Cryptoquote Spoiler – 04/10/17

“Do the best you can until you know better.  Then when you know better, do better.”   —   Maya Angelou

(Maya Angelou has worked her way up to being a major player in the Cryptoquote world!  Mark Twain is #1, and Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Abraham Lincoln seem to be tied for #2.  Maya is right up there with George Bernard Shaw and Albert Einstein!  I’m not THE biggest Maya Angelou fan, but I dig her positivity!  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

Jumble Spoiler – 04/10/17

Visual Description:  Soup time!

MERIG  =  GRIME,  OHDUN  =  HOUND,  PITPEO  =  POTPIE,  LHITPG  =  PLIGHT   —   Giving us:  GIHNOPIPT

Clue/Question:  She offered the plumber soup that was – – –

Answer:  PIPING HOT

(Okay.  It works.  But, I’m not so sure about today’s new clue word, “potpie”.  You all know I’m not the biggest fan of compound words, but when I look it up online I see it both as a single word, and as broken down to the two words . . . that it is!  Hmm!  I would urge ralis95 to proceed carefully, before adding it to his world famous clue word database.  FWIW, I had to back into it.  I thought maybe my newspaper had made a mistake!  All of today’s jumbles came up as new.  The answer letter layout was another fine jumble.  The cartoon is great, with the plumber’s monkey wrench, acetylene torch, and crack-of-the-butt.  I think that’s almost a kind of uniform for them!  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR