Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — MARCHINGORDERS
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Friday, April 17, 2026. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
Before the parade began the drum major gave the musicians their —
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “Before the parade began the drum major gave the musicians their —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Friday, April 17, 2026. The punchline answer is MARCHINGORDERS — a 14-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 April 17, 2026 answers page.