Here are the Letter Boxed February 21, 2026 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:
AGRTKFHNOYIE
The answers are:
FEATHERYYOKING
(IN)FIGHTER—RYOKAN
FEATHERY—YOKING
YAKITORI—INFIGHTER
FATHERKIN—NEGOTIATORY
HAYFORK—KITENGE
Kitenge is a new word for me.
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I was trying to make it work with KNIGHT and couldn’t work it out. Will file away kitenge now, thank you!
Frightener – Roaky
𝓛𝓲𝓴𝓮𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓮.
Took me 30 minutes.
18/21.
47/52
Current streak: 11
OA here as well. Less than an hour, but not much. Thought it would be quicker with this letter array. 50/52, 21/21, 24
Got the OA in about a minute… Was kind of surprised it was the OA.
Same here, got the OA after an hour. Got FORTNIGHT, FRIGHTEN, FREAKING, KAYAKING, FATHERING, FROTHING, INTERFERING, RIGHTIFY, and YANKING. Once I focussed on Y as the pivot letter things became easy.
19/21, 46/52
Current streak: 11
Add Gentrify, Forefather, and Firefighting to that list af almosts.
Same here – late today because I’ve had a full day of sessions at theological college, had half an hour before dinner, hadn’t solved it, came back after evening activities and was done in 10 minutes. I suddenly saw YOKING, put it in and went YES! Hope the student in the next room didn’t hear me, as it’s now after 10pm, LOL.
Ah, well done, Irim! I was waiting for your comment.
Same here
FRIGHTENER RYOKAN. Damn! Didn’t see Mark’s variation!
Good one
Nothing for FORTNIGHT?
FIREFIGHTER-RYOKAN
*FORETHINKING-GYANG*
*FORETHINKING good in OED
*GYANG good in OED
Forethinking* – Goaty
**OED
also found…
Refighting and Frightening (leaving just “okay, oaky, kayo”)
Threatening, Freaking, Refortify, Fortnight
Frightener ryokan quickly
WEnt with HAYFORK KITENGE after battling with words like RETHANKING, GINKGO and GHERKIN.
also HAYFORK KENTING*
*OED
FORENIGHT* TOKAY
*OED, MW
FEATHERY-YORKING
Less efficient, but accepted😉
Same, yorking is a new word for me.
It’s a cricket term.
Don’t know why FREAKING – GOTHY was not accepted
Yakitori – infighting
Feathery yoking
Just for fun:
AFORK KNIGHTERY
I kind of got sidetracked today by trying out nonce words. I toyed with KNIGHTERY and found examples of it used in OED as “carpet-knightery” which is a Shakespearean-era insult of someone who becomes a knight by being dubbed so on a carpet rather than earning the title in battle. Sir Andrew Aguecheek, for example.
I then matched it with the only thing I could come up with: AFORK. That turns out to be computer shorthand for “Asynchronous Fork” — an alt to “vfork”. Time to take a break. 🙂
Also fun- freaking gothy! (W)
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OA in a few minutes. But not until after trying to sneak in a proper name with FEATHERING – GORKY
Accdg to Wiktionary and YourDictionary, “gorky” also means “awkward and strange.”
OA