Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — KEYMAN
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Sunday, August 8, 2021. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The cartoon clue
What the locksmith considered his able assistant –
Punchline answer
KEYMAN
Answer letters6
Vowels2
DateAug 8
TypeCartoon
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “What the locksmith considered his able assistant –” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Sunday, August 8, 2021. The punchline answer is KEYMAN — a 6-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 8, 2021 answers page.