Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — HIGHSTRUNG
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Monday, August 18, 2025. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The cartoon clue
Nervous and tense the tightrope walker was definitely —
Punchline answer
HIGHSTRUNG
Answer letters10
Vowels2
DateAug 18
TypeCartoon
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “Nervous and tense the tightrope walker was definitely —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Monday, August 18, 2025. The punchline answer is HIGHSTRUNG — 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 August 18, 2025 answers page.