Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — HOMEWARDBOUND
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Friday, May 12, 2023. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The copy of the novel the publisher was sending to the author was —
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “The copy of the novel the publisher was sending to the author was —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Friday, May 12, 2023. The punchline answer is HOMEWARDBOUND — a 13-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 May 12, 2023 answers page.