Hello, everybody! It’s a new month, which brings the beginning of a whole new puzzle set! This is the first themed set on this site, and the meta will work a little differently. You will need not only the solutions to the puzzles, but also their completed grids in order to complete the meta.
On the subject of metapuzzles, congratulations to all nineteen of you who solved last week’s meta. The hint for it, as well as the solution to the final feeder puzzle are both available for anybody who hasn’t solved it yet.
The first of seven gridded puzzles over the next two months is Nono-Nonsense Puzzling. Complete the grid to find a one-word answer, then save both the answer and the grid.
Another bit of news for this week is the return of the Contact page. You should be able to find it on the top menu. To fight the spam that caused the previous removal of the page, sending a message to me will require you to look up an answer to a previous puzzle from the Archive page. Hopefully this proves relatively simple for humans but difficult for bots.
The final bit of news for this week is that Grant Fikes has started up his seventh season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, his homage to this site. Normally, he posts word puzzles every Wednesday, but during Kevin’s Puzzles at Home, he posts a simple puzzle hunt puzzle each Monday, twelve hours before my puzzles. What’s more, he donates to a food pantry for every solve, so 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.