GADEA – ADAGE

IRCIE – ICIER

LNUTEN – TUNNEL

TERXOP – EXPORT

CARTOON ANSWER : WITH SO MUCH DENTAL WORK NEEDED, THEY JOKED ABOUT HAVING AN ORTHODONTIST- – –

AEIERTNNOR – – – ON RETAINER

Good morning, Everyone! THE DENTIST!
BUCCAL UP, Folks…This Could Be A Bumpy Ride!
🎶” Hit the road, PLAQUE, and don’t you come back no more, no more, no more, no more…Hit the road PLAQUE, and don’t you come back no more….”🎶
Cheap SHOT? Sorry, best I could do. I know, I know, CHEW were probably EXPORTing more, but it’s all I got! It’s not that easy coming up with these puns day after day, same old GRIND. So, I try to live by these ADAGEs: PICK yourself up, PULL OUT all the stops, and BRACE yourself for the worst, CUSP life’s not always fulFILLING! The TOOTH hurts! But, BOTTOM line, ORAL really want to do is make you SMILE, so let’s give it a SHOT, and get on with our puzzle! Our words: Was it just me, or was ICIER a tad unNERVEing? I’m thinking, this MESIAL little word is a PAIN! I was having breakfast with my eX, RAY, and I had to ask him for help! (We’ve stayed friends, HELIUM always be my friend). The rest of the words were a SNAP. Our cartoon: AHH..the Orthodontist! Great guy, right? He makes your kids look good, and you in turn put his through college! Quid pro quo. AHH, how ’bout Quid pro…NO? Talk about putting your money where your MOUTH is! We become like inDENTUREd servants, right? You know the DRILL, month after month, pay, pay, pay, unTUNNEL we become MOLAR opposites! He gets richer, we feel the IMPACT! Down right ENAMEL cruelty! Listen, I don’t mean to sound cruel, but the PROPHYs in the pudding! Just look at the cartoon…MAN,DIBLE! Ok, ok, enough of my CARIESing on! I’m BANDying BACK and forth so much, I’m driving myself to EXTRACTION! Let’s just SEW this up. Jeff shows us both kids wearing RETAINERS. Dave tells us the parents joked about….”another month”, and having the DENTIST “well paid”, and …”ON RETAINER”! Good job, Guys, you’ve both IMPLANTED the clues in our minds today! ACUTE puzzle, ain’t it the TOOTH, Folks? Oh, eye candy? On the bill, there’s the SWEETest little TOOTH.
So….I’ll tell you something…While this was PUN while it lasted, today wasn’t easy. Not the puzzle, that was a SPIT in the bucket, I didn’t feel a thing! But trying to FORM conRINSEing puns about DENTAL work? MAMELON other time…Today….was like PULLING TEETH!
(PS: To our Orthodontists out there: Please know this was all TONGUE in CHEEK, I know you got FILLINGS too).
🎶”GUM together, right now, over me…”🎶

Have a great day, Everyone…..And may the FLOSS be with you…😷 🙋🏻

HHCNU – HUNCH

HRTTU – TRUTH

ENGLED- LEGEND

AINAGU – IGUANA

CARTOON ANSWER:  HOW DO THEY SAY HELLO IN THE ALPS?

HHTRHEEIG  – – –  “HIGH” THERE

Bonjour, Everyone!  THE ALPS!   STEP right UP…!!

🎶”YODEL-AY-HEE-HOO…”🎶…That’s it, just a simple little YODEL this morning. Set the mood….I mean, we all know Yodeling is a cry for ALP, right? And that’s where we are today, HIGH up THERE in the ALPS! IGUANA say something right from the start…TRUTH be told, I’m no fan of mountain climbing. Between the Vertigo, No desire to go…(and the shoes), it’s just not something I’ve EVEREST SPIREd to. BUTTE, hey, that’s just my oPINion, (Although I have a HUNCH some of you out there may share my feelings). Don’t get me wrong. I like the Mountains: the beauty, the majesty, the whole LEGEND..(wait for it..) ARY aspect of them…BUTTE again, it’s just my ALTITUDE that if God wanted me to CLIMB mountains, He’d have COMPASSated in another way. You know, made me a little BOULDER. And KNOT so CRESTless, and a lot less ROUGH around the EDGES! HA…! ARETE, let’s not BELAY this any longer…Our puzzle: No new words today, IGUANA believe you remember CEILING them before. ASCENTially, easy enough, right? Our cartoon: Two couples, meeting and “Greeting”, devil may CAIRN, at the top of the French Alps. (I say “French” Alps, because one guy’s sPEAKing French). Little clues…”view from ‘here’..”, “say hello”…So, STEEPing with the theme…”HIGH” THERE! Another PUNctuation solve! CHIMNEY! We’ve seen a lot of these lately, right? GRANITE, no JUGgernaut here, but CHALK it UP to the Jumble boys knowing we like the little HOOK! Ok, the eye candy. Today I’m going with what I don’t SCREE. Where’s the French guys TREKking pole? WATERs he kidding? The CRUX of the matter is how’d he SCALE the mountain without one? He really BETA get a GRIP on things!
Ok, Folks, I’ve CRAGged this out long enough today. To SUMMIT UP, I’ll say…Let’s KNOT SLACK off…Let’s set our SIGHTS a little HIGHER…
And always, always…ROCK ON! Enjoy your day! ⛰⛏ 🙋🏻