[Puzzle] Silent Treatment – 12 February 2024

Last Monday, Stick Figure Party was published. The hint is now available, as is the solution to the puzzle from two weeks ago, Souvenir Collection.

The new puzzle for this week is Silent Treatment. A couple clues had multiple answers which could work. In particular, the fourth row now reads “Battle _____ of the Republic”, and the ninth reads “Grape, peach, or apple”. Let me know if you think you’ve found any other ambiguities. Thank you to Grant for helping with these two.

The sixth season of Grant Fikes’ series Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, his homage to this site, is ongoing as well. If anything, these puzzles are a bit easier than mine, and as an added bonus, he donates to a food pantry for every solve. Head on over and solve some puzzles to help the hungry!

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.