Visual Description: I’ll just gouge the next customer.
LHAHET = HEALTH, RFIMON = INFORM, TKNETI = KITTEN, LNUGEF = ENGULF, CAITTN = INTACT, CNOIRI = IRONIC — Giving us: HHINOKTNGFNTTIOI
Clue/Question: When she thanked him for not charging her for the repair, he said – – –
Pre-Answer: Four Words (5-letters) (7-letters) (2-letters) (2-letters)
Answer: THINK NOTHING OF IT
(A great Sunday Jumble pun! Of course this rarely – if ever – happens nowadays. Just about every repair person charges a service charge these days, just for showing up at your door. It’s kind of understanding. After all time is money. But some of these service fees are very hefty! I think that maybe they could prorate their service charges, based on the time it takes them to do what they gotta do. This guy likely tightened a nut/screw, or reset a fuse, or something. No real skin off his nose. Somebody forward me his phone number, please!
All of today’s clue words are – unsurprisingly – in the ralis95 clue word database. But – surprisingly – all of today’s jumbles are coming up as new! They all came to me 1, 2, 3. The answer letter layout was a sensational sixteen letter jumble. Wonderfully cryptic. My first thought though was DON’T MENTION IT, but that’s only thirteen letters, three words, and there was no apostrophe in the final answer slots. But that phrase led me immediately to THINK NOTHING OF IT. The NOTHING makes much more sense anyway.
Fine domestic scene cartoon. Some folks just can’t seem to live without their automatic dishwashers. The wife and I have absolutely no problem washing our dishes by hand. When I was a small kid we made it a nightly family event. It helped to establish the concepts of teamwork and cooperation. With today’s parents . . . I’m sure they have an app for that! Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
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Busy day over in the XXXX of the XXXX, with ?? remarks in total, nein by our head XXXXXXXX (powerful .??? average).
A frosty start here, but not as cold as Colorado and their new Coach Prime.
Have a Prime Monday,
— Will Marshall (aka Smitty)
Smitty old boy, you’re a piece of work. Somehow Smitty doesn’t translate well from Will Marshall. Is this another person who you have a problem with? I’m not sure that a blog that’s mainly about newspaper puzzles is your best vehicle for getting even with anybody. Why do you persist? You can see that I’m altering your comments. Civil discourse is always welcome here, but not attacks that don’t have anything to do the content that I post. All you’re really doing is making more work for yer poor ol’ uncle!
— YUR
I have no problem with them at all. Malice towards none, love the banter. ❤️
Will Marshall is in reference to the TV show The Land of the Lost. Not to be confused with Will Robinson of Lost in Space. This does not compute.
— Smitty