Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — MISSTEPS
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Monday, January 17, 2022. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The staircase wasn’t going to be finished on schedule because of the —
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “The staircase wasn’t going to be finished on schedule because of the —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Monday, January 17, 2022. The punchline answer is MISSTEPS — a 8-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, 2022 answers page.