YUJIC = JUICY

NEPDU = UPEND

BEBOWL = WOBBLE

TAGRYE = GYRATE

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE BARBER WHO CUT THE BEATLES HAIR IN 1963 DID A —

JUPNOBBGA = BANG-UP JOB

Happy Wednesday morning everyone!  We’re at the middle of the week and the puzzles are getting progressively harder, so let’s break this one down and see what we had today.  UPEND didn’t come at first glance, but as soon as I formed UP, the rest fell right into place.  As I wrote it down, I thought for sure it was going to be the stumper of the day.  WOBBLE was a piece of cake and then I ran into a major roadblock with GYRATE.  For the first couple of minutes I tried to figure it out by staring it and tried making different letter combinations in my head but nothing seemed to work.  As my frustration grew, I decided that it was time to blow the dust off my trusty notepad and put it to good use.  On my twelfth attempt of self-jumbling the letters, I had formed RATEGY and that’s when I finally saw the solution.  I don’t recall having this much trouble with a single word in such a long time and it was great to finally feel a challenge once again.  Moving along to the cartoon, Jeff brought us into a barbershop where the Beatle’s are getting a trim.  The answer came to mind immediately and I wrote out the letters just to check myself.  Sure enough it all matched up and another wonderful puzzle was complete.  I hope you had an easier time than I did and I’ll see you tomorrow.  😀