Daily Jumble Cartoon Answer — MIDDLEMAN
From the Daily Jumble cartoon on Sunday, May 1, 2022. The cartoon clue and its punchline answer revealed.
The cartoon clue
You might call an overweight broker this.
Punchline answer
MIDDLEMAN
Answer letters9
Vowels3
DateMay 1
TypeCartoon
About this cartoon answer
The cartoon clue “You might call an overweight broker this.” appeared in the Daily Jumble on Sunday, May 1, 2022. The punchline answer is MIDDLEMAN — 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 May 1, 2022 answers page.