Happy New Year! The hint for last week’s metapuzzle, Be True to Your Elf, is now posted. Well done to the eighteen solvers who have already finished it! The solution is to the final regular puzzle of 2023, † Word, is up as well.
2024 is starting off with the new puzzle, Sidekicks. This is the first puzzle in a new puzzle set for January-February.
The answer to the puzzle each week is a word or short phrase. Enter it into the box below, ignoring any punctuation. Due to a quirk of the setup, answer submissions with unorthodox spacing will take a while to appear on the leaderboard, though the solve time will be properly recorded.