(Meta-meta puzzle solution)

Meta-puzzle for Round 5

by Susan Glass

Monday the boss had a business dinner. The maitre d' seems to remember him. "Oh yes," he tells you, "He was here that night. Seemed to enjoy his food.

"I remember he had a table for two. He was talking talking with a business associate of some sort--a shady character, I can tell you. And he kept taking notes--well, we thought they were notes, but he left them behind and they turned out to be these puzzles. Also, on the back of the check, he wrote this..."

OCZCYOZX
ZHLKQNPJ
BSMJNRGN
TJNJNWPL
GIWXKOCW
QZCTMFRK


The answers are:

  1. GASHLYCRUMB
  2. BOYS
  3. HAWAIIAN
  4. CONSONANTS
  5. FLEA
  6. RHYMES
  7. INITIAL
  8. DOT
This breaks down into phrases which clue a set of letters: When the letters are shaded in on the grid (clued by "shady character") they form, in order: AN, TA, CI, DS. The answer is ANTACIDS.