Jumble Solved – 08/05/23

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Visual Description:  The Great Wide Open.

NEYPN  =  PENNY,  PAYPL  =  APPLY,  SCOMIA  =  MOSAIC,  LBUIFA  =  FIBULA   —   Giving us:  ENPPLMSIILA

Clue/Question:  The land formation was level and treeless, – – –

What is the Difference Between a Conestoga Wagon and a Prairie Schooner? -  National Oregon/California Trail Center

Answer:  PLAIN AND SIMPLE

(The Great Plains states!  Maybe Kansas.  Maybe Nebraska.  Maybe one of a bunch of other mid-western states.  That’s where the deer and the antelope play.  Oh, and bison too.  Lots of grassland, and plenty of Native American tribes.

All four clue words have been used before.  Two of the jumbles appear to be new, but we’ve definitely seen “neypn” and “paypl”  in earlier Jumbles.  The answer letter layout was an enigmatic eleven letter jumble.  Unobvious and cryptic.  I saw PLAIN first, the the AND led me to SIMPLE.

Wonderful cartoon of the Great Plains, and the wagon train party crossing it.  The wagons were called prairie schooners.  From a distance the white canvases looked like sails.  Great Saturday Jumble.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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