Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — DOWNDRAIN
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Monday, August 4, 2025. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
When the plumber got a call early Saturday his weekend plans went — ____ THE ____
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “When the plumber got a call early Saturday his weekend plans went — ____ THE ____” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Monday, August 4, 2025. The punchline answer is DOWNDRAIN — 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 August 4, 2025 answers page.