Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — DETERRED
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Wednesday, February 21, 2024. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The cartoon clue
They ran into a detour but they weren’t —
Punchline answer
DETERRED
Answer letters8
Vowels3
DateFeb 21
TypeCartoon
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “They ran into a detour but they weren’t —” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Wednesday, February 21, 2024. The punchline answer is DETERRED — 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 February 21, 2024 answers page.