Letter Boxed January 17, 2023 Answers

Here there are Letter Boxed January 17, 2023 Answers from New York Times Games. Our solutions and answers are 100% valid and accurate. We suggest to try and solve the game by your own before using the help of our website.

Sides of this Letter Box are:

IEDBGAFNUTRO

The answers are:

FIREBRANDDUGOUT

65 thoughts on “Letter Boxed January 17, 2023 Answers”

      1. I actually got mixed up, between the moment and solved and three seconds later when I posted.
        It was meant to be DOUBTER – RAFTING
        (Though I was disappointed that ‘doubting grifter’ was not to be.)

        1. Grafter is a predecessor of grifter, in the ballpark anyway. If you should do a drawing of the sorry fellow I would enjoy seeing it.

    1. TURF – FINGERBOARD here, as well, after failing to put to good use any of BOATING, FRAUD, FREON, OBDURATE, BINGO, FEATURING, DOUBTING, FRINGE, DAFT, BURGEON, ADRIFT, INDRAFT, INGRAFT, BURGONET, FAINTER, or BREADFRUIT (the latter of which was quite straightforward, as PG showcased).

        1. Being in constant pursuit of efficiency, I’d only go to words like BEGRUDGING as a last resort (with G repeated not once but twice). I usually explore words with sigle-use letters and duplicate ones when I feel it’s worth the bargain: BREADFRUIT is one example where, despite using R twice, you have nine out of ten unique letters & you’ve also shoehorned a difficult one (F in this instance) into the middle of one of the words..

          1. I get and respect that, but it’s not so much a concern of mine. You don’t get gems like ‘NUCLEOSOMES—SOFRITO’ worrying about efficiency! ;^)

          2. (in response to KP 6:22 PM) Agreed, but there’s no way you can actually work on them; they just come by -occasionally…

  1. Same as the remarkable Jill, Doubting Grafter. The doubting grafter slunk away,
    unsure of how to stay and play
    his conniving game of scammery,
    without his missing grafter G.
    Thank you Jill for your shimmering poetic contributions to this board.

    1. Thanks Phil– (I actually solved with ‘doubter – rafting’ but my fingers transposed the suffixes.
      Your quatrain is fun, and begs for an illustration.

  2. My final was Feard Doubting, which has some thematic integrity, however archaic, and at 13/2 ain’t too shabby. Also Breadfruit Tango (clearly code), Doubter Rafting (recipe for riparian disaster) and Doubting Grafter (ditto for botanical). Other unpaired finds: Tangerine, Outgoing, Fondue, Egret, Regret, Adrift, Begonia.

          1. I know– when I moved to Canada 7 years ago I fell in love with the toque, both word and thing.
            I’m not sure where they call them ‘dut’– looking for a reference, but so far no luck.

          2. I did find a slang definition. But I just don’t understand why the puzzle doesn’t use the Scrabble word list, which does not include dut.

  3. Another long one – DAUBER – REFRIGERATION.

    Quick one today, but will check back to see the ingenuity today on more thematic answers and of course, the new words (e.g. DUT – that’s a good one!)

  4. Begonia – afterguard

    Had to look up afterguard
    1: the sailors stationed on the poop or ‘after’ part of a ship
    2: the decision-making members of a sailboat racing team usually including a helmsman, tactician, and navigator

  5. Doubter rafting

    I couldn’t use refrigeration , turns out some of you did.
    How about gingerbread? Can someone use it?

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