AUGGE = GAUGE

LAASI = ALIAS

TRONHW = THROWN

CLASIO = SOCIAL

CARTOON ANSWER:

AUGALSTHNSOI = TOUGH AS NAILS

Good morning and happy Wednesday!  Before attempting to solve the puzzle, I like to check the visitor count to the website to get a sense of puzzle difficulty.  I was excited to see triple the amount of visitors as usual!  I started the game and the only clue word to give me a hiccup was SOCIAL.  The cartoon answer was what gave me all the trouble!  After reading the dialogue between the two men, I started searching for a word that had to do with a father/son relationship.  I thought sons at first, but it had to be five letters.  After a couple minutes of no luck I moved on to the two letter word.  It was a tough one as well as all the usual suspects were there (IN ON NO SO TO AS AT).  I just couldn’t find a word to put me on my way to finishing!  I did a quick scramble of the letters on my notepad and I saw nail.  I reasoned AS and TOUGH out of the remaining letters and had the S left over to make nail plural.  Did you solve it a different way?  Feel free to leave a comment and I’ll see you tomorrow!  😀