Use the Wordle-style clues to identify the five-letter meta answer. Green = Right letter, right place. Yellow = Right letter, wrong place. Black = not in solution.
Strip ___: locations you might visit to get your pumpkin 1A latte from Starbucks -
7A
Novelist George (born Mary Ann Evans) who wrote "Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it. And if I were a bird I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns" -
8A
"Why don't you make like a tree and ___?" -
9A
Earth ___: fall fashion palette -
Verticali
1D
Little fish
2D
Diet eschewing comfort foods
3D
From Troy
4D
Pumpkin 1A ingredient
5D
___ Park, Colorado: vacation destination that's gorgeous in autumn
Screw U, that's why