Here there are Letter Boxed April 23, 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:
GVSFIARBNEDH
The answers are:
FEVERISHHANDBAG
BEFRIENDS SHAVING
Me too. A college dorm activity?
Ditto…
BEFRIENDS – SHAVING here as well. It always felt like I was missing something significantly simpler, but the official solution -albeit one letter shorter- turned out to be, more or less, in the same league. Other finds: BEARDS (justifying SHAVING), HAV(ER)ING, BIRDS, SEABIRD(S), BEADING, DRIVE, GRANDSIRE(S), and FEVERISH (spotted but not thoroughly explored).
LBF score: 7 (7/12 letters guessed), and sticking with
RZU AIX VEN JOQ.
Same. Really quickly too, which is good coz I’ve struggled recently.
Yep, same here. Lots to play with, though, with the βING ending. It’s nice to see that the official doesn’t use it, nor does it employ the ‘S’ as a plural-izer.
Same… Can’t do it (as hard as I’ve tried)
Same for me, in record time. I expect a long painful drought to follow.
Same
Funny how sometimes you look at the puzzle and a solution leaps right out at you, and at other times an obvious solution stares you in the face and you just don’t see it. Today was a case of the former with BEFRIENDS – SHAVING, which I eventually did in my twenties. Late bloomer. Apologies if TMI.
π¦ SHAG, SERIN, IBIS, ANI, DIVER in the singles; HARRIER in the doubles. This array was a missed opportunity: BIRD is available, but the other letters do not permit exploitation.
SEABIRD could be an option, or is it too generic?
I thought about including it, and I suppose to some extent it’s a judgment call based on taste, but I left it off because it isn’t used taxonomically or in actual bird names.
BTW, you have opened a window of opportunity for me to indulge in one of my rants! π There is no such thing as a seagull. There are only gulls. And they are not confined to the sea.
Yes, itβs sad to see Bird going to waste.
FWIW and BTW, Harrier is a dog as well as a bird, so thereβs that.
This I didn’t know! π
Yeah, kinda like a leggy beagle.
okay, but at least acknowledge BIRDING?
πππ
First official i guess
Same. Official. Third.
Official here, too.
Here too, official!
Official. Love the image.
Official answer here as well. I do like its surreality. Pirandello would have enjoyed it, and Zippy the Pinhead would have had a βZippy Momentβ.
Ah, Zippy … Gone but not forgotten!
I channel the Zipster with surprising frequency.
Official here, too, after several three-word solutions.
Official here and fairly quickly. Fairly constrained today, although nice to see at least two solutions. Couldn’t agree more with DW – sometimes the answers seems obvious, and on other days I literally can spend an hour or more to no avail. Guess that’s why we all keep coming back!
Feverish and handbag
4.23.23 : GVS—FIA—RBN—EDH
Pairs:
FEVERISH—HANDBAG
BEFRIENDS—SHAVING
F&B: ANISE, BANANA, BEANS, FRIES, GINGER, GINSENG, RADISH, RIBS, SARDINES, VINEGAR.
Animal Kingdom: ANI, AVES, BADGER, BEAR, BEAVER, BIRD, GAR, GREBE, HARE, IBIS, NENE, RAVEN, SEABIRD.
Official.
Was dreading it because I thought it had to be a compound word solution. Looks like some of you find an alternate that is not.
befriends – shaving
BEFRIENDS-SHAVING, too. Wanted to find a way to get REFRESHING and BEAVER to work, but couldnβt.
Befriends Shaving
BIRDIESβ SONG
A riverβs sandbar rising high
A seabirdβs saraband is nigh
Hear the grieverβs vivid sigh.
Shards of savagesβ vanished signs
Ravenerβs severed hands, still shining.
Seven grebes disband the vines,
Shivering, havening, singing, vanishing.
Sighing, fearing, reading, raving
A neighborβs sign, a dire engraving
Infers the danger, sings of saving.
The fervid, driven, birds abide
The vaguaries of the riverβs haven.
To not infringe, evade or hide
From vivid dangers still engraven.
Revenge enshrined, the ravished grievers
Sit shivah with all feverish dreamers,
Ever friends, and now bereavers.
so:
Revere, enshrine, reread, rehearse
The birdiesβ voice, their virgin verse.
(Most (but not all) words are composed of letters in today’s array.)
I found “Revere, enshrine, reread, rehearse” most meaningful, Jill.
And I see my grebe in there.
π Well done.
So wonderful Jill! Always my favorite thing that happens. This one suggests musical collaboration. Everyone has been co cool, and fun, and creative, and poetic… and I’m still just trying to adjust to the idea that I have to massively irritate my skin for the sake of friendship.