NTKAH = THANK

DEGNU = NUDGE

MAREYC = CREAMY

DASILM = DISMAL

CARTOON ANSWER:

THNUCEDMA = UNMATCHED

Good Tuesday morning!  It’s overcast and windy today and my paper wasn’t delivered AGAIN so I’m off to a rough start this morning.  Thankfully I can rely on the internet for the puzzle so I had something to do while having my coffee.  Without further delay, here’s my take on our favorite game.  NUDGE and DISMAL took the longest to decipher this morning.  They weren’t overly difficult but they did slow me down for a minute.  Mr. Hoyt has been choosing some unique words recently and it sure is refreshing.  After solving all the words, I attempted the cartoon without writing down the clue letters.  The solution was 9 letters so I didn’t have much of a chance and gave up just about as fast as I started.  After writing down the letters, I noticed that U was the odd letter of the group and right before it was N.  UNMATCHED was my first guess and just like that the puzzle was finished.  I hope you have a terrific day and I’ll see you tomorrow.  😀🎾