Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — BYAFFRONT
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Friday, January 12, 2024. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The employee who didn’t get a promotion was taken aback — ____ THE ____
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “The employee who didn’t get a promotion was taken aback — ____ THE ____” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Friday, January 12, 2024. The punchline answer is BYAFFRONT — a 9-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 January 12, 2024 answers page.