Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — HOURLYWAGE
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Sunday, December 5, 2021. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The cartoon clue
What some watchmakers are paid
Punchline answer
HOURLYWAGE
Answer letters10
Vowels4
DateDec 5
TypeCartoon
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “What some watchmakers are paid” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Sunday, December 5, 2021. The punchline answer is HOURLYWAGE — a 10-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 December 5, 2021 answers page.