Jumble Solved – 04/13/23

Visual Description:  Every father’s nightmare.

TRYID  =  DIRTY,  ETLFE  =  FLEET,  ENTIYN  =  NINETY,  LQASUL  =  SQUALL   —   Giving us:  DTYFETINYALL

Clue/Question:  Most people accept that the world is round, but a few people – – –

Answer:  FLATLY DENY IT

(There are definitely some out there.  I think the term “conspiracy theory” is WAY overused, and it is generally used as a pejorative to stifle legitimate discussion, and to keep people in check.  But scientific facts are scientific facts, folks.  Why debate what is measurable and provable?  Yes, the Cold War’s nuclear arms race was a big factor in the space race, between the U.S. and the Soviets.  But that doesn’t mean that manned space flight and the moon landing were faked in any way.  Do governments frequently lie/hide the truth?  Sure.  Do they make deals with human rights violators?  Unfortunately, yes.  Do they occasionally sacrifice some people as a way of the ends justifying the means?  Absolutely.  But there’s no end game in falsifying science.  There just isn’t.

There were no new clue words today.  Sorry, LindaLee!  Two of the jumbles are coming up as new, but we’ve definitely seen both “tryid” and “etlfe” in earlier Jumbles.  All the clue words came to me quickly this morning.  The answer letter layout was another terrific twelve letter jumble.  Expertly jumbled, so as not to be obvious.  After ticking off the DENY IT letters that left me with TYFALL, which gave me FLATLY.  A perfect pun for the situation.

Great cartoon of the incredulous father talking to his daughter’s boyfriend.  Hopefully, this was not a real life episode for Jeff Knurek . . . or David L. Hoyt.  We try to raise our kids to seek out honest and rational partners, but there’s only so much any parent can do.  There are a lot of sketchy folks who sometimes seem to have a strange appeal to those that we love.  Sad but true.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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