Here there are Letter Boxed December 23, 2022 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:
TQYRUAEXWNIF
The answers are:
FREQUENTTAXIWAY
very easy one… Official answer on the very first try
Same here. It’s both a relief and a disappointment to get it right out of the gate, especially after I had to abandon yesterday’s puzzle altogether when my beloved Axolotl proved a bootless dead end and my self-alloted time ran out.
Wow Bernie much sincere admiration for sticking to a time limit. I am often up so late and then again in a.m. when to tired to go on. Official but will go back tomorrow
I can’t claim to be entirely consistent with it! More an ambition than a done deal. But there’s more to life than Letterboxed. Right?
kilobit-tranche
I, too, promptly arrived at what will apparently be a unique answer. QUITE, QUIET, QUERY and ANTIQUER proved inadequate to put together a two-word solution, but I also had a chance to make sure FAQIR (as well as FAQUIR) would get the seal of approval -a rare case where Q isn’t necessarily followed by U.
Likewise. I will be gobsmacked if there is another solution. At least I just increased my time available for Christmas shopping.
FREQUENT TAXIWAY
but took me a few minutes!
Only one solution today!
Nothing but official here either.
The letterboxed champ is Bernie though for setting himself a time limit….and sticking to it!
Official
official
Official, just in time!
Official but didn’t believe it. Taxiway sounded made up.
Exactly!
I was stumped. Got Frequent-Taxi, with YW left over, but would never think to add -way to it. Frequent-Tawny-+IX unused, Antiquer was allowed also, Waxy looked promising, etc.
Official
Official.
Official.
Frequent flyers should have gotten this one off the ground in a hurry.
Gave up after an hour or so spread over multiple attempts, knowing that my head just isn’t in the right place today. I did find some good words, including TAQUERIA–just didn’t see the right connections.
Well done 👍
Dear friends,
For some reason, I am now persona non grata at the NYT, blocked from posting for the last week, from both my email addresses. I’ve written to the ‘help’ site several times, with no response. So I’m posting this through a friend’s email, in time to send you holiday wishes.
This group is now central to my daily life, so I’m hoping somehow to get this resolved. But meanwhile, taking a big leap of faith in case one of you is willing to post for me as a surrogate– you can find me at:
jstoner@berkeley.edu.
IN THE LETTER BOXED ZOO AT NIGHT*
Abroad in midnight’s sleepless haze
Beneath an eagle’s darkling gaze
A dozen letters in a cage
Stalk each to each across the page,
As animals, in xanthic light
Appear to us from night to night.
Our apophenic tendency
To find connections hard to see
Impels a jaguarundi’s prowl,
Orangutans’ sweet nymphet growl,
While unhelpful lizards slither free,
And lynxes slink, uncritically.
In the zoo’s aquarium
Pomfret, trout and mackerel swim;
Below, seahorses sanctify
The aquifer in which they lie,
And at the bottom of the sea
The quahogs slumber, clammily.
Just short of real, but hardly flawed,
A dowitcher in her traveling maud
Prepares to venture far abroad;
And monolithic caribou,
Soon to fly as Santa’s crew,
Still roam the tundra of the zoo.
In some corner, still unclaimed,
A vagrant’s shoebox might contain
A faithful lobworm to ordain
A catbird’s tongue, a kulan’s mane;
And our vulturish hacker’s holy grail:
A nonbiological lemur’s tail.
While adorable numbats fraternize,
Batting their bright corundum eyes,
An ubifex hermaphrodite
Moans with joy in the zoo’s dim light.
Megalodons wallow in yore’s steamy clime,
And smilodons smile through the tangle of time.
What do we make of this animal fest,
The brightest sparks in our nightly quest?
Are we monomaniacal zooanthrops
Together afloat in a boxy boat,
Riding the rapids of each wordly stream,
Or are we inside some noctambulist’s dream?
(*words and word pairs June – Dec 2022)
official, but not quickly