Do You Give Up?

Nice aha moment! Of course, here in Oz these things are "Give Way" signs! :-)

Thank you, I enjoyed it!

Fun puzzle and meta to solve - thanks!

Woah. Very cool. I'm fairly surprised I managed to stumble onto this answer... I didn't pick up on any of the hints in the clues, I just used one of the meta techniques I've been regularly trying recently. I pop each letter of the title into the "Find" box, and see if anything weird jumps out at me. Sure enough... there's a weirdly small number of Os in the puzzle, and they're symmetrically located, and they make an upside down triangle. At that point, I remembered the stop sign clue, and- voila- YIELD! Lucky for me, O was part of the title... I'm pretty sure that wasn't part of your intended meta solving experience, I was just supposed to get there with the "connect the dots" clue. Oh well... I'll take a W any way I can get it! LOL. Thanks DrTom!

Why pay attention to "titles"?

Great job, Dr. Tom

Got it, but only with some fairly hard shoves. Clever when you finally see it. Maddingly frustrating when you don't. Thanks for the art project!

I literally connected the dots and almost submitted “medial triangle” (there are 6 dots?!) - but then followed instructions: look at title, look at clues. YIELD!!

I was in the midst of grading papers, so I had to 41D solving until I had time to focus. It took me a minute to sign on.

Finally connected the dots… after playing around with all the “U”s and ways “UP” ( because of the the title …do “YOU” give “UP”) . Making it harder than it was, as usual! Thanks, DrTom!

LOL my failure to solve this one until now is funny for reasons I'll mention later. Once the nudges pointed me to the shortage of Os I immediately thought to connect them, but then I got stuck. So I wound up creating various patterns by connecting them in different ways, but nothing clicked, so I needed the Jeopardy shove to get there. Seems like I should have realized it without that, but I'm bad at grid art ones.

If anyone is wondering about he BONUS NUDGE and did not watch Jeopardy, the Double Jeopardy $800 question under INVEST was: Income from your investments or a triangular street sign. I think they are tapping into the Muggle site because on Monday they had a category "Finish the Malaprop"

Very clever! I usually do letter analysis but I didn't notice anything odd about the O's until the hint. Before that I was focused on the "up" part of the title which was seemingly supported by the grid (stop up, dug up, rig up, etc.), and also the preponderance of U's (explainable by another vowel being limited!). I even tried to "connect the dots" with the U's, which in retrospect, why didn't it occur to me to try that with the O's? Duh, me :-)

Thanks for the nudges!

Another one here who got stuck on the U's and P's in the grid and the mentions of "up" in the clues. Also thought INFER was the important word in the grid, so I finally (post nudge #1) was able to infer the sign from the shape. Thanks, DrTom!

DuckDuckGo behaved terribly on this one. I realized after the first nudge that we were dealing with the meaning of an inverted triangle, but I couldn't find a suitable match up for "inverted triangle", nor even a match up for "inverted red triangle" (courtesy of the last nudge)*. It wasn't until Dr. Tom shoved me via PM that I was looking for a traffic sign that meant a synonym for DEFER - only then did did I conclude that I was likely looking for a YIELD sign, which I was then able to confirm when I entered a search for "traffic sign red triangle" and found an appropriate picture with the caption "Yield Sign".

Very aggravating process that unfortunately took the fun out of solving an ingenious puzzle by Dr. Tom.

*DuckDuckGo was happy to provide multiple matches for a math operation sign, and later on to link to inverted red triangle as the Nazi concentration camp badge for political prisoners, but that was about it.

Finally got it with the nudges. With connect the dots, I was thinking Braille, but I couldn't "see" anything with that approach.