Here are the Letter Boxed July 03, 2024 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:
ATIEFLMUCRZS
The answers are:
FUTURISMMEZCAL
CZARISM – MASTERFUL.
Same here. Took me only 10 minutes or so. Easy today
bravo! i was looking for a partner for MASTERFUL. settled for FILMIC-CAUTERIZES and FIRMA-ACTUALIZES instead
Those were my two: FILMIC–CAUTERIZES and CZARISM–MASTERFUL. Was determined to make CAUTERIZES work, but it took some doing. I did give up on pairing FUTURISM, though.
Same. Got CAUTERIZES first….had to back into FILMIC….not in my lexicon.
Filmic Cauterizes, filmic is a new word for me
Same here. I got CAUTERIZES quickly and FILM was staring me in the face. Took a long time for me to just guess FILMIC out of pure frustration but it worked!
Surprised that SAZERAC was not accepted given what the OA is. I think the word has become broader than the brand name.
FIRMA and ACTUALIZES also works
FILMIC / CAUTERIZES Took a while.
FILMIC – CAUTERIZES for me too. I knew it was too awkward to be OA, so kept on looking, and found MASTERFUL, but could not find the pair. CZARISM is is great find!
All alternatives have been much preferable to the OA. 🤦♂️
Me too! Nice.
Czarist – Masterful as well
FACTUALISM MESMERIZE
FACTUALISM MAZER
Great answer — too bad more people aren’t mesmerized by factualism!
MERCIFUL
LAZIEST
Spent time with actualizes, measures, armfuls.
That’s what I had! It was relatively easy. I rarely manage it in 2.
WORDPLAY:
5-LETTERS:
_ _ _IT
CLUE: WHATEVER IT IS, I CAN’T GO OVER IT.
limit
Hey, PGGIE, Mr.LWMMM,
🎉 🎉 YAY!!! You both got it! Good job! 🤓👍
LIMIT, indeed! 🤓👍
☢️🌹
Hi RrrF,
Everything has its -I-IT.
Hey, Mr.LWMMM,
Sometimes, sky is the limit! 😅
👍
IQG
UAE
RNB
LVC
CLUE: An auditor’s job…
NOTE: With British spelling…
I found a 19/2 solve with and E connector, but I am not sure about a British spelling 🙂
Hey, BILL DUFFIN,
You are probably right! Because the OA is a 19/2 with an E as connector. 😉👍
RECEIVABLE — ENQUIRING
I always use INQUIRING, but the British evidently prefer ENQUIRING. (??)
Maybe others can chime in on that speculation.
Sir BILL DUFFIN,
Yes, Absolutely! You got the OA! WOW!!! 😉
RECEIVABLE – ENQUIRING, indeed! 🤓🤗
Double thumbs up!!! 👍👍
☢️🌹
FUTURISM—MEZCAL oa
Our new and improved tequila.
CRAFTSMASTER°—RURALIZES
CRAFTSMASTER°—REACTUALIZES⁺
°OED:
craftsmaster, n. A person who is expert and experienced in a craft or other skilled occupation; a person who demonstrates great skill or artistry in designing…
⁺In Merriam-Webster
Nice TI Markie ❤️💜
🙂
The folks on this site are LB craftsmasters.
Another OED,
CAUTERIZES-SMARTFUL*
Good one DM. I’m relying on the OED more lately.
There are still odd exceptions though. I wanted to use “reactualizes” and could only find it in MW. It was not in OED, and it was not in the Scrabble checker I use.
Hey Mark!
i had been so busy writing up my odyssey (or diatribe) that i didn’t notice you had already done one of the solutions that i came up with!
I looked at the OED again and i see it has both spellings!
Interesting that OED says that CRAFTSMASTER is older than CRAFTMASTER.
I have a different LB question for you, but i need to look up some stuff first … maybe this weekend i can do that.
😎
Sounds good McBee. I’m seeing others here using other dictionaries too. I might try to branch out a little, trying to catch those exceptional cases.
FIRMA ACTUALIZES
Didn’t expect Firma to be accepted.
FAMILIC-CAUTERIZES
same …
Luke [wincing]: I’ll never join you!
Voted best scene of father and son bonding. I mean, Vader is literally a Disney Dad.
Ummmm, this TI also works for:
FILMIC-CAUTERIZES… which is what I actually got.
FILMIC – CAUTERIZES here as well.
Samesies.
CZARISM – MASTERFUL
Depressingly appropriate . . .
ZESTFUL — LACRIMAL
FACTUALISM — METRICIZE
I think there will be dozens of solves today. 🙂
FACTUALISM MAZER
ZESTFUL-LACRIMAL here too. Crying with joy.
This is where my journey ended as well. A little unusual because the Zs are typically in the middle of words, but I will shed no tears over this solve. Hope everyone has a ZESTFUL day!
Never saw the OA, but Yes to Zestful Lacrima, a one-word wine review; also Czarism Masterful, which seems redundant; Ultramafic Crazes, which periodically sweep the Geology field; Filmic Cauterizes, see Gone With the Wind; Factualism Mazer, a helpful philosophy for maze runners – too bad that’s not what Mazer means, but why shouldn’t it?; and Metricize Earfuls, for prescription drops. Back to Feast after yesterday’s Famine.
Same!
The app accepted ZESTFUL-LACRIMA as well.
(untitled)
Faults mesmerize,
fractures cauterize zestful estuaries.
A czarism, masterful? Merciful?
Not!
Only the laziest earful, lacrimal.
(all words from today’s array except: not, only, the
Yay!! Jill!
Super clever, Jill 👍
♥️👏🏻
Initially I see someone walking across a glacier.
Then the thought of current politics enters the walker’s mind.
🙂
Hey Jill! I’m tagging to you, hours later, because it seems so far you are the only other person who mentioned “fractures”.
Actually the first word that popped out to me from today’s array was “FRACTURIZES”
– and i would’ve done
FRACTURIZES SIMILAR
– then “FRACTURALIZES” but LB rejected both. I guess i was thinking one of them might be a geological or crystallography term, but no.
So then i tried just
“FRACTURES” which LB accepts, but LB rejected both of my possible matches “SIMILIZE” and “SIMILARIZE” even though both are in the major dictionaries.
Then i tried:
CRAFTSMASTER
(notice the spelling) and CRAFTMASTER, each to be paired with:
RURALIZE.
LB was fine with “Ruralize” but rejected “Craftsmaster” (a Merriam-Webster’s word) and “Craftmaster” (an OED word). I am completely baffled by that.
Anyway, sometime after that i got my zest back and i figured the OA must be the:
ZESTFUL LACRIMAL
turns out it’s no OA but at least LB didn’t reject my enthusiastic tears!
😎
After reading Mark’s entry earlier today,
I looked at the OED again and i see it has both spellings:
CRAFTSMASTER / CRAFTMASTER
Interesting that OED says that first evidence of CRAFTSMASTER is 1548, a little older than CRAFTMASTER (1557). Both words are in translations, but by different people. I don’t know what works they were translating, or from what languages.
BUT – i do hope LB will consider adding both spellings! 😎
Jill, Babe! Where ya been?
CZARISM-MASTERFUL
In about 20 minutes.
Filmic Cauterizes
Another Filmic Cauterizes here.
It’s not really the visual aspect that stands out with cautery. Maybe a golden opportunity for smell-o-vision!
Yep!
… my dermatologist loves using his micro-arcwelder on me – and he always uses a welder’s mask while he’s working with it!
😎
Merciful laziest
Ditto…MERCIFUL-LAZIEST
ZESTFUL – LACRIMAL for me too
TI: joyous tears
Also FACTUALISM – MESMERIZE
TI: entranced by knowledge
And me.
FACTUALISM – MESMERIZE
“Lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Similarly :
FACTUALISM – METRICIZE
(Although I suspect that a metric answer won’t be popular with our American friends)
Hi Thomas, I’m an American and I use the metric systems all the time. All good. 🙂
Physics use the “meter-kilogram-second”, and Chemistry uses the “centimeter-gram-second” frameworks.
The American (British Imperial) system is the “foot-slug-second” and it’s sometimes awkward, not being based on 10.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slug_(unit)
filmic – cauterizes
MERCIFUL – LAZIEST
I always look for the LAZIEST solution.
It is really merciful that the laziest solution worked this time.
Filmic – Cauterizes. Czarism – Masterful
ZESTFUL & LACRIMA. I almost cried with relief that I got a solution.
ZESTFUL LACRIMA
No furtive tears — cry enthusiastically! I tried to combine actualize, friezes, eczema, seizure, sacrifice, malice with something. No luck.
Filmic cauterizes
Here is the full list including Scrabble words:
** Don’t look at the list if you haven’t finished solving the puzzle **
(The first number is a count and the second number is the number of letters used)
1 – 15 cartfuls / sizeism
2 – 13 cartfuls / smize
3 – 14 cartfuls / smizes
4 – 16 filmic / cauterizes
5 – 16 fistular / racemize
6 – 17 fistular / racemizes
7 – 14 futurism / mezcal
8 – 15 futurism / mezcals
9 – 20 marmalizes / surfcaster
10 – 16 merciful / lazarets
11 – 15 merciful / laziest
12 – 15 firma / actualizes
13 – 16 czarism / masterful
14 – 15 tzarism / merciful
15 – 19 ultrafaster / racemize
16 – 20 ultrafaster / racemizes
17 – 20 ultrafilter / racemizes
18 – 19 ultramafic / casualize
19 – 20 ultramafic / casualizes
20 – 20 ultramafic / cauterizes
21 – 16 ultramafic / crazes
22 – 18 ultramafic / craziest
23 – 17 ultramafic / crazies
24 – 15 zestful / lacrimal
25 – 16 zestful / lacrimals
26 – 14 zestful / lacrima
27 – 19 factualism / marmalize
28 – 20 factualism / marmalizes
29 – 15 factualism / mazer
30 – 16 factualism / mazier
31 – 19 factualism / mercerize
32 – 20 factualism / mercerizes
33 – 19 factualism / mesmerize
34 – 20 factualism / mesmerizes
35 – 20 factualism / mesmerizer
36 – 18 factualism / macarize
37 – 19 factualism / macarizes
38 – 16 factualism / mamzer
39 – 19 factualism / metricize
40 – 20 factualism / metricizes
41 – 17 factualism / metrize
42 – 18 factualism / metrizes
43 – 17 familic / cauterizes
44 – 18 filmizes / surfcaster
45 – 16 framea / actualizes
46 – 16 metricize / earfuls
47 – 14 miltzes / surface
48 – 15 miltzes / surfaces
49 – 15 miltzes / surfacer
50 – 17 miltzes / surfcaster
51 – 19 aftermasts* / sulcalize*
52 – 20 aftermasts* / sulcalizes*
53 – 16 cartfuls / similize*
54 – 17 cartfuls / similizes*
55 – 16 cartfuls / sizeisms*
56 – 19 facsimilist* / tzurises*
57 – 18 facsimilists* / scruze*
58 – 19 facsimilists* / scruzes*
59 – 19 facsimilists* / seizure
60 – 20 facsimilists* / seizures
61 – 18 factualism / mamzerim*
62 – 19 factualism / marmarize*
63 – 20 factualism / marmarizes*
64 – 17 factualism / mauzier*
65 – 20 factualism / mercerizer*
66 – 20 factualisms* / sacralize
67 – 21 factualisms* / sacralizes
68 – 18 factualisms* / sazerac*
69 – 19 factualisms* / sazeracs*
70 – 17 factualisms* / scruze*
71 – 18 factualisms* / scruzes*
72 – 17 factualisms* / seizer
73 – 18 factualisms* / seizure
74 – 19 factualisms* / seizures
75 – 16 factualisms* / sizer
76 – 17 factualisms* / sizier*
77 – 20 factualisms* / sterilize
78 – 21 factualisms* / sterilizer
79 – 21 factualisms* / sterilizes
80 – 16 factures* / similize*
81 – 17 factures* / similizes*
82 – 17 fractures / similize*
83 – 18 fractures / similizes*
84 – 15 fractus* / similize*
85 – 16 fractus* / similizes*
86 – 18 futurisms* / sacralize
87 – 19 futurisms* / sacralizes
88 – 18 futurisms* / sulcalize*
89 – 19 futurisms* / sulcalizes*
90 – 16 futzes / salimetric*
91 – 15 fuzes / salimetric*
92 – 16 fuzils* / salimetric*
93 – 14 fuzils* / scamster
94 – 18 metrifies / sulcalize*
95 – 19 metrifies / sulcalizes*
96 – 15 mezcals / surfiest*
97 – 15 mirifical* / lutzes
98 – 19 similizes* / surfcaster
99 – 16 ultramafic / ceazes*
100 – 18 ultramafic / cruizies*
101 – 17 ultramafic / cruzies*
102 – 18 zestful / lacrimaries*
103 – 15 zurfs* / salimetric*
TZARISM-MERCIFUL, with just 5 minutes to go before the puzzle switched over at midnight! This morning I saw CAUTERIZES almost immediately and thought it would be an easy solve… but found no pair (never heard of “FILMIC”) and then tried over 30 words throughout the day.
Some of the ones I found:
FRIEZES
ACTUALIZES
FUTZES
FILMSETS
MASTERFUL
CRAZIEST
METRICIZES
FULCRA
CLARIFIES
ZESTFUL
RESISTFUL
STRICTURES
MISTRUSTFUL
SEIZURES
FRACTURES
FASCIST/FASCISM
FARCICAL
CALCIFIES
TURMERIC
CZARIST/CZARISM
So different from yesterday when it was hard to find any good words at all!