On a remote Alaska beach strewn with dead walruses, an orphaned walrus calf that was still alive followed researchers all the way to their camp.
The answer is a telegram: who did it, what they did, then a three-word phrase for the thing itself. Say it out loud like a headline.
The grammar glue never makes the answer: On and a and with and an and that and was and still and all and the and way and to and their.
The answer starts with orphaned.
Then comes walrus. The last three words are one phrase, sitting together in the sentence.
No, though it can feel that way when your five lose. The game cuts the way newspaper subeditors cut. Words you can picture beat words you can't, so bronze statues beats six of them, because you can't picture six of anything. The result beats the process, so recovered beats searching. That one journalists call the inverted pyramid. And a word can only claim what the sentence actually said, which is why it can't wander over to a different noun. The reveal walks through every word and says why it lived or died.