Here are the Letter Boxed January 03, 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:
ZMCHGIETLOUN
The answers are:
CLUTCHHOMOGENIZE

CLUTCH – HOMOGENIZING
Hit the OA after a struggle. Not a ton that could be done with that Z despite the -IZE and -IZING being a available. 3/3 to start the year!
CLUTCH – HOMOGENIZE Pretty quick today.
Same…
Clutch – Homogenize
Clutch – Homogenizing
OA – maybe the quickest ever for me
clutch homogenize…
“Quick, my mom’s home! Everybody just act normal!”
Not my fastest ever but pretty fast OA
HUMECTING—GLOZE
UTILIZING—GEOCHEMIC
CLUTCH—HOMOGENIZE, —HOMOGENIZING
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CULMING—GENIZOTH^
ZEUHLʷ—LOCOMOTING
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^ Merriam Webster, ʷ Wiktionary
genizoth : plural of genizah: a storeroom or repository in a synagogue used for discarded, damaged, or defective books and papers and sacred objects..
zeuhl : (music) A subgenre of progressive rock, typically incorporating asemic lyrics, massed unison vocals (often with both male and female vocalists), and jazz-influenced rhythmic accompaniment.
HUMECTING – GLOZING
And for my failure on yesterday’s SLIVOVITZ ZEPHYR:
Three sheets to the wind.
Nice one! Can’t blow a good LB’er down!
Oa
CLUTCH-HOMOGENIZING
Same
Clutch homogenizing
OA
OA in a heart-clutching moment.
LUCHOTH/LUCHOT* HOMOGENIZE
*MW
ZOEICUM* MENTHOLING**
*MW
** industry term for adding menthol to tobacco.
“The mentholing of the filter or the tobacco column can be achieved by several methods, including the use of mentholated threads or the direct application of menthol-containing sprays.”
Also MENTHOLIZING, less common.
MOTHLING is sometimes found in old poetry, but has become a popular term in sci-fi and fantasy today.
Correction. ZOECIUM. Not ZOEICUM.
OA and homogenizing
Interesting how many went for the less efficient present participle rather than the far more efficient infinitive.
CLUTCH HOMOGENIZE here, reasonably quickly.
Agreed,this site is always interesting. Do you think, in the absence of helping verbs, prepositions , or modifiers, it may be better put as less efficient gerund vs. more efficient verb? Admittedly, I’ve forgotten a lot over the years.
Cingulum + mezuzoth
Good answer
OA
OA after trying to match up INCOGNITO for a time.
Clutch Homogenize
Chum menthol lozenge
Much homecoming glitz
Utilize echoing gum(not glum)
Utilizing glitch home
Zeolith(W) hogtie eminence
Fairly quick OA
OA pretty quick after looking at UTILIZING and ECHOING.
HOMOLOGUE – ENTOZOIC* lame LB will not accept entozoic…