[Puzzle] Affordable Acrostic – 20 May 2024

You Light Up My Life was released a week ago, and the hint is now posted. The solution to Nono‑Nonsense Puzzling, the puzzle from two weeks ago, is up as well.

This week’s puzzle is an Affordable Acrostic. Complete the grid to find your answer, then save both the answer and the grid for the metapuzzle at the end of June. The third and fourth clues were out of order, and they have been swapped. Thank you to Grant Fikes for noticing!

Reminder that Grant Fikes is in the midst of 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.