NRKIB = BRINK
UORTG = GROUT
PROECP = COPPER
HINLEA = INHALE
CARTOON ANSWER:
BEFORE HER UPCOMING SPEECH IN THE LEGISLATURE, THE SENATOR DID MUCH – – –
RI ROT OPP NAE =
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🧩 CLUE WORD BREAKDOWN
NRKIB = BRINK
An extra glance did it.
Last used: 04/02/2025 as NRKIB
UORTG = GROUT
No trouble at all.
Last used: 03/02/2024 as OTRGU
PROECP = COPPER
Instantly visible.
Last used: 06/29/2025 as PROCEP
HINLEA = INHALE
My pick for hardest.
Last used: 11/03/2024 as ILAHNE
🔎 Jumble Jeff’s Jems
➤ THE SENATOR
The senator has short, shoulder-length hair and an earring in her right ear. She’s wearing a blazer and a flag pin on her left lapel. She holds the speech in her right hand while gesturing with her left.
➤ THE STAFFERS
The staffer who interrupts the senator has shoulder-length hair with an earring in her left ear. To her left, a colleague in a dress shirt and tie is making the change on a laptop. Across the table, two more staffers sit. The staffer in the foreground has a copy of the speech in her hand and an open soda can to her right, while the staffer to her left is listening in.
➤ THE BACKGROUND
They’re gathered around a conference table with a flag and eagle finial positioned behind the senator.
🧠 FINAL SOLVE
The final answer was an 11-letter anagram that would solve into a single hyphenated word with a layout of “4 + 7.” After a pretty smooth start to the week with two single-word answers, today’s puzzle brought a bit more heat. With nothing coming into view when first looking at the cartoon, I had to lean on the clue letters to get through it. Once I had them written out, the two parts started pointing toward “preparation,” but with the answer shown in quotes and spelled differently, it didn’t take too long to spot the wordplay. If this one slowed you down, our nudges were the group gathered around the conference table helping the senator, which gave us PREP, while her reading her speech aloud gave us ORATION.
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🎉 National Holidays* – April 29
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🛒 Daily Drops*
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🌔That’s A Wrap!
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