Here there are Letter Boxed April 04, 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:
UAYTNOIFLDCB
The answers are:
FOCIINDUBITABLY
For this one, I used only the letters from yesterday’s puzzle, plus ‘D’. So, 13 letters in all.
SEA LEVEL RISE
Wavering . . .
Darkening . . .
Shivering . . .
A knave ere knew a snakelike shrew.
Her sniveling whining shirking grew.
Her kin, evasive, hid anew,
And several shrikes warned: sea is slew.
Alewives shrieking, islands shrinking
Awakes a living narwhal’s grieving:
A sea-skein wave’s reraveled weaving.
Erewhile, an evening’s gravish hark
Revealed a wailing killer shark;
Likewise, a single lingering lark
Risked singing in a silvering dark.
Slaves in weakish evil lashing,
Lavish laws and warlike leaning,
And none heeding an angel’s warning.
Evade a Viking’s viral glare,
Revile a rival’s garish veil.
Kill a weasel’s slavish snarl,
And glean an angel’s wingish sail.
Where was learning, where was harking
While whaling, risking, gnawing, snarking?
Alas, a sinking island’s shrinking.
Brilliant!
A ringing, wringing cri de coeur from the LB Laureate.
There’s something about this family of sounds . . .
Our wonderful language! 🌱
Possibly my favourite so far! ♥️
Didn’t spot FOCI, but found INDUBITABLY. Also DOUBTFUL, FANATICAL, ANALYTICAL. Found it rather BANAL today, though I did find FOCACCIA, if you’re allowing double letters.
Indubitably jumped out, leaving Foci in plain sight. It’s somehow disappointing when a triumphant find turns out to be the official solution… Indubitably is great, though – one of Daffy Duck’s signature pronouncements!
Official. I was thinking everything you wrote. Thanks for the post.
Also thinking of Burt in Mary Poppins song supercalifragilistic.
Another quick official. Not much wiggle room with this one, I suspect.
Today’s birds are mostly a collection of what have quickly become the usual suspects: ANI, TIT, DODO, BULBUL, and, if double letters are allowed, BOOBY.
and COUCAL
Right you are! Didn’t spot that one.
BIOLYTIC CANDYTUFT
Same here. A salvo of official solutions -scrolling down today’s page- until I eventually found myself in that minority camp, and just as I was thinking I might have come up with some sort of novelty (highly unlikely at this time of day & especially with so many beefy puzzlers going at it). I can, in fact, chip in an alternative to this alternative with COBALTIC – CANDYTUFT (which, in all fairness, makes it neither more efficient nor more thematically cohesive) -COBALTIC & BIOLYTIC being the last two words I went on to explore. Other finds include
BUOY, FOCAL, [OBTUNDITY], [(DUBITANCY)], UNFOLD, [(TITUBANCY)], FOUND, BOUND, [TUNABLY], DOUBLY, FANATIC, LUNATIC, DOUBTFUL, ACYLOIN, ANYBODY, [CLAFOUTI], FACULTY, BOUDIN, UNIBODY, CYNICAL, CLUB, AFOUL, [ACOLD], and CYCLOIDAL.
LBF score: 9 (7/12 letters rightly guessed). Going
RZU AIX VEN JOQ next.
On the birds’ front, & since we take liberties with double letters, we may also reintroduce the alternate (& arguably more consistent) spelling TUCAN.
biolytic – candytuft
See, now, this is why LB devotees are so, um, devoted! Candytuft, indeed! I had to look it up to believe it. Thanks to PG and Robin for the vocab build!
Official
4.4.23
UAY—TNO—IFL—DCB
Pairs:
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FOCI—INDUBITABLY
CANDYTUFT—TABLOID
BIOLYTIC—CANDYTUFT
BIOCATALYTIC—CANDYTUFT
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Triple: minimal at 14/3
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BIND—DUCAL—LOFTY
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Quad: Minimal at 15/4
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ACYL—LOFT—TUB—BIND
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Symmetric Quad: ↘️
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YOD—DAFT—TUNICA—ABLY
ABLY—YOD—DAFT—TUNICA
TUNICA—ABLY—YOD—DAFT
DAFT—TUNICA—ABLY—YOD
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Some word categories:
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Food & Beverage:
BANANA, CANDY, CANDYTUFT, COCOA, TICTAC 🙂
Animal Kingdom: CICADA, TUNA
Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics:
ACIDIC, ACIDITY, ADIABATIC, ANALYTICAL, BUTYL, COBALT, CUBIC, CYCLOIDAL, OCTAL, OCTYL
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Nice categorization! 👍However, candytuft is botanical (currently blooming) 🙂
Good catch, thanks!
Also, I should have put TUNA in both today, and KIWI was yesterday.
🙂
*as KIWI was yesterday.
Instant official!
Official.
I was actually surprised that what I came up with was official.
When it comes to pluralization it is weird that -us becomes -I.
Something appropriate for the season my wife and I argue whether it’s crocuses or croci 😀
Depends on whether the word has a Latin or Greek origin. Hence Alumnus/Alumni, but Octopus/Octopuses. Actually, I read thatvall those Latinate plurals are being officially scotched. Alumnuses / Alumnas, not Alumni / Alumnae. Stadiums not Stadia. Crazed grammarian though I am, I thoroughly support this. Ditto the soon-to-be standard They/Them as the solution to the problem of English just not working well in certain areas. Hey, it was good enough for Shakespeare and Jane Austen, it’s good enough for me!
That’s good to know.
Another one of my pet peeves is female of prince being princess and plural princes and something that belongs to prince is prince’s. And plural of princess is princesses and so on and so forth.
Conversationally very confusing.
Wonder Jill could make a song out of it all…
I will also note, not for the first time, that it is long past time we retire Whom and Whomever. Especially Whomever. The word should be excised from everyone’s vocabulary. It is basically never used correctly (another area were English does not work well). Luckily, it’s not only always wrong, it’s totally unnecessary. Just say Whoever. Even if you managed to hit on that one-in-a-thousand sentence where it’s technically correct, it just makes you sound like a pedantic jerk.
How do you like WHOMSOEVER?!
Official.
After spending way too much time with ANALYTIC(AL).
Same here. Both analytical and doubtful waylaid me for a while, both looking so promising. 🙄
Official. Thanks to 7th grade math teacher for Foci—and Loci as well 😀
Yes, although I saw it in high school. 🙂
All conic sections have foci, one for the parabola, and two each for the ellipse and hyperbola.
Other curves too evidently; I just checked with Wikipedia.
Our teacher was a sweet and quirky man. He gave us a Mad Lib once that was meant to be filled in with math terms, like “piece of—Pi”, etc. We all struggled with “Then she heaved a __” and groaned when the answer was “loci” 🙂
Ok, so BUNDT wasn’t accepted, but by some logic BOATY was.
Is anyone keeping track of these oddities of the LB lexicon?
I was flagging them for awhile, but they are numerous for sure. What’s getting me lately is the ones that are acceptable in Scrabble, but not LB.
I mean, BOATY is a proper noun, right?
Well the official answers to today’s puzzle are absolutely ridiculous. Why spend time looking for answers like those. NYT you need to change make them doable for all and start using a real dictionary.
Official after landing on UNDOUBTABLY and not being able to make that work. Before that my one-shy’s were: DOUBTFUL – LUNACY and FANATICAL – LOUDLY. Just laying the groundwork for you Jill 🙂
Got nowhere with the international food BIALY
Official today
Official. So proud I stuck with it. Was working on doubt for too long