KSADE = ASKED

UHISS = SUSHI

CODEKT = DOCKET

THACYT = CHATTY

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE LOCKSMITH HAD GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE, WHICH HE CONSIDERED TO BE A —

SKESUSOCECTY = KEY TO SUCCESS

Good Wednesday morning everyone!  ASKED was the only word to give some pause today, but with a little thinking and a dash of luck, it came after a minute or so.  Moving along, I thought CHATTY was “catchy” at first but that extra C was nowhere to be found.  With all of the clue words completed, it was on to the cartoon.  A quick read of the sentence and dialogue gave me all I needed to solve the puzzle and a check of the clue letters confirmed my answer.  The letter layout had the words well hidden, so if you weren’t able to solve it blindly, you may have struggled a bit.  The cartoon was excellent and featured a locksmith explaining to an employee the value of customer service while pointing to a keyhole.  A very subtle clue that I overlooked until I studied the cartoon for a few minutes.  Another great clue was the woman in the background asking another employee to make her a key.  I really enjoyed her stretched out pinky finger and trendy glasses!  A few weeks ago, I upgraded my front door lock to a keyless entry system where you can unlock the door by entering a code manually on the keypad or if my phone is in my pocket, the Bluetooth function will automatically unlock it.  No more worries about the kids losing their key or hiding a spare one under the doormat.  Enjoy your final day of May for the year and I’ll see you tomorrow!  😀 🔑 

TYRPA = PARTY

SOPIE = POISE

PLIRPE = RIPPLE

TCLEKO = LOCKET

CARTOON ANSWER:

WHEN EDMUND HILLARY AND TENZING NORGAY REACHED EVEREST’S PEAK, IT WAS A —

TYOSRPOT = TOP STORY

Good morning everyone and happy Tuesday!  I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend and are well rested and ready for some Jumble fun.  No problem with any of the words today as they all came instantly into view and I trekked over to the cartoon within seconds.  After reading the dialogue and sentence, TOP STORY was my guess for the final solution and I wrote out the clue letters to see if my hunch was correct.  Sure enough, TOP was all together at the end of the letter layout leaving STORY for the finish.  The cartoon outshined the anagrams this morning, with Jeff giving us a quaint English scene of what appears to be a husband and wife having a cup of tea while looking over the morning newspaper.  Doing some research on the timeline of the Everest Expedition, Hillary and Norgay reached the summit on Friday May 29, 1953 and news of their success reached London just in time for Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation on June 2nd.  A well drawn portrait of the Queen hangs in the background of the cartoon adding to the historical accurateness of the event!  Jeff and David are always on top of their game, giving us not only a fun puzzle but a mini history lesson all wrapped into one.  Enjoy your Tuesday and I’ll see you tomorrow!  😀

XBREO = BOXER

PYMET = EMPTY

CLAPAA = ALPACA

COSTEK = SOCKET

CARTOON ANSWER:  WE CAN NEVER TRULY COMPENSATE THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY, BUT WE CAN ..

EREPYPACST = PAY RESPECT

🇺🇸   “I SAVED A PLACE FOR YOU HERE…” 💔  🇺🇸

🇺🇸     GOD BLESS AMERICA, LAND THAT I LOVE…   🇺🇸

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NITUGO = OUTING

INIBIK = BIKINI

RAFINU = UNFAIR

GEHONU = ENOUGH

WHICTT = TWITCH

ANNNCO = CANNON

CARTOON ANSWER:     WITH SUCH A BIG LEAD GOING INTO THE FINAL LAP AT THE  INDY 500, HE WAS….

OTKIIARNOTWTCN = ON TRACK TO WIN IT

Mike, This one’s for you! 🏁 🥛

🏁🏎 Good morning. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN START YOUR ENGINES… 🏁🏎

Welcome to the Jumble coverage of the Indy 500! We got what we were waiting for, a true ‘Day-themed’ puzzle! Today, we bring the Indy into its 2nd Century, with the 101st running of this iconic race.  200 laps, 500 miles, “Kiss The Bricks”, “Drink The Milk”, we got it all! You already saw all the answers, so let’s take a moment, and talk about the race. Me first.  This pretty much sums up what I know about the Indy:  HELIO CASTRONEVES! HE-LI-O.  Ok, that’s all I got!  LOL. No, seriously, talk about “Start your Engines”, “Kiss the Bricks”, “Happy Hour”, and “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing”…. HELIO! (Listen, y’day we gave Mike his comic books, today I’m taking my HELIO)!   Hopefully today, he’ll win it for the 4th time. Ok, enough, your turn. Scott Dixon’s in pole position, the winner gets the Borg-Warner Trophy, and it might rain in Indiana. (Feel free to add any other personal Indy thoughts in your post)!  LOL…Oh yes, the puzzle…I found the compilation of today’s words a RUNaWAY hit! The scrambles were fantastic! UNFAIR was a little hard to look at, am I right? Same with ENOUGH? But everyday words, easy ENOUGH!  The solve.  A little bit of a “Hmm” here. I think we all look for “the” or “and” when we see that 3 letter box. HA! Not today. The key to today’s solve was the cartoon pic. The track. Knowing we had the  necessary letters, after filling in the only 5 letter word, the rest was a WIN. “No one going to catch him”…”He’s the champ” = the winner. And now, the cartoon itself. Jeff, once again, Kudos! So much detail! The Scoring Pylon, is filled with the teeniest tiniest numbers. How does he do it? (I can’t help thinking he’d be great at applying mascara)!  LOL. The blimp! “PLAY JUMBLE”, emblazoned on the peach colored aerial advertising on the banner towing plane! The tiny multi colored cars!…The woman…The woman, (daily Jumblists, can you guess)?!! LOL… So, I should wrap this up, huh? Talk about MOTOR mouth! Just one more thing, if I may?  …19th pole position, Car 3, Team Penske. HELIO.  Can’t you just see that face framed in the Winner’s Wreath! (Sorry, I’m just so DRIVEN to disTRACTION)!

Wishing us all a great Sunday, INDYed! ..See you at the finish line! 🏁🏆  🥛🙋🏻

BLACE = CABLE

RAWEY = WEARY

GREDDE = DREDGE

PLAWOL = WALLOP

CARTOON ANSWER:

WHEN THE CARTOONISTS SKETCHED PEOPLE IN THE COMIC SHOP, THEY —

CAEWRDRDWO = DREW A CROWD

Good Saturday morning and I hope your long weekend is off to a fantastic start!!!  DREDGE was the most difficult word for me today.  No matter how many times I looked at it, all I saw was “degree”.  A few minutes of self-jumbling did the trick and I moved right along to my favorite part, the cartoon!  I was SHOCKED when I saw that the setting was a comic shop, and what a delightful surprise it was!  There’s no better place to visit on a Wednesday morning when new books hit the stands and you get the next installment of a wonderful story.  With top notch art and a weaving tale of suspense and intrigue, what’s not to love about comics!  SKETCHED was the key word in the sentence and looking at my clue letters, I found “draw” first.  CROWD came next leaving me an E.  With a quick switcheroo (yes it’s a word!) of the A in draw to an E, I had the solve and could finally admire what has become my favorite cartoon to date.  In a unique twist, Jeff drew himself being the sitter while his likeness along with his beloved Wilco t-shirt where transformed into a cherished keepsake.  Oh what I wouldn’t do to be featured in one of his cartoons!  I’ll have to wait until the cartoon is published online so I can zoom in and gobble up all the delectable details of the comics in the background — the newspaper version just doesn’t do this piece justice!  Count on a close up sometime mid-morning, and until then, enjoy the start of summer and I’ll see you tomorrow!  😉

TIDOT = DITTO

ATING = GIANT

SREDYS = DRESSY

DROVEN = VENDOR

CARTOON ANSWER:

ONCE HER CAR WAS REPAIRED, SHE SAID THIS IN REGARDS TO THE DAMAGE —

DIOGNTDESDOR = GOOD “RID-DENTS”

Good morning everyone and happy Friday!  I was bored yesterday so I took the opportunity to spruce up the website a bit and I hope you like what you see.  I also made a change to the comments section so you no longer need to enter your name and email to leave your thoughts.  Hopefully this will encourage you to post what you liked or maybe disliked about the puzzle.  With all that out of the way, here’s how I solved today’s game.  All of the clue words came into view quickly and I didn’t stumble at all which was a nice break after having some difficulty yesterday.  With all of the clue words solved, I cruised on to the cartoon portion.  Noticing that part of the solution had quotes, I took no chances and wrote out all of the clue letters before reading the sentence and dialogue.  Repaired and damaged were the two words that stuck out like a sore thumb so I had a feeling that they would somehow be included in the answer.  The letter layout was pretty nifty in that it didn’t give anything away.  For some reason, GOOD was the first word I found and it was 4-letters so I wrote it down and crossed out the letters.  DENTS came next and RID was right there to complete the puzzle giving us a funky play on words and an overall delightful Jumble finish.  Jeff did a great job on the cartoon, especially with all of the little dents on the car in the background.  That same car had three cracks on the windshield which was also a nice touch and I couldn’t help but notice that the front grill looks like an eye!  Have a great long holiday weekend and I’ll see you tomorrow.  😀

EMACO = CAMEO

NDORF = FROND

YEGRES = GEYSER

TCWISH = SWITCH

CARTOON ANSWER:

AEOFRNGEYESWT = WASTE OF ENERGY

Happy Thursday folks!  Mr. Hoyt really challenged us this morning by picking some obscure clue words to keep us on our toes.  FROND and GEYSER were the two doozies that gave me the most difficulty which caused me to break out my notepad and work them out.  CAMEO came into view after a few seconds of thinking about it, leaving SWITCH to be an instant solve.  With all of the clue words complete, I made my way to the cartoon portion of the program.  Reading the cartoon dialogue and sentence, I figured the final solution would be a play on the conversion of garbage to energy.  Starting with the 2-letter word, OF was my first choice and it was neatly spelled out in the clue letter layout.  I paused a moment to ponder whether David would make it that easy to spot and ultimately chose to go with my gut instinct and fill it in.  ENERGY came into view surprisingly fast leaving WASTE right there for the finish.  Looking for details in the cartoon, I remembered back to when Mr. Knurek last drew a landfill. He put an alien head in amongst the garbage but it was nowhere to be found this time around.  The only fun detail I found was the young child that was looking down at his feet.  He appears to have Crocs on (with socks too — a fashion faux pas) and his feet must have been filthy after mucking around in all that rubbish!  Enjoy your Thursday and I’ll see you tomorrow.  😀

FONTE = OFTEN

HALAP = ALPHA

LGGGIE = GIGGLE

CHUPIC = HICCUP

THE RIVALRY BETWEEN THE WEATHER FORECASTERS WAS —

TENAPIGHU = HEATING UP

Good Wednesday morning everyone!  OFTEN tripped me up right from the get-go this morning so I breezed through the next three words and came back to think about it for a minute.  As soon as I started making words that start with O, the answer came to me and I jotted it down.  With all of the clue words complete, it was on to the cartoon.  After reading the dialogue and sentence as well as noticing the high temperatures on the map, I had a pretty good idea what the answer was going to be.  Writing out the clue letters, I quickly crossed out HEATING which left UP for the finish and confirming my original guess.  The letter layout of the final solution was great with “TEN” and “PIG” spelled out to try and get your mind going in another direction.  With Jeff giving us two clues as to who the meteorologists were in the cartoon  (the map of Michigan and 7 on the camera), I surfed over to the WXYZ Detroit website to take a peek at the staff.  The female looks like Hally Vogel, but I was unable to identify the male subject as he appears to be older in Jeff’s cartoon and all of the meteorologists on the website look middle aged.  Perhaps the male retired from the station because he couldn’t get along with her in real life like the cartoon depicts!  Have a great day and I’ll see you tomorrow.  😀

NIHKT = THINK

EOMSO = MOOSE

OTNINO = NOTION

TREWET = WETTER

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE TRUMPET PLAYER WITH THE BIG EGO WOULD OFTEN —

THNOOOONWTR = TOOT (HIS) OWN HORN

Good morning and happy Tuesday!  Another day, another Jumble so let’s get straight to work.  The first two words were no problem at all as I saw them instantly.  NOTION was, in my opinion, the most difficult anagram to decipher of the bunch.  So much so that I skipped it, solved WETTER and the cartoon and had to patch it together by backing into it.  The gentleman in the cartoon sure does have a braggadocious look and Jeff nailed it perfectly.  Mr. Knurek also wrote POi on the drum for a reason, but being musically challenged, I couldn’t figure it out.  Poi is a Hawaiian food so that couldn’t be it so my only other guess is that it’s a band he’s familiar with.  Fill us in if you can solve the riddle and get your gold star for the day!  I’ll see you tomorrow.  😀 🥁

PROEA = OPERA

DESYE = SEEDY

RILAPS = SPIRAL

SUREVS = VERSUS

CARTOON ANSWER:

HE WAS LATE FOR THE EXORCISM BECAUSE HIS CAR HAD BEEN —

OESEDSPRESS = REPOSSESSED

Good Monday morning my friends and welcome back to another week of Jumble fun!  OPERA gave me some pause right out of the gate, but we’ve seen it before and it came after a few extra seconds.  The rest of the words came instantly and I was at the cartoon in a flash.  Reading the cartoon dialogue and sentence, I had the answer immediately and didn’t bother writing out the clue letters.  Filling in the boxes, I ended up one letter short so I figured that I spelled it incorrectly.  Going back and writing out the clue letters, I did indeed miss that extra S and it was a quick fix but a delay nonetheless.  Overall an easy solve for a Monday with a great answer layout and fun cartoon of The Exorcist movie.  Did you find any details in Jeff’s drawing that made your head spin?  Nothing caught my eye, so let me know if you did.  Have a great Monday and I’ll see you tomorrow!

SOVHEO = HOOVES

NAIYVT = VANITY

DOYIDT = ODDITY

NIWMON = MINNOW

ELAGIO = GOALIE

BUSTIM = SUBMIT

CARTOON ANSWER:  DID HIS WIFE THINK HE’D BE ABLE TO REACH THE GREEN MORE THAN 300 YARDS AWAY?

HOOANYOTNNGOLSBT  =  NO…NOT BY A LONG SHOT

Have a wonderful Sunday, and see you bright and early Monday morning.

KERYP = PERKY

SRIVO = VISOR

YNERDT = TRENDY

LUBDOE = DOUBLE

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE COLLEGE TENNIS STAR PLANNED TO JOIN THE ARMY AND WAS —

PERVSOTREDOU = PROUD TO SERVE

Have a super Saturday everyone!!!

RAHHS = HARSH

KARDN = DRANK

AHOBIP= PHOBIA

CEBMEO = BECOME

CARTOON ANSWER:  THE PERSON IN CHARGE OF THE MOUNT RUSHMORE SCULPTURES WAS THE =

HHDNHOACOE = HEAD HONCHO

Good morning, Mike, good morning, Everyone.

Mike, This one’s for you! ⚾️💤💤

TGIF! Today we’re in the Black Hills of South Dakota, visiting Mount Rushmore. You know, the only ROCK group, with four men who don’t sing! If there’s any connection between today’s date and today’s puzzle, may the historians amongst us please step forward. Personally I don’t know much about it, except that it’s huge, it’s iconic, it’s “America”. Kind  of like our Jumble. So, let’s get to it.  Nothing here today of any great SCALE.  No word in particular that could CHIP away at our thoughts.  Easy, breezy, good jumbling of everyday words. The answer: Really a give away, with those big heads looming large in the cartoons background. For those of us who write the letters down to solve, we saw the answer words as we wrote. For those of us who wing it, easy guess. Why Lincoln’s portrayed with the same mustache as the guy holding the specs…? Imitation the sincerest form of flattery? Talk about CHIPping away… Look where it got him…You know this undoing is putting them way over budget! Even back then! Jeff gave us a lot of little stone masons in the background; the two tiny ones atop Roosevelt’s head, HILLarious! All in all, an over the top puzzle to end the week.

Hoping Everone has a great day, and let’s not take anything for GRANITE! 🙋🏻

CUONE = OUNCE

YUPPP = PUPPY

OMTTSU = UTMOST

RIGLEB = GERBIL

CARTOON ANSWER:

IN THE 1880’S, FARMS IN THE MIDWEST WERE —

NCPPPUOGRI = CROPPING UP

Good Thursday morning everyone!  UTMOST and GERBIL were my downfall today as they both took quite a long time to decipher.  I’m talking minutes here which caught me by surprise and also got me very frustrated.  Just when I solved UTMOST, I got stumped on GERBIL and labored to solve it.  In the end, I was victorious and moved along to the cartoon with hopes of an instant solve.  Reading the dialogue and sentence as well as writing out my clue letters, I first thought POPPING UP would be the answer but there weren’t enough P’s.  A quick change from POP to CROP was all it took for the solve which ended another great Jumble puzzle!  The farm scene was well drawn and I took a few minutes after all was said and done to soak it in.  A smile quickly returned to my face and now I’m ready to conquer the day.  Be well and I’ll see you tomorrow.  😀