Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — TAILGATOR
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The cartoon clue
The Everglades reptile that was following too close was a —
Punchline answer
TAILGATOR
Answer letters9
Vowels4
DateAug 16
TypeCartoon
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “The Everglades reptile that was following too close was a —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Tuesday, August 16, 2022. The punchline answer is TAILGATOR — 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 August 16, 2022 answers page.