Here are the Letter Boxed November 17, 2024 Answers from New York Times Games. Our solutions and answers are 100% valid and accurate. We suggest trying to solve the game on your own before using the help of our website.
Sides of this Letter Box are:
MUXLRTDEBAFI
The answers are:
FLEXTIMEEARBUD
FLEXTIME — EARBUD
FLEXTIME was a total guess, but once accepted, EARBUD was right in the open.
Spent a lot of time with TURBIDIMETER, REFLEXIBLE, and RETEXTURE
Hey Bill!
today was another day where i overlooked the easy words like “Flextime”!
First, like Steph, i stirred “Admixture” and other MIXs around and around to no result.
Then i latched onto REFLEXIBLE and found only two words i could enter with it:
DURAMETER^ or
MAMLUTDAR”
Of course LB rejects both, and i can’t find them in MW or OED.
But Mamlutdar shows up in Wiktionary, and per the Hobson-Johnson dictionary was “Chiefly used in Western India. Formerly it was the designation, under various native governments, of the chief civil officer of a district, and is now in the Bombay Presidency the title of a native civil officer in charge of a Talook …”
That was back in the time of Kipling.
And of course “Duramater” is supposed to be two words – Dura Mater –
meaning “tough mother ” in Latin – which i didn’t know until i looked it up in Wikipedia – but apparently the one word spelling “durameter” is beginning to creep into the medical literature:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4533437/
So after all that i quit looking for LB approved answers!
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it looks like i’m inconsistent with spelling, but the NIH article generally uses “durameter” while the Wikipedia article is “dura mater” …
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LB has no consistency as to what it will/will not accept. It’s like a slot machine, and we are all anxious too see “GENIUS!” 🙂
I do recall from my anatomy class, that it was definitely two words. As a matter of fact, our prof said that he would not count it as being correct if we did not include both words. We also had to learn the arachnoid and pia mater layers. I’ve used arachnoid several times in LB, so I guess it was worth it to learn 🙂
OA
FLEXTIME-EARBUD. both part of the modern workplace.
Had a hard time letting go of ADMIXTURE
Me too with ADMIXTURE.
Best I found was TAXIMETER – REFUTABLE which would have been a good OA, if it had a D.
Ran out of time today, so I’m leaving it with MIXER-REFUTABLE and a left over D. 🙄