CARKO = CROAK

TXSYI = SIXTY

NKREEL = KERNEL

HARRET = RATHER

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE STONE WALL WOULD EVENTUALLY GET FINISHED, IN SPITE OF THE – – –

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CHITK –THICK

UNOWD – WOUND

MRAYWL – WARMLY

VABHEE – BEHAVE

CARTOON ANSWER:

WHEN THE FARMER’S BALER MALFUNCTIONED, THINGS – – –

THIWNWRYEAE – WENT HAYWIRE

Good Morning, Everyone!        🌾🌾 HAY! WIRE WE UP SO EARLY? 🌾🌾

🎶HAY there, you with the stars in your eyes…Love never made a fool of you, you used to be too wise. HAY there, you on that high-flyin’ cloud, though she won’t throw a crumb to you…You think some day she’ll come to you🎶

🌾🌾A BALER picks up plants and grass and gets it off the ground
And transforms into neat THICK bales that then are tightly WOUND.
It’s easier to handle, it’s easier to store
The backbreak work of rake and scythe will not be anymore.
The farmers greeted WARMLY this aid to their days work
A farmers life’s no easy one, and this was a great perk…
But looking at our farmers, their faces shocked and grave
We see there’s a malfunction, and the baler’s misBEHAVEd..
I’m not sure what will happen now, we’ve just seen this transpire..
But from the cartoon we can see that things just WENT HAYWIRE! 🌾🌾

• So, FARMING. To a city girl? Not my best subject…but what the HAY, I’ll give it a shot…”HAY, HOE...Lets go“….Today’s words, easy, breezy, old favorites. (And one not so old. We had WOUND as recently as 11/3). Maybe you had to warm up to WARMLY. Anyway, PLOWed right through them…Plow, I like that word. And I like doing the Yoga PLOW pose...until it becomes a pain in the neck! Sorry, Folks, it just TURNED UP in my mind…Ok, Our cartoon. Today Jeff is giving us a farm scene with two farmers baling HAY, and binding it with WIRE. Um, need I go on? Seize the HAY, Folks! This one was a gift! TIED UP for us with a bow! Things “WENT HAYWIRE”! Great pun, Dave. And Jeff? The graphic, with the word “crazy”….FUNCTIONED perfectly! The BALER. Maybe not such a bad subject after all…Now I’m thinking about the guy who invented it…He must have RAKED it in, right? I bet he made a BUNDLE! Ok, enough wasting time. Tout WHEAT! On to the eye candy! Hmm. Not much to FIELD here again today. Pretty PLAIN. Like looking for a needle in a HAYSTACK, really. I was hoping there was a woman in the cartoon….You know, a Purple HAYS? That would have been the LAST STRAW… but fun! But no, no candy….

So, there you have it Folks, Done!
Have a great day, Everyone! I hate to BALE, but I’ve got to make HAY! 🌾🙋🏻

SRNUP = SPURN

PMLIE = IMPEL

LATEHH = HEALTH

OBFEER = BEFORE

CARTOON ANSWER:

HE REALLY WANTED TO SAY HELLO TO THE WOMAN AND HAD – – –

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GNEBU = BEGUN

SUHEO = HOUSE

SMIRPH = SHRIMP

VTINEN = INVENT

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE TEACHER WAS EXPLAINING ACTION WORDS TO THE STUDENTS AND WAS BEING – – –

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MESSEA – SESAME

VARSOY – SAVORY

MURMES – SUMMER

NUEVEA – AVENUE

VRRIED – DRIVER

MSSETY – SYSTEM

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE POETRY COMPETITION FEATURED:

SSESVRSERVUERVESSE – – – VERSES VERSUS VERSES

Good Morning, Everyone!   📚 ADVERSE….VERSE?  To ‘V’ or not To ‘V’? 📚

🎶POETRY in motion, see her gentle sway, A wave out on the ocean, could never move that way…🎶

• 📚📚 I can’t imagine being in a deadlock match like this
  And having such resentment towards a fellow poetress.
  While competition’s healthy, and winning’s everyones goal
  I don’t think such an AVENUE is where I’d play a role.
  Something unSAVORY’s going on, and I’m surprised to see
  That even though the crowds upset, that’s one happy emcee.
  His being in the DRIVERs seat, you’d think he’d want to try
  To keep contestants friendly, and seeing eye to eye…
  I’ve been in competitions, and the SYSTEM didn’t go
  At all like this, where entrants look like they could come to blows…
  I’ve written poems for children, SESAME Street’s a favorite theme..
  I’ve written blue material, a voyeurs perfect dream.
  I’ve written about SUMMER days and winters cold as ice…
  But when reading work in public? I’ve always acted nice.
  So I just can’t imagine this, I mean what could be worse…?
  To make these women fight like this…It must be quite a purse! 📚📚

Sunday words. 6 and 6. With anagrams to CHALLENGE the best of us.
We’re not seeing anything new, but we are seeing some serious WORD PLAY today. And we have enough Vs and Ss to choke a VERSE! Ok, our cartoon. Jeff puts us at a poetry competition, TITLED “Poetry Slam Championship”. With the key word being SLAM! The two female contestants are going at it TATE and NEELE! The audience appears stunned! There’s WYLIEing and NASHing of teeth! Over Poetry? Such adVERSEity? I just don’t get it…I mean, let’s be BLUNT. If they’ve done their best, just get out there and REED. It’s not like they’re going out there BLIND, you know? No need to get so WILDE over it, right? But these two are at each other’s THOREAUts! Anyway, the dialogue shows us them trying to UPDIKE, I mean upstage each other, in VERSE, no less. And the whole time the emcee is smiling. Doesn’t he notice the competition is CUMMINGS apart at the seams? Doesn’t he see that this has turned into a fight? Poet against Poet…“VERSES VERSUS VERSES”? HA! How’s that for a pun? Very well WRITTEN, Dave. Another WINNER! Ok, eye candy. I have to go with the emcees’ grin…I just can’t COTTON to it!!
So, there you have it folks, DUNN!
Have a great day, Everyone!….And METAPHORS be with you! 📚🙋🏻

DAYNC – CANDY

SILPO – SPOIL

DLUDYC – CUDDLY

LEEFIB – BELIEF

CARTOON ANSWER:

 THE SYMPHONY’S BACKUP VIOLINIST DIDN’T LIKE PLAYING – – –

CNDSOIDDLEEF – SECOND FIDDLE

Good morning, Everyone!       🎻 The VIOLINST With Two BOWS?...🎻

🎶I promise that I won’t play SECOND FIDDLE…And no, I won’t be caught in the middle, no-no. Don’t worry about me ’cause girl I’m not gon’ miss you…Not even a little🎶

🎻🎻 It’s obvious a concert is where this phrase first took part…
And later became relative to matters of the heart.
Perhaps a woman SPOILED to the point that she has two
Men vying for her love, and yet she’s not sure who’s who…
One stays and tries to tell himself it’s he that she holds dear
BELIEF at first that maybe he’d be there instead of here…
And no amount of CANDY or flowers will bring change
The love triangle continues, he allowed if not arranged.
He stands and sees them CUDDLY while his heart is torn in two
Despite knowing departing is the thing he ought to do.
It’s gone on since the dawn of time, it’s really not a riddle…
One man will be her first choice, and the other SECOND FIDDLE 🎻🎻

At first glance, we see that today’s words have PLAYED here before. Perhaps the anagram of Cuddly is new. And speaking of glances, will you check out Miss Femme Fatale?! This First Violinist seems to have taken STRINGS to a whole new level. Both Clarinetist One and Two are looking at her so adoringly, it’s obvious she’s got them both WRAPPED around those talented little fingers! The flautist knows it too, because the look on her face leaves nothing to the imagination. There’s TENSION amongst this Symphony group, and it’s definitely TIGHTER than those aforementioned strings! This violinist has two BOWS, and she’s just STRINGING them both along! If I had to guess, I’d say Miss FF’s second fiddle is the one on the right…The come hither look she’s giving him is classic “Come into my web…”. The one on the left is obviously already caught! And the other players in the background…all watching the DRAMA PLAY out? The timpani player’s happy enough not DRUMming up any more trouble. The cymbalist though, isn’t exactly putting out any GOOD VIBRATIONS, by pointing out that the second violinist has yet to perform. And the backup violinist…? Sooooo not happy to be playing…”SECOND FIDDLE”! Great pun, Dave! And Jeff, if looks could kill? You’d need to call in the SECOND STRING here for sure! These may be your most expressive faces yet! Ok, Eye candy. And today, it definitely is EYE candy! It has to be Miss Femme Fatales’ eyes. She’s got temperatures a ROSIN! …

So, there you have it, Folks, Done!  Have a great day, Everyone! And remember…
Domestic VIOLINS can be avoided…Make beautiful MUSIC without a SECOND FIDDLE! 🎻🙋🏻

CANTE – ENACT

URVIS – VIRUS

WLEFLO – FELLOW

VARCOT – CAVORT

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE SEA-BASED WIND FARM PRODUCED THIS TYPE OF ENERGY – – –

NATVIUELLART – “ALL–TURN–ATIVE”

Good Morning, Everyone!        💨 WATER WE TALKING ABOUT? 💨

🎶How many roads must a man walk down…Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove SAIL before she sleeps in the sand?…
The answer, my friend, is BLOWIN‘ in the wind…The answer is BLOWIN‘ in the wind…🎶

💨💨 The FELLOW in our cartoon, may look like he’s CAVORTing
With his female counterpart, when actually they’re reporting
Assigned to monitor the wind from this farm in the sea
Named the London Array it generates electricity…
ENACTed in 2001, it’s the largest in the world
It’s new to me, but just the same I’m giving it a twirl.
In Europe they’ve been running, a pun not my intent
It seems a very good idea, to Energy invent…
We’re just developing one here, it’s up since 2016
As part of what needs to be done to make our country green…
To anyone who’s interested, the data’s all out there
So read up on it if you’d like to be made more aware.
I’m left with the word VIRUS, and I’ve tried with all my might..
It just don’t fit this theme today…I’m giving up the fight! 💨💨

• I’m sure there’s a slew of puns that could be made about this puzzle today, but I just don’t have the ENERGY. The WIND is still knocked out of me from yesterday’s food marathon. So I’ll give it a WHIRL, but it may not TURN out that great. Today’s words are all old favorites, so I’m just POWERing over to the cartoon. Jeff gives us a couple aboard a ship, monitoring the WIND Turbines. They both seem impressed with the results they have. I mean once you have the data, it’s not like you’re BLOWing smoke, right? It’s a different type of ENERGY we’re seeing here, it’s ALTERNATIVE. And here’s where David Hoyt proves once again that he could TURN anything into a great pun! The ENERGY is “ALL-TURN-ATIVE”! Well, BLOW me down! How COOL is this? The man makes it look like a BREEZE, right? Kudos, Dave! Ok, eye candy. Not much besides the turbines. I’ll have to settle for the woman’s little turbine pin. And for those of you who know me…I hate to settle. (I also can’t RESIST certain things sometimes)…We’re in the middle of the North Sea, 12 miles off the coast of Kent, in the United Kingdom…And the woman? The blonde woman?…Head to toe in purple! Yep, Head–to–Toe…I ask you…Is there no other ALTERNATIVE??
  So, there you have it Folks! Done!    Have a great day, Everyone!
• And all kidding aside…RENEWABLE ENERGY? I’m a big FAN! 💨🙋🏻

NAYHD = HANDY

GTIMH = MIGHT

NURSEU = UNSURE

PONCAY = CANOPY

CARTOON ANSWER:

AFTER RUBBING THE SEASONING ON THE THANKSGIVING TURKEY, SHE HAD – – –

HNDMHTNSEAOY = “THYME” ON HER HANDS

Good Thursday morning everyone and HAPPY THANKSGIVING! The clue words were no problem at all today. CANOPY was the only word that gave me a slight pause and would be my pick for the most difficult anagram to decipher.

Jumble artist, Jeff Knurek, did a superb job with today’s Thanksgiving themed cartoon! Looking at the panel, we see two people having a conversation. There’s a giant turkey on the countertop and a football game on the television in the background. We have seen these two particular characters many times in the past and they are magician Mac King and his beautiful wife, Jennifer Sils. Reading the dialogue and sentence, we learn that Mac is ready to spend some time with his wife, but Jennifer still has some “stuff” to do before she can relax.

The letter layout and solution for today’s game was well thought out by Mr. Hoyt. With HER being given to us, ON seemed like a great word to begin with. HANDS jumped out at me at that point leaving THYME to finish off the puzzle giving us a fantastic surprise answer.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving, and I’ll see you tomorrow! 🙂

SELYT – STYLE

VUREC – CURVE

LATBOL – BALLOT

RUOOPT – UPROOT

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE MOUNTAINTOP BARBERSHOP WAS A – – –

STECVEBAOURT – CUT ABOVE THE REST

Good Morning, Everyone!            ⛷  To SKI Or Not To SKI… ⛷

⛷⛷ One just can’t help but wonder why he’d wait till he got there
To realize that he could use a STYLE for his hair
The idea’s a unique one, I’d have to give them that
But since he’s going skiing, won’t his hair be ‘neath a hat?
And looking at the guy’s head, that’s a lot of hair we’re seein’
The CURVEs and waves he’s sporting…just how long has it been?
Well anyway, the shop must be a hit atop the slopes
I’m sure they took a BALLOT to decide the Barber’s hopes…
He came to them and offered his business to UPROOT
If they’d give him a chance up there, amongst the skis and boots
The Barber is a skier, far as sports goes, it’s his best
And he was always known to be a CUT ABOVE THE REST.
And one night as he tossed and turned and couldn’t get to sleep
He wondered how he’d get to ski and still a business keep
So what started out a Snow Job ended up reality
At 50 bucks a clip, he gets to work AND gets to ski! ⛷⛷

SNOW… let’s get DOWN to work. Today’s words. Maybe Ballot caused you to want to bolt, and with Uproot you couldn’t get “Out” out of your head…Not new words, but FRESHly FALLEN anagrams. Well done, Dave! Ok, it’s early, let’s take a MILK RUN over to our cartoon. Honestly, I’ve NEVER-EVER seen anything like this. A Barber Shop atop the slopes! With an old-fashioned Barber POLE…GRIPping image, right? Kind of BOWLed me over! I mean it’s sort of the LAST place you’d expect to see a Barber Shop, right? But then again, what were once considered PIPE dreams, today are realities. Ok. Enough idle CHATTER… Let me shake my TAIL and solve this…Jeff shows us the shop, and a skier getting his hair cut. We see the barber CUTting quickly, little hairs flying around. The skier is happy, saying “Nothing ‘TOPS‘ the place. The answer mentions the Mountaintop…The shop is, a : “CUT ABOVE THE REST“! PARK it right here, Folks, this is a great one LINER! Dave has CARVEd us out another one! Ok…Eye candy. We got skis. A SKI LIFT complete with tiny little people. (Great detail, Jeff). Those scissors in MOTION. And then we have the jar with the combs in Barbicide, and that iconic RED and white Barber Pole. The red being the only true color in the pic. Well, anyone out there who knows me, knows that even with the icicles HANGing off it, that pole is Brooklyn memories to me…and it just WARMS my heart.  The POLE it is! So, there you have it Folks, Done!
Have a great day, Everyone! And remember…Skiing’s not for everyone…It may be a WINTER activity, but to some of us, it’s a real FALL sport…Just Sayin’ 🎿🙋🏻

DOYDL = ODDLY

CENIE = NIECE

SKEORM = SMOKER

BUTEAP = UPBEAT

CARTOON ANSWER:

SHERLOCK HOLMES GAVE HIS FRIENDS DISCOUNTS, AND THEY WERE THANKFUL FOR HIS – – –

DDNICSOUET = DEDUCTIONS

Good morning everyone and happy Tuesday! After such an easy puzzle yesterday, NIECE and UPBEAT gave me a bit of a challenge this morning. UPBEAT caused me the longest delay and would be my choice for the most difficult anagram.

After reading the dialogue and sentence, we learn that Jeff has drawn a panel of the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. Apparently Mr. Holmes has just solved a mystery for his friends and is discussing compensation for his services. With that information in mind, I’d like to focus a bit more on the overall solution than the cartoon itself.

Looking at the ultra-cryptic letter layout, I saw DISCOUNT immediately and thought that my sleuthing was done for the day. Adding the leftover letters of -ED to the end seemed logical but DISCOUNTED didn’t fit the sentence and DISCOUNTS was already used. Scratching my head, I jumbled the letters a few times on my notepad and worked a bit more until I found DEDUCT. The leftover letters were quickly placed at the end and my caper was solved!

I hope you had an easier solve than I did, as we don’t often have two words of 10-letters that seem to fit the sentence. Have a terrific Tuesday and I’ll see you tomorrow!

VIRRE = RIVER

ZELGA = GLAZE

MYIKPS = SKIMPY

TREEJS = JESTER

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE HOT AIR BALLOONISTS WERE ABLE TO SEE THE SUN COME UP BECAUSE THEY WERE – – –

RRLAESIYSER = EARLY RISERS

Good morning, my friends, and welcome back to another week of Jumble fun! Guest Jumbler week is finally over and we’re reintroduced once again to the cast of Jumble characters that we’ve come to know and love. The clue words were no trouble as is almost expected on a Monday morning warmup puzzle. JESTER would be my pick for the most difficult anagram only because it’s a little more obscure of a word than the rest of the pack.

Moving on to the cartoon, it was wonderful to see Mr. Knurek’s artistry on display after a long week of guest fill-ins. The panel features a hot air ballon with two occupants taking up half of the space with a beautiful sunrise occurring on the remainder. Reading the dialogue and sentence, we learn that the husband and wife team had different ideas when it came to sleeping the night before. The male half states that he was happy that they “woke up when they did” while his better half says that she’s “glad we didn’t go to bed late last night”. As the husband enjoys a hot beverage and fights to keep his eyes open, his wide-eyed wife waits to for the perfect moment to snap a photo (see below).

The letter layout, in my opinion, could have been jumbled better to make it more cryptic. EARLY was practically grouped together and was a snap to find with RISERS taking just a moment longer.

I wish you a marvelous Monday, and I’ll see you tomorrow!

ENSNEU – UNSEEN

BOLACT – COBALT

CAPECT – ACCEPT

FSEUDE – DEFUSE

CUNKOL – UNLOCK

TANTIA – ATTAIN

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE ONE REMAINING APARTMENT IN THE BUILDING WAS – – –

SENBLTAETDUSLOTA – LAST, BUT NOT “LEASED”

Good Morning, Everyone!         🏢 “It’s the LEASED we can do…” 🏢

🎶HOMEward bound…I wish I was HOMEward bound. HOME where my thought’s escaping..HOME where my music’s playing, HOME where my love lies waiting silently for me…🎶

🏢 Apartment dwelling has its perks as many will attest
I have never building dwelt, so I can’t say what’s best
But friends of mine cannot ACCEPT it any other way
They simply want to come and go on any given day.
They don’t rake leaves, or shovel snow, these remain sight UNSEEN
They don’t care if the Lobby’s painted COBALT or lime green
They get home and UNLOCK their doors, and they remain content
Home ownership is not for them, they’re happy to pay rent.
They hardly know their neighbors, no conflicts to DEFUSE
They say the only worry is which elevator they’ll use
It’s city life they long for and there’s no desire to ATTAIN
A house in old suburbia …So renters they remain.🏢

🏢 My first thought upon seeing today’s words was…You can tell it’s Sunday!
The anagrams are exceptionally well done, and caused me to blink more than once. But, with them LOCKED up, LET’s MOVE on to our cartoon. I’d first like to say, that even though I believe these panels are drawn up to six weeks in advance, and Jeff may not even be “here” today, his work is. So I say, “OWLEEMC MOHE, Jeff! 🎶It’s so nice to have you back where you belong….”🎶 Ok, MOVING ON…Our dialogue: “apartment is available”. Our question: “One remaining”…We see its a rental, a “lease”…LAST, BUT NOT…”LEASED“! Boom! Sign on the dotted line, we’re taking the place! How clever is this? Once again, David…you OWN it! Great pun! Ok, eye CANDY. C’mon Jeff…After a whole week, I’m so hungry for something SWEET! The Chicago skyline? The tiny peephole on Apt. D1?(Great detail, Jeff). The women’s purple clothing? The two-toned platform heels? (Are they available for purchase…? My checks in the mail…). Ok, ok. I’ll choose. The blonde woman is wearing a tiny round piece of jewelry, with the letter “C“. That’s my “C“hoice!
So, there you have it Folks! Done! Have a great day, Everyone!
And remember…Be it ever so JUMBLE…There’s no place like Home! 🏢 🙋🏻

COLEL – CELLO

SRIOV – VISOR

REEFTR – FERRET

WUDINN – UNWIND

CARTOON ANSWER : WHEN THOR INVENTED THE WHEEL, HE STARTED A – – –

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IKYML – MILKY

BERLE – REBEL

RUCCEA – ACCRUE

UNCESS – CENSUS

CARTOON ANSWER:

THE ROOKIE’S DESSERT WAS SO BADLY BURNED, THE HEAD CHEF CALLED IT A – – –

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OVPIT = PIVOT

MUPEL = PLUME

CHDNER = DRENCH

GTELIP = PIGLET

CARTOON ANSWER:

AFTER GINGER GAVE THE KANGAROO A COFFEE, HE WAS – – –

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