Here are the Letter Boxed July 09, 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:
LOAINKPGREDC
The answers are:
DOGNAPPICKEREL
DOGNAP – PICKLER
Same, and disappointed. “Dognap,” seriously?
Same answer here. Had PICKLER first. Was thrilled when DOGNAP was accepted. It was a pretty quick solve and I always love it when my answer is more efficient than the OA.
Agree. LB is a disappointment today. Glad I did not waste a lot of time on it. Dognap and Pickerel?1?! Really?
Agreed, although, for the first time in days I actually landed on the OA after coming up with PICKEREL (and was surprised DOGNAP was actually accepted as valid!). Also played with CROCODILE, and REPACKAGE to ill-effect.
DOGNAP – PICKLER also.
Kellie’s canine caper.
Yep. Hard to beat 13.
OA
PICKLER / RENEGADO
Surprised RENEGADO was accepted. Thought I’d give it a shot 😉
I also found PICKLER – RENEGADO. Oh well
Same!
DOGNAP-PICKLER
*CARDIOPLEGIA-AKOND*
*CARDIOPLEGIA good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Wiktionary
*AKOND good in OED
*PICKADIL-LEGIONER*
*PICKADIL good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Wiktionary, Scrabble US (TWL)
*LEGIONER good in OED, Wiktionary
*DIGIPACK-KORONEL*
*DIGIPACK good in OED, Collins, Wiktionary, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
*KORONEL good in Wiktionary
PENDICLER-RAGOK*
*RAGOK good in Wiktionary
*DOGNAPER-RICKLE*
*DOGNAPER good in Merriam-Webster, Collins, Wiktionary, Scrabble US (TWL)
*RICKLE good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Wiktionary, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
Danger Rockpile*
* Alas, Rockpile not recognized in LB.
Me too. I’m always trying to mash open compounds together. Sometimes it works but dictionaries are aligned against this one.
DANGER – ROCKPILE
Will Robinson meets Benjamin Grimm.
Apparently ROCK PILE is 2 words
Same. I refuse to believe that ROCKPILE is unacceptable, whereas DOGNAP is.
I’m still upset that ADIRONDACK wasn’t accepted 🙄
KOEPANGER – RADICLE
(hooray for having worked in a very international space for over a decade!)
PICKLER RENEGADO
This was my answer, as well.
Same. This is like a rebel food preservationist I guess.
DOGNAP — PICKLER
Found PICKLER early but then went down a rabbit hole with CARDIA, CARDIAC, PERICARDIA, ENDODCARDIA*, LIPOCARDIA* (LB only accept PERI-). Also found DARKEN, DRAGON, PERIODIC, etc.
OA in short order. Found PICKLE first and added the R just for grins which led me to throw in DOGNAP on a whim while wondering if cats can nap, dogs have them beat by a mile (at least mine do!) but the meaning changes dramatically when kids are introduced. So it led me to wondering if the napping of dogs is about sleep or larceny?
That was exactly my process — The Pickler is our latest indoor pickleball facility and I figured dognap was either a quick snooze or something extra the butcher gives you for your canine. Took a moment to realize the other meanings for both words
Dognapping is stealing a dog. It’s not a sleeping dog. 🙂
What the heck is a pickerel? Oh, a fish. I’m from the city, we don’t do pickerels.
dognap-pickler
DANGER – ROCK PILE
PERIODIC – CRACKLE – ENGAGE
Couldn’t get ANGELIC to work.
Got stuck looking for words that didn’t work. I had PICKEREL but didn’t see DOGNAP.
PAPERCLIP PENDRAGON* NOCK
Also PARANOID DOCK KLIEG
Pickler Renegado
DOGNAP / PICKLER
OA pretty quick.
EPICARDIA – ANGLER – ROCK
Dognap pickler
Ooh, I got Dog and Nap, and Pickler, didn’t think of Dognap and tried unsuccessfully to form compound words – ROCKPILE not okayed – my best was 14/3 PICKLER RANG GOD.
Got danger rockpile early, when LB didn’t accept , spent all day(off and on) looking for what it would take .didn’t even think to try dognap. Right.
Crocodilian repackage andiron airdrop ear drop paraganglion paragoric paraplegic pork pie pagoda canonic canopic earlier kendo danglier airlock pericardiac riparian cardigan and too many more. Dognap!
Pickerel too
Found PONDAGE before DOGNAP but could not find a match for it. Then found DOGNAPER* – RICKLE, then OA
Fail today. Had PICKLER but didn’t think of DOGNAP.