Sunday Jumble Solved – 01/22/23

Visual Description:  Answer to the My Pillow Guy!

GIYEHT  =  EIGHTY,  PSEORY  =  OSPREY,  YDIHRB  =  HYBRID,  WORHNT  =  THROWN,  APNSIR  =  SPRAIN,  CNLIHF  =  FLINCH   —   Giving us:  EGTOERIDTWPRNFCH

Clue/Question:  After using the highest quality feathers to make the pillows, they were – – – 

Pre-Answer:  Two Words  (9-letters)  (7-letters)

Answer:  DOWNRIGHT PERFECT

(A nicely challenging Jumble.  And a decent pun too.  I grew up using down/feather pillows, but they were all a bit long in the tooth!  I remember little feathers popping out of the seams, from time to time.  I’d think they’d be difficult to launder.  You probably have to take them to a dry cleaner.  Some people still swear by them.  I’ve generally used various foam pillows for the last 40 years or so.  Never bought a My Pillow!  But I do own a couple of memory foam pillows.  I like a single stand alone pillow, so the memory foam one works great for me.  But the wife likes to be elevated, and uses multiple pillows, with the memory foam one being the base.  She also thinks that, by itself, it’s too hard.  Obviously, there is no ChatGPT being used on THIS blog!

All of today’s clue words are on the ralis95 clue word database.  I was hoping maybe “osprey” might be new, but no.  Surprisingly, all of the jumbles are coming up as new, for me.  That is pretty impressive.  The only one to give me any serious pause was “pseory”.  Probably because the clue word starts with an O.  The answer letter layout was a spectacular sixteen letter jumble!  Wonderfully cryptic, with only four vowels.  My first inclination was that the first word was going to end in ING, but nothing solid was coming to me.  Then, for the second word, the word PERFECT just kind of jumped out at me!  With the GTOIDWRNH remaining I was still thinking the first word would be ending in ING, but I couldn’t do anything with TODWRH!  Abandoning the ending in ING helped me to see DOWNRIGHT . . . and the pun!

Simple cartoon of the pillow maker, and the potential customer.  I liked the sewing machine and the big bag of goose down, for stuffing the pillows.  And there are a couple of completed pillows on the opposite table.  Nothing fancy was needed today, so that’s what we got.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

Images courtesy of Google

Jumble Solved – 01/21/23

Visual Description:  Casual deerstalkers.

TRBOO  =  ROBOT,  PTURE  =  ERUPT,  LZISEZ  =  SIZZLE,  UNHEQC  =  QUENCH   —   Giving us:  OBOERTSZEEH

Clue/Question:  The hunters didn’t see any deer, but they did get to – – –

Answer:  SHOOT THE BREEZE

(That’s my kind of hunting!  I fully understand the need for hunters, in this day and age, but I don’t think I, personally, could actually kill an animal.  It’s just not in me.  I’m too tenderhearted.  And too spoiled, I guess.  I don’t like to think about how the sausage is made.  I wouldn’t necessarily call this a stinky pun.  Maybe just a little . . . gamey.

Four classic Jumble Clue words.  We’ve seen them all on a number of occasions.  But I believe that all of the jumbles are coming up as new.  I say “believe” because I started this yesterday, and saved it as a draft, and WordPress hides the Tags once you start writing the body of the post.  The Tags are where I enter the jumbled words.  But I also check off any jumbles, on the newspaper or print-out, as I’m checking the Tags, and there are no checks to these jumbles.  Regardless, they were not particularly difficult to unscramble.  The answer letter layout was an elevated eleven letter jumble.  Decently cryptic.  The cartoon and the clue/question set it up for a quick solve.

The cartoon is very amusing.  With the two guys just enjoying their cups of coffee, and hanging out.  I like the – ironic – deer watching them from behind a distant tree!  The two hunters look like they could even be brothers.  Ya gotta wonder if they’ve ever shot anything!  I think they just need a reason to get out of the house every once in a while.  I can relate.  Fun Jumble.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

Images courtesy of Google, and Jeff Larson