Jumble Spoiler – 01/10/17

Visual Description:  Contrails . . . or chemtrails?

SLOFS  =  FLOSS,  GAMIE  =  IMAGE,  LMINEB  =  NIMBLE,  RVOFRE  =  FERVOR   —   Giving us:  LSIANIER

Clue/Question:  With planes landing one after another the sky was filled with – – – 

Answer:  AIR LINES

(Not a bad pun.  But, if some of them are chemtrails they could be – dun dun duuuun – government planes!  The idea sounds nutty to most people, but even many famous people are convinced of them.  I know people who are completely convinced that every line in the sky is the result of the government doing stuff to us, and/or manipulating the weather.  I don’t completely discount these assertions, but like Freud is said to have said:  Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar!  

There were no new clue words today, and only two of the jumbles came up as new.  We’ve definitely seen “slofs” and “gamie” before.  “Floss” is one of those words that spells out in alphabetical order.  The answer letter layout was a nice jumble.  And, the cartoon definitely got the point across.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR 

Cryptoquote Spoiler – 01/10/17

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”   —   Source Obscure

(Emerson, Holmes, Thoreau???  This quote, that you hear at many commencement ceremonies, has no clear author.  Any one of them, or someone else, could have said it.  It’s a little optimistically trite, but it’s a nice motivational ism.  At least for me, it made for a very easy solve.  I am without a print version of the Cryptoquote for the next five days, or so.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR