Visual Description: Single-person rowing boat hitting a pier.
UPDYM = DUMPY, GALEL = LEGAL, STEACK = CASKET, ZULZEG = GUZZLE — Giving us: DMLGACASULE
Clue/Question: What the rower suffered when his boat hit the pier.
Answer: SCULL DAMAGE
(Are the Jumble people omitting the quotation marks, or do you think that the newspapers are making some kind of space-saving decisions?) — YUR
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Must be—as you say–save space–and/or use less ink??
Who knows??