The meta answer is the five-letter word that should go in the missing ???? of the grid. It's up to you to figure out whether this grid is missing its top row, right column, bottom row, or left column, as well as what word should go there.
Aaaannnndddd THAT'S A WRAP on the "Off the Grid" series of mini-metapuzzles! At least for now. As with the CrossWordles from a couple years ago, FIFTY seemed like a good number to end at, but I'm not ruling out the possibility of making more in the future. For now I'm going to see if I can come up with a new mini-metapuzzle type to publish every week. There may be a little bit of a break, but stay tuned!
Thank you so much for solving these puzzles over the last 50 weeks and for all your nice comments. :)
Thanks! I can't wait to see what I come up with either lol. I could definitely keep going with this series for longer, but it felt like time for a change. And I updated that clue - thanks! (I think I updated it successfully... it takes a minute to see the change on the published grid.)
thank you so much for this series of metapuzzles! these were the first metapuzzles i've ever done--thank you for making some really accessible metapuzzles for beginners :)