Climbing ferns overtake cypress trees in the Everglades. The ferns act as “fire ladders” that can destroy trees that would otherwise survive fires. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Visual Description: Ever after in the Everglades.
LOYID = DOILY, REVAB = BRAVE, WLIPOL = PILLOW, BLOYMS = SYMBOL — Giving us: DAEPWSM
Clue/Question: The alligator was stressed out because he was – – –
Alligator dans le parc national des Everglades (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Answer: SWAMPED
(Cute! A real groaner of a pun, set up by an entertaining cartoon. All of today’s clue words are old favorites. However, all of the jumbles are coming up as new. The answer letter layout was a fine jumble too. It’s just kind of hard to hide today’s answer. Love the cartoon. Saturday’s Jumble continued to generate a lot of queries yesterday. 4066, combined with Saturday’s 5861, probably made it the biggest two day total on record for this blog. Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
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Easy peasy. 7 seconds.
Relatively simple. Though the last word took some time, and the cartoon answer didn’t come right away. Had to come back to it later on, and the answer came right up.