TNEETX = EXTENT

RUBUNA= AUBURN

FANELI = FINALE

MATTOO = TOMATO

GONIRI = ORIGIN

SULVIA = VISUAL

CARTOON ANSWER:

HORSES AT THE FARM WERE HAPPY AND GOT ALONG WELL, THANKS IN PART TO IT BEING A :

EENABNOLETMTORNVS = STABLE ENVIRONMENT

Mike, This one’s for you! 🍸

Good morning, everyone! 📚 Happy World Book Day! 📚

Sorry this is a little late, did Church first; the whole time thinking: I’m SADDLEd with this responsibility!  LOL.  Great Sunday puzzle. Glanced at it all with UnBRIDLED enthusiasm, saw perhaps a tiny BIT of a challenge, but there’ll be no NEIGHsayers amongst us! And…they’re OFF…

EXTENT, check. AUBURN, check. FINALE, check. MATTOO, (Matt, who? is in my head), but then, check. (But, it’s been like what? 20 something years now, and I still can’t look at Potato or Tomato, without Dan Quayle popping into my head…I digress). ORIGIN – Blink- Ironing? Only 1 N, Ironic, No C;  Ah, ORIGIN, check. And, lastly, VISUAL..pause. Wrote it down, check.  We’re in the Homestretch.  The Answer: A lot of letters here. Wrote them all down, all the while telling myself, ‘Don’t even think Horse…’.Ok, I’m seeing horses and stables…BA-BOOM. STABLE, and then I HERD the phrase in my head. Saw the V, and knew I was on the right TRACK. 11 letter word! Not all that 🎶 Easy Like Sunday Morning 🎶  For those of us without the color advantage: Green grass, brown horse.  And the name RUFF FARMS? I have no idea, maybe someone can BALE me out?

So, that’s all she RODE. Enjoy your Sunday, and, let’s Make America Smart again..Take a book to lunch! Until tomorrow. 🐴 🙋🏻