The answer is ALIOTH The corresponding square is house puzzle by Dave Savitt and Kiran Kedlaya Giant Star by Dave Savitt The answers to the clues form seven pairs like so: Gallo/olla Oratory/rotary Lahore/O'Hare Idaho/Doha Aromas/Ramos Talon/Olan Hobart/abort That is, in each pair, you take one word, drop the first letter, and interchange an "a" and an "o" to get the second word. You put the seven pairs in the only order in which those dropped letters spell a word and you get GOLIATH ("giant"). Do the same operation to that and you get the answer ALIOTH ("star").