Letter Boxed

12/17

SWORDFISH - HAMPER


  D - M - E
P - - - - - O
F - - - - - I
W - - - - - H
  A - R - S

12/18

MULIE - EXTRAVAGANT

…kind of got this one brute force, MULIE was not previously in my vocabulary.

  X - N - R
G - - - - - A
U - - - - - M
T - - - - - I
  E - L - V

Actually just figured out another option while messing around:

12/18

TRIUMVIRATE - EXULTING

Used MULTILINE instead of MULIE (which I’d never heard before)

12/19

Frolic-chutzpah

Almost the same, PROLIFIC was first word. Easy for me since I’m Jewish.

12/20

UNGRACIOUS - STADIUM

  R - I - N
G - - - - - M
O - - - - - S
A - - - - - C
  D - T - U

This one was pretty easy to find a lot of workable word options, so I suspect there is a better answer.

Dramatic-contiguous

GRADATIONS SUMAC

12/22

EXPEDIENT - TUMBLING

  N - X - B
E - - - - - D
G - - - - - M
L - - - - - T
  P - I - U

12/26

POLONIUM MADRICH (The latter is a Hebrew term for a counselor - we used the term on our high school Israel trip)

12/27

IMPACTOR - READABLE

  L - A - M
P - - - - - E
B - - - - - T
O - - - - - D
  C - R - I
12/29

Calmed-driveways

Summary

EXCLAIMED - DOUGH

  U - L - X
M - - - - - D
H - - - - - G
O - - - - - A
  I - E - C

Makes me think of Homer Simpson

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1/8

MARVELED DIGESTIBLE

Also got their solution yesterday

Been a while since I solved one of these in two - but made pretty quick work of today’s puzzle.

1/9

FLOUTING - GRAPH

  P - U - I
H - - - - - A
F - - - - - L
G - - - - - N
  O - R - T

I got the same two words. NYT puzzles are too easy today. Snow days need harder puzzles! :joy:

Yep, easy one

No snow in NYC today…