Here there are Letter Boxed September 11, 2022 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:
RUHNQSIFTEKA
The answers are:
INFREQUENTTHANKS
Official, but this set of letters looks promising.
Not as promising as a couple of hours ago. S on the same side as the Q puts some limits on it, and S and N together eliminates dozens of Trans- words.
The F can also be problematic, with I on the same side, but there are some words like (RE) FASTEN and (RE) FRESHER (ER) and FRISK- (IER) (IEST) which may be useful. Also another new word (to me) TRIQUETRA.
Have tried in vain to find an Equestrian solution.
I attempted to go EQUESTRIAN myself only to fall off the horse.
🙂
I also wanted to make equestrian work but alas
Attaching zero significance to Massive Attack’s message (Be Thankful…).
Thanks for pointing me towards Massive Attack, Sota! I’d heard of them but never checked them out. Be Thankful for What You’ve Got sent me dancing across the kitchen, to the alarm of several cats. Good stuff!
Pleasure, Bernie. It is an adaptation of a mid-70s song by William DeVaughn which might also ring a bell (or an air-raid siren). You’re also, apparently, a cat person. Though I love, respect and have spent time living with cats, I’m more on the dog side of the equation. To me cats are impossible to fully domesticate; they, most likely, domesticate YOU instead.
Yes, they have me completely at their mercy, the herd of them.
I love dogs too, grew up with them, but at this point it would be unfair all ‘round to to try to insert one into the menagerie.
I’ll definitely check out DeVaughn. You haven’t led me astray yet!
FAQUIR—RETHINKS 14/2
Not a great theme, just trying to beat the official.
The Q should be interesting today for possible longer pairs.
I had FAQUIR RETHINKS as well, that could be an unusual rags-to-riches story.
‘Maybe that bed of nails is not so comfortable, after all’…
Good one, Sota21!
I almost pulled the trigger on Frequents Sharkskin, but only after Shiksa was rejected, which was frustrating and odd, inasmuch as Verklempt was in the official answer not so far back. Maybe Shiksa is considered derogatory.
In any case, Frequents led to Infrequent and thence to the official solution. Kind of a downbeat answer. The original sin and the primary cause of human misery…
Sums us all up brilliantly, BERNIE. BTW, I sincerely hope you excuse my addressing you on a first name basis, as I’m not clear whether you go by your actual name or a sobriquet -in which case it would only make sense using it in full (and you DEFINITELY don’t need to clear that up). 😉
I consider you a friend, Sota21! You are welcome to use my name in vain. It is in fact the (helpfully nongendered) name I go by, yet still a disguise of sorts, as this particular collection of atoms calling itself Bernie Horowitz is all but invisible online. Not entirely unGoogleable – that’s probably impossible for anyone nowadays – but at least waaay down in the results pages.
Since I have no social media presence outside this extremely safe forum, if I were ever to be subjected to an online bullying campaign I would probably never even know!
…what I get from my kids….
Ha! Official as well. Thought funkier or funkiest might work.
Spent a lot of time on FUNKSTERS
😄
FUTHARKS – SEQUIN 14/2
Futhark was an interesting word that I found, but failed to link it to sequin,
Futhark is a new one on me! Sounds like invective but isn’t. I may start using it as a nice clean substitute for various other F words!
Me too!
I love the thematic integrity of the official answer, but did not find it.
Instead:
FREQUENTS – SHIKRA (a small hawk–my kids taught me a lot about birds)
Shikra is an inspired find ! 😄
Like PG said, an inspired find, and a fine addition to my birdname list. Would that I had tried Shikra after Shiksa was rejected!
Same answer here!
official today
theme – teenage sons
I wanted tankini/s to work but nope just official.
Frequenter-rankish
FAQUIR – RETHINKS came quickly, but I was hoping to do something with QUINKS. Sadly, the puzzle disallowed SHARKFEST. What do these people have against National Geographic??
Official.
Some of you got quasi words without getting any quasi word.
FREQUENTS — SHARKSKIN
Me too! Strange combo but I came up with sharkskin first then saw frequents 😊
Frequent/thinktanks
Official. As usual, commenters’ answers are diverting. (Also, if you get past the “infrequent thanks” period, it can turn into “Thank you for all you taught me”. )
Official here. Leaving me pondering the emotional state of elation when, having solved the puzzle, then finding my answer to be common/mundane/expected. I LOVE all the weird words people found today. And Shiksa is a slur.
Indeed it is a disgusting slur and is not English – however:
The word shiksa is a valid scrabble word ; 1 short excerpt of WikWik.org (WikWik is an online database of words defined in the English, French, Spanish, Italian, …
Not sure why Shiksa should be considered all that derogatory. Although sometimes used pejoratively (mostly by Jewish mothers whose sons are dating outside the Tribe), it just means a gentile woman or girl, and doesn’t imply any defects in character. I don’t see why it would be any more offensive than Goyim or Goyische – or is that considered beyond the pale as well?
Philip Roth’s protagonist hyper-sexualized them (and everything else including tonight’s dinner), but it’s just one more of Portnoy’s many issues. Talk about character defects!
Also, there’s the fact that it’s used only by the original Outgroup against the Ingroup. That seems to matter.
It is not uncommon that words of originally good meaning go on to become euphemisms of sorts with pejorative implications. I can think of a similar instance in Greek (‘παστρικιά’, if Google can get you anywhere e.g. https://el.glosbe.com/el/en/%CF%80%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C%CF%82).
So, would that be the Greek equivalent of an English yob’s “bit of crumpet”?
Kind of, though it would sound rather dated -likely to still be used by, say, an elderly villager.
The Rhyme of the Ancient Villager.