Location: School of Fish
Depth: 282

Solution to Siamese Quintuplets

by halftime and Sonia Jaffe

Answer: ELITE

This is a very tiny Siamese Twins crossword puzzle, except that each entry has five clues instead of just two. So it's really Siamese Quintuplets.

Here is the full list of clues and answers:

1 Across
AMY - Actress who once portrayed Hillary opposite Tina
BAS - ___-relief
COP - Robber's counterpart
DST - Biannual clock adjustment not performed in AZ
ESE - Dir. from Random Hall to the Green Building

3 Across
ANN - George Michael's sometime girlfriend on Arrested Development
TEA - It might be black, white, or green
PLY - Layer
DYE - Indigo, for one
MAO - Card game with unspoken rules

1 Down
ASA - Words in a simile
BET - "Ya wanna ___?"
CAP - Nickname for Steve Rogers
DID - Performed
ELM - Street with Diesel and Anna's

2 Down
YEN - Currency in modern-day 2-Down
SKA - Precursor to reggae
PRY - Be nosy
TSE - When doubled, an African fly
EDO - Tokyo, once

Figure out how they fit together to get these five grids:

AMY
S E
ANN

BAS
E K
TEA

COP
A R
PLY

DST
I S
DYE

ESE
L D
MAO

The ordering is provided by the upper-left squares; each one contains a different letter from A to E. Furthermore, for each grid there is a single letter that can be placed in the center square to complete common English words in both directions. Read these letters in order to get the answer, ELITE.