Here are the Letter Boxed October 02, 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:
PRCYANLKHSIO
The answers are:
CYCLOPSSHARKSKIN
PINKS-SCHOLARLY
Unnecessary “L” in plinks-scholarly
I had just read an article about a concert with 50 pianos.
Pinks-Scholarly here as well. Alicia Moore getting her Master’s!
Wow, how did they get all the pianos together?
In the NYT:
50 Pianos Rumble With the Sound of ‘11,000 Strings’
At the Park Avenue Armory
Apparently the tuning is a bear!
Yes! PINKS SCHOLARLY after messing with ASIRINS CHAINLINK SLINKILY and CHOKRAS
Acarophy yonks
Correction
Acarophily yonks
Damn the spell checker
CARHOPS—SLINKY
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POLYCLINICS ⇄ SHARKSHIP°
SHARKSHIP° ⇄ POLYCLINICS
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° OED
CARHOPS SLINKY here too.
*CHAPLAINRY-YOKS
*CHAPLAINRY good in OED
CHINKAPINS-SLORY*
*SLORY good in OED
*HAIRLOCKS-SNIPY*
*HAIRLOCKS good in Scrabble US (TWL), Wiktionary
*SNIPY good in OED
HALCYONS-SPIRK*
*SPIRK good in OED
Phonics sarkily
Phonics Skylark…
Sure, the melody is nice, but can you please annunciate?! Not all of us can speak bird you know.
* enunciate (oops)
Mine too 🙂
PARAPSYCHIC – CLONK
Thing that goes bump in the night.
SCHOLARSHIP-PINKY
study of the 5th digit
I was looking for a -SHIP word. But, failed.
Same
Scholarship – pinky as well
CYCLOPS – SHARKSKIN
When he saw the price tag, he didn’t bat an eye.
😉
You thematic wizards!
LARKS SYPHONIC
PHONICS-SKYLARK
SKYLARKS — SYPHONIC
Another quick one.
Same though the SKY part wasn’t even needed. And, SYPHONIC, I couldn’t define that if my life depended on it
Cyclonic. Carhops
POLYCHRONIC-CASK (15/2)
Same. Also polyphonic + carks or chakra
SKYCAP–PAROCHIAL
SCOPOPHILIACS–SPARKY
Yonks-Scholarship
Cyclops sharkskin couple of minutes
Same, but many more minutes!
✔️
Larks-Syphonic
OA. But was surprised to find out it was the OA since it felt clumsy. Thought there’d be something better than “Sharkskin” for the second word
AIRLOCKS SYPHON
Me2
Prophetic – Chainlink but I was left with an “S” because Chainlinks wasn’t accepted. I thought I solved but I didn’t.
Me too Alaia! I was mad that Chainlinks wasn’t accepted so had to give up on the singular…
But ended up with Pinks Scholarly. Sometimes you have to wipe out the board and start again…
Phonics Skylark
Pilcorns Shakily
Mad phonics-sparkily* wasn’t accepted. Sparkily is in most dictionaries.
PSYCHROPHILIC CHINKARA
Also NIKAHS SPIROCYCLIC*
*MW
Was excited about PASHALIKS and PANCHINKO but couldn’t match them.
Scholarship pinky
One can go to town with PHILIAS today:
PYROPHILIAC* CONKS
KYPHOPHILIA* ACORNS
*love of stooping!
Last one—I promise…
YORK KINOPHILIACS*
*per google ‘On social media, the term “kinophile” (and by extension “kinophiliac”) is sometimes used by certain film fans to distinguish themselves from casual viewers or even general “cinephiles”.’
Coming soon to an updated Webster’s College Dictionary near you! (Altho the latest update took 20 years I’m told.)
Kinships scholarly
Yonks scholarship
Pinks scholarly
PHONICS-SKYLARK
larks-syphonic
Shopaholics snorky(slang for fashionable, well dressed)
Parapsychic Clonky
Sorry I lied… one more:
ALPHORNS SKIASCOPY
Parapsychic clonk