Letter Boxed April 04, 2023 Answers

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Sides of this Letter Box are:

UAYTNOIFLDCB

The answers are:

FOCIINDUBITABLY

40 thoughts on “Letter Boxed April 04, 2023 Answers”

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Bernie Horowitz

    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!

  4. 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.

    1. 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.

    1. Bernie Horowitz

      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!

  5. 4.4.23
    UAY—TNO—IFL—DCB

    Pairs:
    =========================
    FOCI—INDUBITABLY
    CANDYTUFT—TABLOID
    BIOLYTIC—CANDYTUFT
    BIOCATALYTIC—CANDYTUFT
    =========================

    Triple: minimal at 14/3
    =========================
    BIND—DUCAL—LOFTY
    =========================

    Quad: Minimal at 15/4
    =========================
    ACYL—LOFT—TUB—BIND
    =========================

    Symmetric Quad: ↘️
    =========================
    YOD—DAFT—TUNICA—ABLY
    ABLY—YOD—DAFT—TUNICA
    TUNICA—ABLY—YOD—DAFT
    DAFT—TUNICA—ABLY—YOD
    =========================

    Some word categories:
    ======================================================
    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
    ======================================================

  6. 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 😀

    1. Bernie Horowitz

      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!

      1. 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…

      2. Bernie Horowitz

        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.

    1. 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.

      1. 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” 🙂

  7. Ok, so BUNDT wasn’t accepted, but by some logic BOATY was.

    Is anyone keeping track of these oddities of the LB lexicon?

    1. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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 🙂

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