Here there are Letter Boxed December 26, 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:
IUAPEWTLOSFV
The answers are:
AVOWSSPITEFUL
Official answer. Not exactly festive, except in a Scrooge-before-the-fact sort of way.
Happy Boxing Day! I guess that makes tomorrow Unboxing Day?
Official as well
As one whose in-laws just now departed, I can sense some kind of underlying theme . . .
Official as well
Official
AVOW(AL)S—SPITEFUL
Not many options apparently, so I’ll look into the “quandary of quads”. :-)☕
Yes, in my haste I’d overlooked the shorter option of AVOWS. Still, happy to have solved in a matter of minutes.
Fowlups Salivate
Thematically strong and completely, self referentially, wrong. When you want it to work so bad.
Official
Not the most uplifting solution, especially at 4:50am when one can’t sleep…🥱
official
Official. Is someone out for revenge?
Jill, I wish I could rent some space in your head. That was simply amazing. Is there anywhere we can purchase your published work?
Official too
Missed it! Got AVOW WISTFUL LEAP
I was trying to work with WISTFUL, too.
Official
AVOWALS – SPITEFUL
An alternate 13/2 solution is PAWFULS SOVIET.
A Pawful or Roubles…
A Pawful of Roubles, even…
Nighttime in the Letter Boxed Zoo
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,
Weary from work as Santa’s crew,
Now 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?
(June – Dec 2023)
Thank you, Jill. The concept of uncritical slinking is going to stick with me for a good while.
Thanks for that, Jill; Brilliant once again! Largely N to Z (rather than an A to Z) since it spans the last six months (I figure you meant to say June – Dec 2022 and it’s because you just can’t wait to see the back of it)… Has an A to M actually gone through, which I missed out on?
All the best to you and yours, my dear!
Ah yes, 2022 is not quite past.
Ten points to Gryffindor! I would bet a lot of money that this is the only poem ever written that includes the word jaguarundi.
Apology for the long silence.
For some inexplicable reason, NYT locked me out for the past two weeks. It was depressing–so glad to be ‘persona grata’ again.
Jill,
There are no words (cause you used them all already) to describe your wonderful use of them!
This was a true pleasure.
I started reading here (commented later) just within the timeframe covered. It was really fun to see nods to both the puzzles we have enjoyed all together, and the discussions had about them.
I will always be able to say, “I was there the day Jill learned the word apophenia”.
Anyway,
Big Cheers to you and thanks.
@Jill – that was amazing!! 🤩🥳. It made me so happy that I decided to abandon and come here to see what people found…reading this was a delight!
I bailed today at FESTIVITIES-SOUPS-SLAW…the usual offerings on the family buffet. 🤷🏼♀️ 🥳🥣🥬
OUTVIES – SWAPFILE 15/2. Not thrilling but, at least, different. FESTIVAL, PIVOTAL, VESTAL, WAVES, VALETS, SLAVE, STAVE, PIOUS, OVULATES, SULFATE, STIPULATE, UPLIFTS, FLUTES, OUTFLIES, WISTFUL -they all turned out to be WASTEFUL…
PIVOTAL was not actually on (I hallucinated momentarily).
Remarkable, Jill.
AVOWALS and SPITEFUL here also.
No time or vision for the last few days–too much seasonal distraction? Closest I got today was Fatuous- Swivel (missing P). Lots of words to play with, though: Fatuous, Swivel, Festivals, Positive, Soup, etc.
Best 2023 to all.
official here as well. Had AVOWs early on, but missed spiteful. Was disappointed not to have STIPULATIVE accepted, but since I couldn’t pair it with anything it’s a moot point. Off to run on the treadmill and work off some of the holiday treats 🙂
Official answer. Spent too much time trying to make a link of positives and lawful
Surprised and happy to see AVOWS SPITEFUL as official.
Got it after quite a bit of work.
Surely if one can swivel one can OUTSWIVEL by the LAPFUL. Alas that was all i had to give today