Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — ASCREWFLIES
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Wednesday, October 18, 2023. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The distance between NYC and Tokyo in an airplane is 6739 miles — ____ THE “____” ____
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “The distance between NYC and Tokyo in an airplane is 6739 miles — ____ THE “____” ____” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Wednesday, October 18, 2023. The punchline answer is ASCREWFLIES — a 11-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 October 18, 2023 answers page.