Here there are Letter Boxed October 08, 2023 Answers from New York Times Games. Our solutions and answers are 100% valid and accurate. We suggest to try and solve the game by your own before using the help of our website.
Sides of this Letter Box are:
TREHIPVSZOBA
The answers are:
BISHOPPRIVATIZE
(Sorry for the repost– I had missed the ostriches squeal, and wanted to include them.)
words from October 6 & 7
THE EQUATORIAL ICEHOUSE
As petroleum treacle on a coral shoal
Makes a lacquer quilt for a sea grown old,
Aphrodisiac for a curse grown bold;
As paranoid scorn fills a Pharaoh’s eye,
Come shouts and calques, and lie after lie,
As the scorpions hiss, and the condors cry.
Theatrical words, though once inspired,
Now as sharpened shrapnel, ill-acquired,
Trash precious rights, all but expired.
Adolescence shadowed, void of trust,
Clichés of human greed and lust,
Condoned and treacherous, no more just.
An ostrich squeal, stoic neck stretched high,
A cacophonous choir, a fatal sigh,
A rhetorical echo: “The end is nigh.”
But look past the traitor’s evil leer;
See the docile seals, the sequoias’ fear;
Look close. (It’s real, the crocodile’s tear.)
So before condolence to those living still,
Take a cathartic pause from the stormy Hill;
Write a codicil to the weather’s will.
A Socratic pause beneath a quarter moon,
Where on an Easter Island wind-swept dune
Turtles triangulate an orthic rune.
And polar angels build an elegy,
An equatorial chapel, floating free–
Icehouse of hope on the warming sea.
Oct 6 words: aphrodisiac, paranoid, scorn, Pharoah, scorpions, condors, sharpened, shrapnel, adolescence, condoned, docile, crocodile, condolences, codicil, pause, polar, chapel
Oct 7 words: treacle*, coral, shoal, lacquer, quilt, curse*, theatrical, squeal, calques, shout*, acquire, trust*, clichés, treacherous, ostrich, choir, rhetorical, echo, traitor*, stoic, seal, sequoia, tear, cathartic*, Socratic, quarter, turtle*, orthic, icehouse, equatorial, icehouse
*word uses letters adjacent
Epic !
Kudos Jill.
Second that!
Missed this yesterday, so glad to find it twice!
I truly enjoy how you reshape the found words into something so much more. It is a pleasure every time. Thank you!!
Chilling, Jill. These are trying times indeed.
McCarthy DOES look like an ostrich, doesn’t he… Never noticed before, thanks for pointing it out!
Epic, indeed–excellent!
These always brighten my day!
I’m 62, and I still wanna grow up to be you, Jill.
Thanks everyone. Sometimes the words you all find really do shape a way to reckon with the moment. 🌘🐢
OA.
OA for me as well; I must confess.
OA.
Behaviorist-topaz.
Same here.
BEHAVIORS – SPRITZ
Ditto…
Me too. Messed with VAPORIZES and EVAPORATORS for ages.
Also spent time with above and VIBRATORS until seeing the OA.
Behaviors-Spritz as well.
Ditto
BEHAVIORS-SPRITZ what a doozy for me
Found your name in yesterday’s array, Cirque! Cool!
VIBRAHARP—POSITIVIZE
VIBRAHARP—PRIORITIZES
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Found the OA instantly and called it good. Surprised by the number and quality of alternatives already reported! I’ll check back in for more.
OA.
Super inefficient today, but I’ll take the win: BRAVA – APOTHEOSIZE
Impressive!
And thank you for the assist on spellingbee BRAVA took me over the top and was feeling very stuck
OA for me…
OA… worked back BISHOP after finding PRIVATIZE
Same, found PRIVATIZE first
BEHAVIORIST TOPAZ. Pretty quickly today! Was surprised TOPAZES was also accepted.
behaviorist – topaz
OA here. Love all the variety in answers.
Behaviorist Topaz
OA today
OA. Started with Privatize(s) and searched forever for a pair. Spent time on SPRITZES (until realizing it was just a less efficient PRIVATIZES again 🤦♂️) as well as TOPAZ(ES), EVAPORATORS, and VIBRATORS, so happy to see you all found pairs for some of them.
When I went back to PRIVATIZES I was just plugging in the leftovers with trial and error, and was at first surprised when BISHOP worked, because I was reading it as BI-SHOP in my mind! 🤣 Took a second for it to click and then realized it must be the OA.
All’s well that ends, I suppose. 😉
Not PC but: Behaviorists – Spaz