Each clue can be answered with a word where one letter is used three times (and every other is unique). Furthermore, rows and columns pair according to tripled letter; in the table below, an asterisk marks the intersection of a row and column with the same tripled letter:
| praTcheTT | BoBBy | moLehiLL | crowDfunDeD | SubclaSS | jepHtHaH | |
| iLLegaL | 8 | 4 | 2* | 7 | 9 | 6 |
| kHrusHcHev | 1 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 7* |
| aDDenDum | 3 | 6 | 1 | 5* | 7 | 9 |
| BuBBles | 2 | 1* | 7 | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| odySSeuS | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 6* | 1 |
| aTTribuTe | 9* | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 5 |
The asterisked numbers are 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, and 9, with 3, 4, and 8 missing. Putting the tripled letters together in the order given by the asterisked numbers, with blanks for the missing numbers, yields BL??DSH?T. This completes uniquely with a tripled letter to the answer, BLOODSHOT.