Visual Description: Lifestyles of The Obscenely Rich, Part Deux.
RDTEN = TREND, PIREG = GRIPE, DURETG = TRUDGE, ODIMUP = PODIUM — Giving us: TNGIETREODI
Clue/Question: When he was asked to train the new horse, the jockey said he would – – –
Answer: GET “RIDE“ ON IT
(Another great stinky pun! And, one that I did not pick up on immediately. I definitely didn’t struggle with it any, but the answer didn’t jump off the page for me either.
All old favorite clue words again. However, all of the jumbles are coming up as new. All great, but the only one to give me any pause was “odimup”. The answer letter layout was a fine 11-letter jumble. It did a good job of disguising the answer. As usual, the quotation marks were a big clue. And due to the way the clue/question was phrased, I was able to reason that the first word was going to be GET. Although, NOT might have worked as well, but fortunately I didn’t think that, until just now.
Fun cartoon, again! Jeff is giving us the same uber-rich couple that we saw just yesterday. I liked the background, with the grandstand and the other horse being put through his paces. My only quibble with this Jumble is that – typically – the jockey is not responsible for “training” any horse. They have trainers for that. The jockey needs to develop a rapport with the horse, and he/she works with the trainer, but their job is more to ride the horse in the races. But, I loved it anyway! Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
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Unclerave's Wordy Weblog 
We love you, David and Jeff, but in the past month, we’ve had:
Two horse RIDE/right pun puzzles (today and September 26th),
Two puzzles (October 4th and 10th) pivoting on “course” (one golf COURSE, one COARSE sandpaper).
Two BUY/by pun puzzles (October 12th and September 29th)
Three numbers pun puzzles (October 2nd, 9th, and 15th), including BY THE NUMBERS which Unc and I thought was a rerun, though I don’t have a date for a previous one and could be wrong. (And I *did* appreciate the clever TEN-FOUR answer.)
Maybe there’s a method to the madness. “We’ll drill it ’til ya got it.”
And I don’t envy trying to come up with 365 new ideas a year–yikes. I’d just like to see some of these duplicate themes spaced out a little more.
I do have praise and applause for other fresh, funny, and/or challenging, brilliant final answers this past month, including:
“SIRIUS” ABOUT IT
EGGS SCRAMBLED
“EXPERT-TEASE”
“A-CHORD-ING” TO PLAN
FRONT AND “SCENTER”
“WADE IN SEA” ATTITUDE.
Those were all really good. Rock on all.
Ya take the good, ya take the bad, ya take them all, and there you have . . . the facts of Jumble! Luckily, the guys are tough enough to take a little criticism. — YUR
Certainly the case. They recently said they’ve gotten complaints one fan saying a puzzle is too hard, another fan saying the same puzzle is too easy, one minute apart.
I’m sure some of my deja vus were other fans’ rib-tickling favorites. You can’t please everybody. It’s like the weather. Not digging it? Just wait…