Letter Boxed April 20, 2023 Answers

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Sides of this Letter Box are:

OFICAMSLWDER

The answers are:

WELFARISMMELODIC

28 thoughts on “Letter Boxed April 20, 2023 Answers”

    1. exurban nodulize
      nodulize exurban

      I’ve been waiting patiently for the official answer to refresh, but it seems we have another glitch.

      1. Bernie Horowitz

        Yes, so it seems! We probably won’t see sn official answer until tomorrow. But we plow on regardless…
        I couldn’t pair Lizard; perhaps someone else will have better luck. I settled for Durzi Inexorable. What’s so relentless about this particular Indian tailor, I could not say. Their bill collection practices?

        1. whoa thanks for this! I was hoping there was something to pair with INEXORABLE (though I had no idea what Durzi is – google search led me to an NHL player before an Indian tailor). Hoping there’s someone for NEBULIZE(R) too

    2. It just occurred to me that the solver site Sota flagged a while back flags a solution as the NYT official, so I just checked, and, yes indeed, IDOLIZE – EXURBAN is listed there as the official solution today. The other suggested solution, NEBULIZE – EXORDIA, also works (EXORDIA is a PSW, but I had to look it up). But many of the “try also” solutions do not work. Which raises two obvious questions: How does whoever maintains that site know the official solution, if not by checking here, and, if they have some kind of privileged access, why are they not using the same word list?

      1. They’re all in cahoots, DW, to drive us crazy. 😃

        Seriously though, I’ve always wondered how this site knows what’s the official, since NYT does not reveal that until the next day. Maybe there’s a back channel of communication somehow.

        To your point on the word lists, I agree; I don’t think the solver apps know ahead of time. I’m guessing they’re just cranking it brute force.

        I do wish the site admins would explain the process. It’s not like we’d stop participating here if there was more clarity.

  1. IDOLIZE – EXURBAN 14/2 (I hazard a guess it will be the official solution)
    LBF score: 14 (6/12 letters correctly predicted). Time to throw
    RZU AIX VEN JOQ at them.

  2. Also IDOLIZE-EXURBAN, though I have no idea what exurban means. Someone who used to live in the city? Tried to make URBANIZE and INEXORABLE work. Also DUALIZE. I do like Bernie’s lizard!

    1. LB and its handling of proper names has confounded me for awhile.

      My ABELIAN is a good example. ABEL was a mathematician, a proper name, so it should be excluded, and it is. However, ABELIAN, an adjective, which is derived from his name, is allowed.

      In prior puzzles LB did not accept Eocene, Oligocene, and other geological epochs. I think they should have been included. Over time some proper names transform and become more standardized words in our vocabulary.

      Just my 2¢.
      🙂

    1. DIOXAN – NEBULIZER here as well. Didn’t know dioxan as a word, but in looking it up I also added ethanediol to my list of new chemistry based words!

  3. 4.20.23
    ZUO—IXB—RNL—EDA

    Pairs:
    IDOLIZE—EXURBAN
    EXURBAN—NODULIZE ⇄
    NODULIZE—EXURBAN ⇄

    Animal Kingdom:
    ALIEN 👽, ANI, BARBEL, BOA, BOAR, BONOBO, BULBUL, DODO, LION, LIZARD, LOBO, NUN, ORIOLE, OXEN, RAIL, ZEBRA, ZEBU.

    STEM:
    ABELIAN (group), ANION (X⁻), AXON, BENZENE (C₆H₆), BORANE (BH₃), BORON (₅B), IODINE (₅₃I), IRON (₂₆Fe), LUNA (🌘) , NEBULA, NEON (₁₀Ne), NEURON, NONZERO (≠0), XENON (₅₄Xe).

    Currencies:
    DOLLAR ($), EURO (€), LIRA (₺ for Turkey and ₤ for Italy previously), RUBLE (₽).

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