Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — COMECLEAN
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Saturday, January 17, 2026. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The FBI agents kept questioning the alleged money launderer hoping he’d —
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “The FBI agents kept questioning the alleged money launderer hoping he’d —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Saturday, January 17, 2026. The punchline answer is COMECLEAN — 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 17, 2026 answers page.