Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — LOWGRADEFEVER
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Tuesday, August 22, 2023. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The student’s excuse for failing the test was that he had a —
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “The student’s excuse for failing the test was that he had a —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Tuesday, August 22, 2023. The punchline answer is LOWGRADEFEVER — a 13-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 22, 2023 answers page.