Here are the Letter Boxed April 09, 2025 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:
XLBOCUQMITYA
The answers are:
QUIXOTICCYMBAL
Instant OA
OA for me too.
QUIXOTIC – CYMBAL
…a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Quixotical – lamb
Quixotical Lobotomy
QUIXOTICAL LOBOTOMY
here as well.
Thrice with the overly optimistic cerebral transplant!
Same. Made me laugh.
Excellent alternative answer! My mental state after a long bootless search for a good solution.
I went with OA Quixotic Cymbal – orchestration for The Impossible Dream. Jumped right off the page, which I took as the sign of yet another one-off; although that turns out not to be quite true, it’s another highly restricted array. When do we get the wide-open set that historically follows a run of these?
What is OA?
Ditto and less than a minute, which is unheard of for me.
LOL – OA here too. (Liked CAMBIAL/CAMBIUM, but CYMBAL was the way to go!)
What wonderful stories you paint!
And I (finally) saw Lobotomy after sensing a loss coming. I had Quixotic immediately since I’ve been waiting for it to show up for months. A real thrill!
Me too! First time in a long time.
OA, also quickly.
Same. Every time I see a puzzle with a Q and an X, the first thing I do is check to see if QUIXOTIC will work. And today it did.
Absolutely. I told my wife that I’ve been waiting for QUIXOTIC to be a Letter Boxed word for a *long* time. But it kind of points up how dangerous it is to dump Q and X into the same puzzle. I may be wrong, but I think it’s easier for me to find two-word solutions to 6-words-or-less puzzles than for 4-words-or-less puzzles. There are just fewer words out there with those exotic letter combinations.
Same and OA quickly
Whereas I keep an eye out for (among many other things) Quincunx! I don’t think it’s ever shown up, and if it ever did, it would be wicked hahd to pair!
“Wicked hahd”… you from Boston?
Fastest one yet.
QUIXOTICAL – LOBOTOMY
Same
add me to this eerie solution
Same, but such is the noble battle for mental health. Now choose your weapon: ice pike, lance, or pharmaceuticals.
Same, and eerie.
Same. SO cross that I was so invested in the AL at the end that I didn’t get the OA. Still, this was quick.
Same, also my new band name. 👍
same
Same on this. Aquixotic? Quixoticaly? Lamby? Took a few guesses but it had to be there. I thought it was the OA.
quixotical – lobotomy as well
QUIXOTICAL / LOBOTOMY and fast today.
Same. Liked the answer too
QUIXOTIC—CYMBAL
QUIXOTIC—CYMBALOM
QUIXOTICAL—LOBOTOMY
Quixotical lobotomy for me too.
Meh
OA and ever so proud 🥹
OA here as well,but took a long time to see Cymbal.
Same here! (took awhile for Cymbal)
Quick today.
Quixotical lobotomy
That was the easiest one for me ever; however, without a challenge I don’t feel so proud. Quixotic Cymbal
Same here. I don’t much mind getting beat by LB as long as I have fun.
Got it
Quixotical lobotomy
OA
Got it virtually immediately.
QUIXOTICAL – LAMBY*
I also got that but LAMBY wasn’t accepted.Somehow I missed seeing CYMBAL. Got QUIXOTIC CALMLY YOB right away. My other 3w’s: QUIXOTIC CLUB BALMY, QUIXOTICAL LAMB BOY (since LAMBY got rejected), and QUIXOTICAL LOAMY YOB.
This was my first try, but when LAMBY wasn’t accepted by LB, I had to go with the OA
OA also immediately. First in a while. Got to be the q,u, and x which grabs the attention
QUIXOTIC — CYMBAL
QUIXOTICAL — LOBOTOMY
Couldn’t do much with CYCLICAL, TOXIC, or AXIOM
QUIXOTICAL – LOBOTOMY here as well
Broke my streak. Only could come up with QUALM MULTIAXIAL LOBOTOMY. No C. Was hoping Clambox was a word.
Qua autotoxic cymbal. Acquit toxic cyclical. Quixotic cyclical lamb. Quixotic calmly yob
Wanted to use multicyclic,bicyclic,calyx, umbilical, and bauxitic
And axolotl
Well done, Bill! I can’t believe I missed Axolotl! They’re all the rage.
OA.
Quixotical Lobotomy
OA, pretty quickly. Saw QUIXOTIC immediately and then a bit longer to get CYMBAL.
Jill,OA =official answer; todays is Quixotic cymbal😊
QUIXOTIC – (🙅♂️CLAMBY🙅♂️)➡️ QUIXOTICAL – (🙅♂️LAMBY🙅♂️) ➡️ QUIXOTICAL – LOBOTOMY
Jill, OA is Official Answer
Wow, I usually spend an hour or so puzzling over these things. Never got it with my first guess before — I’m so proud of myself! 🙂
OA. After starting with ACQUIT-TOXIC and seeing it going nowhere, changed directions…
Why do the time stamps on here seem to be in UTC?