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Visual Description: A fowl situation in the barnyard.
ERCIL = RELIC, NOWDU = WOUND, MEIPTR = PERMIT, SIWNOD = DISOWN — Giving us: ECOPRO
Clue/Question: After the storm, the farmer would need to . . .
Answer: “RE–COOP“
(Now, there’s a good groaner for you, Richard! Another good day of carefully chosen, well-scrambled clue words. With a good, unobvious answer letter layout! Also, the cartoon was tastefully timed. It didn’t coincide with any recent devastating meteorological events. There’s been too many of them this year. Amazingly, we seem to have lucked out on the tropical storm/hurricanes . . . so far, this year. Hopefully, it will be a milder season this year. Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
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