Here are the Letter Boxed February 17, 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:
GLFAOEPRTDCU
The answers are:
PLAGUEDDEFECTOR
GATEFOLD DECOUPLER
PLAGUED DEFECATOR
CATAPULTED DROPFORGED
AFTERGO OCTUPLED
checking them now 🙂
CRAPOLA AFTERGUARD
COPULATED DEFRAG
FRACTURED DOGPLATE
CRATEFUL LAPDOG
I’m not checking my solutions anymore, for awhile, for the heck of it. 🙂
AFTERCLAP PUGDOG
PARADOCTOR RAGEFUL
FORELOPER RECATALOGUED
PERFECTOR REGULATED
FORCEPUT TEGULATED
FORGETFUL/GRATEFUL/REGRETFUL-LACEPOD
FUGATO-OPERCLED
PLEDGOR-REFRACTURED
PERFECTED/PERFORATED/DECOUPAGED-DEFAULTURE
AFTERCLAP-PEDAGOGUE
PERCOLATOR-REFUGED/REGARDFUL
FALTERED-DECOUPAGE
FORETOLD-DECOUPAGE
FALTERED-DECOUPAGED
FORETOLD-DECOUPAGED
PARADEFUL-LACTAGOGUE
GRAPEFUL-LOCATED
☕☕☕
Found Copulated and Defrag, as well. Lots of great possibilities today. A good way to start the week.
LOL – Living on the edge there Mark! CRATEFUL LAPDOG here as well. Love seeing the variety today 😉
Mark, this will never ever do! Stop the madness before it’s too late!
Found the OA, Plagued Defector. Well, what did he expect? Also Perfector Regulated, the opposite of DOGE. Which goes with Grafted Decouple and Grafter Recoupled, the Mump partners-in-crime over time. Also Crateful Lapdog. It’s okay, he likes it in there. You might even say he’s Grateful for it.
PERCOLATOR REFUGED
GULPER REFRACTED
^
Oooops!!!
No “o” in that second entry.
GRAFTED-DECOUPLE
👍 that’s what I got!
FAltered decoupage
CRATEFUL LAPDOG
Well-trained canine companion
CRATEFUL LAPDOG…
Feeding time for the raptors at Jurassic Park.
Well done! I spent some time trying to match LAPDOG before moving on.
CRATEFUL – LAPDOG
Trump cabinet.
Did your USAID money dry up?
GULPED-DEFALCATOR
FALTERED-DECOUPAGE
GROUPED-DEFALCATE
GULPED-DEFECATOR
GRAFTER-RECOUPLED
Grafted decouple
Same here…. grafter-recoupled
Got recoupled first, then worked backwards.
GATEFOLD-DECOUPLER
CRATEFUL-LAPDOG
Yes, same here but only after coupaged was rejected. The vagaries of LB
GRAFTED-DECOUPLE
grafted – decouple as well
SAME
GATEFOLD-DECOUPLER
AFTERGUARD-DECOUPLE
FORETOLD-DECOUPAGE
Faltered decoupage
Faltered Decoupage also
Because of all the JOANN Fabric stores closing, I suppose!
PLUPERFECT-TOGATED*
*TOGATED good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Scrabble US (TWL) not LB
PERCOLATOR-REGARDFUL
PLAGUED-DEFALCATOR
Again, what did he expect?
COPULAR-REGRAFTED
That’s what I got.
*FRACTUAL-LODGEPOLE
*FRACTUAL good in Merriam-Webster, Scrabble US (TWL) but not LB
*FRACTURAL not FRACTUAL-LODGEPOLE
*FRACTURAL not FRACTUAL good in Merriam-Webster, Scrabble US (TWL) but not LB
Grouped Defalcate
Grouped – Defectual
after many close, but no cigar combos and good words others paired I’m sure
Perforated- Decoupage (no L)
Regrouped-Defacto (no L) 🙃
Fractal – Louped (no G) 😵💫
Grouper – Refracted (no L) 🤬
Factual – Lodger (no P) 👹
Deregulated, Regrouped, Refractor, Outfaced, Cougar, Factual
Goldplated not accepted
Regrouped – Deltaforce 😩🤬
not accepted
OCTUPLED-DEFRAG
GRAFTED DECOUPLE
Well, that’s gonna be an awkward situation.
and afterwards GRAFTER-RECOUPLED
Same.
I was close to that. I had COUPLER-REGRAFTED
PERFECTOR – REGULATED
I can’t believe my answer is the OA. It is so simple.
Me too!
gulped defecator
Afterguard decouple
CUPOLA – AFTERGUARD
sorry: COPULA
FALTERED-DECOUPAGE
Same. Coming unglued.
Grafted decoupled
Grafted Decouple
Percolator refuges
Refuged
I was going for a 2-word solution after finding several threebies. However, I liked this one enough to just stick with it: GULP-PERCOLATED-DECAF
Nice!
Good one!
Copulated – Defrag
Haha. Same. Really thought ii’d
be alone with that one.
Another CRATEFUL-LAPDOG (14/2)
also GRAFTED-DECOUPLE (15/2)
OA
Yup!
GRAFTED — DECOUPLED
PERFORATED — DECALOGUE* (LB doesn’t accept this but OED does).
Also played with CATALOGUED, and both DROPFORGED and RECATALOGUED are hyphenated. 🙁
Grouped defalcate when embezzlers team up
CRATEFUL — LODGEPOLE. A big box of 2 x 4s!
Same here! I saw LODGEPOLE almost right away (I live in western Canada) and then after trying several other words I found CRATEFUL and used those two instead of looking for something more efficient. I should have thought of LAPDOG because we have three of them!
Regrafted decouple
Percolator refuged nursing home for obsolete coffee pots
Faceguard droplet bead of sweat from tenacious basketball defense. Hard to come up with unique ones today!
Faceguard depopulated
Copulated Defrag
FACEGUARD – DROPLET for me.
Faltered decoupage
Perforated decalogue was not accepted 🧐
Grafted and decoupled. Pretty easy today.
COPULAR REGRAFTED
GULPED DEFECATOR
Pledgor — Refracture. A little long but does the trick.
PERCOLATOR REFUGED.
GRAFTED DECOUPLE
Lots of great 2w answers here, wow! I got FALTERED DECOUPAGE, had meant to try DEFECTOR next and something with GRAFT. Lots of 3w’s as well.
Grafter recoupled
Plagued defecator
Richie – great words! Do you find all these or use a tool? If you find all those, all of my hats are off to you
Faltered decoupage
FALTERED – DECOUPAGE
TAPERECORDER – RAGEFUL
Was surprised LB accepted it! It doesn’t even look right. Only place I found it afterwards to check it was on Etsy, which uses it as a category.
A great example where LB accepts something that is clearly two words (in this case) as well as hyphenated words. I say great find! 🙂
copulated, defrag
REGROUPED DEFECTUAL
grafted-decouple
Percolator refuged
PURGED-DEFALCATOR
I haven’t seen this particular combination posted here yet.
PERFECTOR—REGULATED