 – 19 unfeigning* / garlicked*
117 – 17 unfranked* / duckling
118 – 18 unracked* / defilading
119 – 16 unracked* / defiling
120 – 17 unracked* / defleaing*

I danced all around an acceptable pair of words. Finally came up with flacked and durning which LB accepted. I had to look both words up. Flack is related to an attack. Durning means anger or frustration. Or it is during just being misspelled.