Visual Description: Clever copper.
NUJTO = JOINT, CCINY = CYNIC, CURPSE = SPRUCE, TUREMT = MUTTER — Giving us: JOICICSPEUTTE
Clue/Question: The rhyming sheriff specialized in – – –
Answer: POETIC JUSTICE
(A very nice, and long answer! No new clue words today, but three new jumbles. We’ve seen “curpse” before. The answer letter layout was definitely nifty! A cryptic jumbo jumble! The cartoon has a semi “Smokey and The Bear” feel to it. Maybe “The Dukes of Hazard”. Don’t sass the sheriff! Nowadays, you just might get shot! Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
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Spruce was the tough word of the day. I got Mutter, but stopped to consider if that was the right word or not.
That was a challenging bonus answer–nice work guys. I took the bait on the cryptic clue. “Rhyming” suggested to me a two-word bonus answer that would rhyme–they do that sometimes–especially when, as in this bonus answer, there are a number of letters appearing twice that could be used to make a rhyme. Fortunately I tried -ice first at the end of each word and also remembered that often “J” in a bonus answer is somewhat more likely to be at the front of a word than in the middle, which quickly got me to “justice” and a faster solution than if I’d kept looking for rhyme words to solve it. Sometimes I stay with my mistaken assumption too long, and other times I get lucky and quickly realize I’m off-track.
Even though “good poetry” doesn’t necessarily rhyme, I’m a simple enough kind of slob to make the jump of “rhyming” to “poetic” without too much thought! But, I definitely know where you are coming from, David. I kind of felt that way about today’s (Sunday’s) Jumble. Based on my assumptions, I tried a few things, erroneously, but then I wised up!
— YUR