Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — OUTOFSTOCK
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
After the publicly traded company was taken private its shares were —
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “After the publicly traded company was taken private its shares were —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The punchline answer is OUTOFSTOCK — a 10-letter word that completes the joke.
The cartoon is the centerpiece of every Daily Jumble. After unscrambling the four word jumbles, you take the circled letters from those answers and rearrange them to spell the punchline. The wordplay almost always hinges on a pun or double meaning. The full puzzle for this date — all four scrambled words plus this cartoon — is on the September 4, 2025 answers page.