Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — SETTOPLAY
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Monday, January 16, 2023. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The cartoon clue
The tennis players had arrived at the court and were —
Punchline answer
SETTOPLAY
Answer letters9
Vowels3
DateJan 16
TypeCartoon
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “The tennis players had arrived at the court and were —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Monday, January 16, 2023. The punchline answer is SETTOPLAY — 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 16, 2023 answers page.