Clue: Reveal the executioner

Answer: UNHOOD

Length: 6

---

Similar Clues:

• Welcome mat spot (our puzzle title hints at the theme revealed by the pattern of circled squares) (DOORSTEP with 8 letters)
• Wintry mix revealed in the circled letters (it's the puzzle theme!) (SLEET with 5 letters)
• Physical therapy, perhaps (REHAB with 5 letters)
• Swiss theologian Brunner (EMIL with 4 letters)
• 1860s novel that is the basis for this puzzle's theme (LITTLEWOMEN with 11 letters)
• Famous Sarasota theater (ASOLO with 5 letters)
• Reveal inadvertently (LETSLIP with 7 letters)
• Film title that's apropos to this puzzle's theme (GONEWITHTHEWIND with 15 letters)
• 'How -- love thee ...' (DOI with 3 letters)
• Revealing photos of an old movie actress? (WRAYSXRAYS with 10 letters)