Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — STEAMING
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Sunday, December 25, 2022. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The cartoon clue
When the workers were tardy the cleaner was –
Punchline answer
STEAMING
Answer letters8
Vowels3
DateDec 25
TypeCartoon
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “When the workers were tardy the cleaner was –” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Sunday, December 25, 2022. The punchline answer is STEAMING — 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 December 25, 2022 answers page.