The answer is DEPART The corresponding square is GO by Chris Morse That Which We Call a Rose by Chris Morse This letter features in it (reasonably prominently) 12 eponyms, which are words that are derived from people's names. Specifically, these twelve are from a small subset where the word is an exact spelling of the person's surname (with the 's' on bloomer because pants are often though of in the plural). There are other famous ones such as leotard, boycott, shrapnel, etc. Once you find the location of the twelve words, if you read the FIRST initials of the people from whence the word came, it spells out: "Answer: DEPART" Thus, the solution to this puzzle is Depart. Bloomers - Amelia Jenks Bloomer Melba toast - (Dame) Nellie Melba (well, that's her stage name, her real name was Helen Mitchell, but we are working only with the Melba root) Maverick - Samuel Maverick Lynch - William Lynch Silhouette - Etienne de Silhouette Guppy - R. J. Lechmere Guppy Douglas fir - David Douglas Southern blot - Edwin M. Southern Hooligan - Patrick Hooligan Angstrom - Anders J. Angstrom Diesel - Rudolf Diesel Crapper - Thomas Crapper (and yes, he is a real person and turn-of-the-centry British ceramic manufacturer)