Cryptoquote Spoiler – 05/10/17

“As I love to say, if you can pick it, pluck it, milk it, or shoot it, you can eat it.”   —   Suzanne Somers

(I’m sure that Euell Gibbons might take issue with this quote!  Don’t take survivalist advice from Suzanne Somers, folks.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

Jumble Spoiler – 05/10/17

Visual Description:  Deleted scene from The China Syndrome.

LEWNY  =  NEWLY,  FURGF  =  GRUFF,  DEBNOY  =  BEYOND,  ZLAREB  =  BLAZER   —   Giving us:  NEYGUFEONDBLER

Clue/Question:  The new employee at the nuclear plant was a – — 

 

Answer:  BUNDLE OF ENERGY

(Very nice pun.  No new clue words, although three of the jumbles did come up as new.  We’ve seen “furgf” before.  I thought the jumble for “beyond” was pretty good.  I didn’t have to back into it, but I did skip it and came back to it after getting “blazer”.  The answer letter layout was a nicely cryptic jumble too.  The cartoon is fun.  I recognized Jack Lemmon right away, and figured the bearded one had to be the Michael Douglas character, who wasn’t a new employee in the movie, but the cameraman for Jane Fonda’s reporter character.  The movie was nominated for a number of Academy Awards.  It was a great thriller of a movie, that eerily mirrored the incident at Three Mile Island, also in 1979.  I guess Jeff had to go with this movie than with Homer Simpson, because Homer would never be described as a “bundle of energy”.  And, no.  Eating donuts doesn’t count!  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR