Sunday Jumble Solved – 01/15/23

Visual Description:  Boxing Blooper.

MHEYMA  =  MAYHEM,  CYSHEP  =  PSYCHE,  TENNYI  =  NINETY,  BARROH  =  HARBOR,  SUWNIE  =  UNWISE,  RMALEV  =  MARVEL   —   Giving us:  HEPSCINTHOUWERL

Clue/Question:  When things didn’t go right during the filming of “Rocky”, Sylvester Stallone would – – –

Pre-Answer:  Four Words  “(4-letters)”  (4-letters)  THE  (7-letters)

Answer:  “ROLE“ WITH THE PUNCHES

(A knockout of a cinematic pugilistic pun!  And not the easiest final answer to come up with.  When I first started reading the Mick line in the cartoon I wasn’t even sure if this was part of the movie.  It wasn’t until the Rocky/Sylvester line that I got that it was the actors speaking.

All of today’s clue words have been used in other Jumbles.  Five of the jumbles appear to be new though.  Only the jumble “tennyi” has definitely been used in earlier Jumbles.  None were all that difficult for me though.  The answer letter layout was a fabulous fifteen letter jumble!  I thought it was fiercely cryptic.  Due to the phrasing of the clue/question, my first thoughts were HELP WITH . . . something.  But just looking at SCNOUER told me that it couldn’t be so.  And also the word HELP didn’t make any sense being in quotation marks.  Taking away HELP helped me to see PUNCHES.  The WITH never changed, and with the OERL the pun part really hit home.  A little difficult, but I was never on the ropes, folks.

Great cartoon of a dramatic corner scene in the now classic film “Rocky”.  I didn’t even notice the camera in the shot right away!  One of my favorite movies.  This was a really fun Sunday Jumble.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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