Give Up?

The answer to last week's meta, Romantic Foreplay, is now posted on the Meta Solutions page. Also, remember that there was another meta, That's the Spirit!, posted a few days ago. The solution to that one will be up next Wednesday.

Surprise Puzzle!

I know I said that I wouldn't be back until Friday, but I was inspired by the puzzling atmosphere of the ACPT to cook up another puzzle. By the way, it was nice to see so many of you in Stamford. I managed to at least briefly catch up with most solvers and constructors that I had met at past tourneys as well as meet a whole schwack of wonderful puzzlers whom I had never had the pleasure to talk to before. Anyway, I'll still be back on Friday with the solution to Romantic Foreplay, but for now enjoy another meta called "That's the Spirit!" I'll post the solution to this one a week from this very minute (give or take a few hundred minutes).

The meta answer is something I used to make this puzzle

More words, crossed and otherwise, next week.

That's the Spirit! (PDF)

That's the Spirit! (PUZ)