The answer is SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT The corresponding square is INCOME TAX by Roger Barkan This is an "Anguished English" puzzle, where each of the lines sounds pretty much like a common phrase. Well, except in each line, there's an extra word thrown in. Taking the extra words from consecutive lines forms a new Anguished English phrase. Every few lines produces a new second-level phrase. Both the first-level phrases and the second-level phrase share a common theme-- for example, te first four lines are all magazines. GNASHING (SUPPORT) ALGAE OKRA FAKE = National Geographic RITA STY (SILLY) JUST = Reader's Digest GODOT SKI PANG (STRAY) = Good Housekeeping GAUZE MOPE HOLLY TEN (DEAD) = Cosmopolitan (SUPPORT SILLY STRAY DEAD) = SPORTS ILLUSTRATED COKE (GOLF) OCEAN KNELL = Coco Chanel A STALE OTTER (INCLINE) = Estee Lauder (GOLF INCLINE) = CALVIN KLEIN (SOW) BUS IFFY COLANDER = Pacific Islander MEAD ELISE (FIRM) TURN = Middle Eastern YOU ROPE (ARROGANT) IAN = European (SOW FIRM ARROGNAT) = SOUTH AMERICAN ANTSY ATTIC LEEK (TREE) = Hanseatic League HACKS (POLLEN) HASP OURS = Axis Powers WORE (TAUNT) SOP ACT = Warsaw Pact (TREE POLLEN TAUNT) = TRIPLE ENTENTE (HAY) BANDIT ONYX KALE = pentatonic scale DIMES EGG (THIN) NURTURE = time signature WIN (OAT) DANCE DRUMMOND = wind instrument (HAY THIN OAT) = EIGHTH NOTE (THOUGH) FUSS CODA COMMA = Vasco Da Gama EMERY (WRYER) COVE ASP HOOCHIE = Amerigo Vespucci LEAVER (DOLL) AXON = Leif Ericson (THOUGH WRYER DOLL) = THOR HEYERDAHL (HEARSE) HAND RAH MUTTER = Andromeda SAD JITTERY (SUM) ASS = Sagittarius GROAN ABHOR HE (AGER) ALICE = Corona Borealis (HEARSE SUM AGER) = URSA MAJOR HASNT BARGAINS (BURN) HARDEN DEEP RAN SUPPLE = Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle SEND RIBBIT ALL (JULIO) FOURS = centripetal force I.D. (FACT) HELGA SLAW = Ideal Gas Law (BURN JULIO FACT) = BERNOULLI EFFECT RELEARN (NUMB) ALLEY SASS = real analysis LENNY URAL JABBER (BIRTH) = linear algebra DIVA RANGE ALEC (ERIE) WEIGH SHINS = differential calculus (NUMB BIRTH ERIE) = NUMBER THEORY LESS SAFE HEIR (AUNT) = laissez-faire FADER (RENEW) CALM PLEA = fait accompli (ANT RENEW) = ENTRE NOUS (MARVEL) HOUR DUCK HOSE ELL = Howard Cosell CREE SPERM (BIRD) INN = Chris Berman (MARVEL BIRD) = MARV ALBERT ALLAH (KNEE) FART WHIZZED = Oliver Twist MARRED INCHES ILL (COLA) WHIT = Martin Chuzzlewit DAFFY TICK HOPPER (SNEAK) FILLED = David Copperfield EBONIES HUSK ROUGE (ALBEE) = Ebeneezer Scrooge (KNEE COLA SNEAK ALBEE) = NICHOLAS NICKLEBY Once you've found all the second-level phrases, take the first letter from each word. You'll get "SICK SATEEN THUMB ENTENMANN", which is one last Angusihed English clue for the answer: SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT.