Off the Grid 30: If It Fits (meta)
◆ · By damefox · Published 2023-11-05T17:00:23.966Z
Meta Prompt
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.
Checking for previous play data...
1A
Gone, like Halloween candy
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Across
- 1AGone, like Halloween candy
- 6ARecurring antagonist in "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" played by Paul Welsh
- 7AMad scene
- 8ALiterary Irene
- 9AWith "The," band led by Jim Morrison
Down
- 1D"Don't ___ ..." (beginning of a slogan for Glad)
- 2D"But I'm stuck inside the wheels of ___ / Wishing I was rolling back to you" (Tanya Tucker lyric)
- 3DVerdi opera based on a Shakespeare play (note TH doesn't exist in Italian)
- 4DSurface layer
- 5DSteps over the threshold