Here are the Letter Boxed May 18, 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:
EDABILCRHNTW
The answers are:
BANDWIDTHHERETICAL
WHIRLWIND DIABETIC
7 CITIES
5 RINGS
THIS IS HOW I CONTRIBUTE TO HIS LEGACY
BANDWIDTH-HERALDIC
WHIRLWIND-DIABETIC
Same…
DIABETIC is the first word I found. I came full circle when I found WHIRLWIND.
Whirlwind-Diabetic. Swept off my feet by a weekend of dialysis.
Same WHIRLWIND – DIABETIC. Found first word immediately, played around with BANDWIDTH, HINDBRAIN, BRACELET, BANDIT, INDICATE, HAIRBAND, etc
Same, literally, immediately, just enough time to type the letters. lol
Whitewater rebalance.
Same here
Same. Got it pretty quickly
*NETHERLANDIC-CATAWBA
*NETHERLANDIC good in OED, Merriam-Webster, Collins, Wiktionary
*HINDWARD-DIABETICAL
*HINDWARD good in OED, Collins, Wiktionary, Scrabble UK (SOWPODS)
I got the OA
BANDWIDTH HERETICAL
after spending too much time on WITHDRAWAL and BALANCE.
I got the OA after spent too much time with BATHWATER, WATERBATH, NETHERWARD and ELECTRICAL
Bandwidth — Heretical, too. Found Bandwidth quickly, then Heretical took a while.
Bandwidth- heraldic here too.
Same.
TI: The frequency of angelic announcements! 🎺 🪽
Yup! In a flash!
Bandwidth-Heraldic for me as well. Was interesting that both Balance and Withdrawal were in this puzzle as well, which uses all the letters but didn’t connect. Would have been an awesome TI.
Same here for Goldie!
Me too!
Netherward – diabetical
Bandwidth, heretical
the BANDWIDTH-HERALDIC… the guys with flags hanging from their horns that play when the king comes out.
“Doth thy dare tooteth thine horn thusly!?”
“Verily, man… I’m width the band!”
Ye Olde Knight’s Honor, in Megabits per Second.
BANDWIDTH – HERALDIC
Ions rampant.
Had BANDWIDTH and WHIRLWIND, didn’t stick with it long enough to see the obvious.
Also had WHEREWITHAL, but not the wherewithal…
BANDWIDTH—HAIRLACE²
BANDWIDTH—HEBRAICALⁿ
BANDWIDTH—HERACLEIDⁿ
BANDWIDTH—HERALDIC
BANDWIDTH—HERALDICAL°
BANDWIDTH—HERETICAL
BANDWIDTH—HIERATICAL
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² two words, ⁿ proper name, ° OED
An LB short story:
I seek the WHITE WHALE! Is it a NARWHAL? No, he’s a Sperm WHALE. He’s BALD, and covered in BARNACLEs.
WATERLANDIANⁿ? NETHERLANDICⁿ? ICELANDICⁿ?. No, he hails from the waters around IRELANDⁿ.
He’s a TRIATHLETE TITAN in the open WATER. He can swim many HECTARE in almost an ELECTRIC manner.
Yet, like a BRANCARDIER°—in—REWITHDRAWAL°, I shall CELEBRATE when I INCINERATE his INERTIA, at the HANDWRIT°—TABERNACLE.
The End.
Very clever!
Thanks! I was determined to weave a story with those provocative word pairs in the last paragraph. The Moby theme was a freebie. 🙂
Nice!
Oa
great stories for the array today!
I felt BANDWIDTH arose in my brain from a 2-solve I failed this year, but the search engine doesn’t support that feeling 🤔
NETHERWARD — DIABETICAL
Found DIABETIC early and after finding NETHERWARD, I tried putting the L on the end and it was accepted. I have never seen/used DIABETICAL before but I’ll take it. 🙂
Found INTER/INERTIA/INTERTIAL and BACTERIA/BACTERIAL but could not pair any of them.
No solution for me today. I really wanted BATHWATER to work, considering the recent PITCHING GRANDBABY solution.
🤭
I couldn’t make either WHEREWITHAL or BACITRACIN work in 2 words so I gave up.
OA
Bandwidth/Heretical
2 days in a row…unusual for me
WHIRLWIND-DIABETIC as well
I got hung up on reincarnate for a while but couldn’t make it work
Whirlwind Diabetic
Finally a fast finish 🙌
Whirlwind – Diabetic
BANDWIDTH HIERATICAL* (Collins)
BANDWIDTH HERACLITIC*
*OED but capitalized
HENCEWITH* HANDLEBAR (disgust at a certain type of facial hair, amen!)
*Obsolete, as in:
“Hencewith your flippant epilogue, that tries
To wipe the virtuous tears from British eyes…”
–Thomson
Correction: HIERATICAL above doesn’t need the asterisk.
Good word. I learned of its meaning today. ✔
I had spelled it wrong the first time. 🙂 Tell me Mark, how do you make that check sign in your comment?
Simon, I get it from the emoji section on my phone. On a desktop you can use an emoji site, with copy & paste, like from this one:
https://emojipedia.org/
You can also search for the Character Map applet on your PC and it will bring up just about any character you’d like. Select one and copy it, and then paste it into these comments (or anywhere else).
Got to be better but BEHINDWARD dialect or what LB doesn’t accept. Or BEHINDWARD (OED) dialectical or Marxist direction
And of course, BEHINDWARD DIALECTICIAN. Sleuths of what LB accepts
Handwrite(OED). Handwriter rebalance
I had withdrawer (OED and Merriam -Webster) with rebalance, but “withdrawer” not allowed by NYT, unfortunately. Found bandwidth-heretical later.
OA on my first try!
Never happened for me before and never thought it possible.
After long day travelling I relaxed with my puzzles but fell asleep with bandwidth drawn out on my phone. Woke up after nodding off and thought I’d do a simple three and get to bed….but heraldic was there waiting to solve it. I do think the brain continues puzzling when we are sleeping…..
Bandwith – heraldic…….took me ages to work this out!
Bandwidth – Heraldic….
Spent a lot of time this morning. Left it for a busy day and evening.
Just got back to it at 8:30 with a last wisp of optimism. Thank
goodness I gave it one last try!
BANDWIDTH / HERALDIC
Bandwidth heraldic. Bandwidth heretical. Got bandwidth first word of the day and quit on it too quickly. Off and on hours later spotted heraldic heretical . Got too many great words not to try a little more!
Bacterial law-hand hyphenated!
Tried ( prob too tired to see connections)barehand handlebar inebriate athletically incinerate bacterial waterland wetland bathwater water bath recalcinate handcart tabernacle Catawba handwrite BEHINDWARD barnacle wherewithal dialectian
Electrician bacterial carnitine barbarian beans bernician diabetic dietician herniate reincarnate . Not beans – bwana banana and more
Good lists.
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