Answer: PLOT
PLOT is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 194 times.
Referring Clues:
- Scheme
 - Novelist's need
 - It sometimes thickens
 - Novel creation
 - It's followed by moviegoers
 - Cabal's plans
 - Basic thread
 - Parcel of land
 - Paranoiac's worry
 - Mark on a graph
 - "The ___ thickens"
 - Garden area
 - An author might give it away
 - Novel's essence
 - Story line
 - Represent graphically
 - Paranoid's fear
 - Novel idea
 - Lead-up to a coup
 - It often thickens
 - Bit of intrigue
 - Connive
 - With 38-Down, common device on "The Twilight Zone"
 - It may thicken
 - Makings of a coup
 - One to grow on?
 - Storyline
 - It might consist of a 19-Across
 - Cook up
 - Stove feature
 - Churchyard unit
 - Coup start
 - Underhanded plan
 - Novel idea?
 - Surface for gardening
 - Novel necessity
 - Page-turner's asset
 - Whodunit component
 - Piece of property
 - Mastermind's scheme
 - Conspirator's creation
 - Schemer's creation
 - It may have a twist
 - Subject for a conspiracy theorist
 - Cemetery purchase
 - Find the coordinates of
 - Secret plan
 - Map
 - Conspiracy
 - Screenwriter's concern
 - It usually thickens
 - Cabal's creation
 - Schemer's hatching
 - Whodunit's essence
 - Mark on a map
 - Secret scheme
 - Whodunit kernel
 - Be scheming
 - Small area of ground
 - Central story line
 - Conspire
 - Novelist's concern
 - Schemer's conception
 - It might thicken
 - It thickens after a while
 - It may be hatched
 - Movie's story line
 - Builder's site
 - Flower bed
 - Conspiracy theorist's subject
 - Villain's creation
 - Book thickener?
 - Intrigue
 - Novel underpinning
 - Whodunit essence
 - Something to build on
 - This thickens, on Broadway
 - Novel essence
 - Land area
 - Collude
 - Ruse
 - One often thickens on stage
 - One often thickens on stage
 - Prepare for a coup
 - Cook up a scheme
 - Conspiracy theorist's worry
 - Book basis
 - Novel need
 - Whodunit foundation
 - Whodunit basis
 - Basis for a whodunit
 - Scenario
 - Contrive
 - Whodunit blueprint
 - Conspire (against)
 - Machinate
 - Basis of a novel
 - Map out
 - Thing to cook up
 - It's hatched
 - Garden ___
 - A bad one may contain holes
 - Map (out)
 - Script essence
 - Home's land
 - Whodunit feature
 - Movie's storyline
 - Novel creation?
 - Author's need
 - Novel feature
 - A good one will thicken
 - Novelist's notion
 - Burial unit
 - Garden
 - Cemetery piece
 - *Story line for "The Hunt for Red October"?
 - Burial place
 - Essence of a novel
 - Basis of a whodunit
 - Piece of land
 - Bit of land
 - Whodunit storyline
 - Evil scheme
 - What paranoid people see everywhere
 - Whodunit story line
 - Map a course
 - What cabalists do
 - Plan a mutiny
 - Author's concern
 - What a spoiler might spoil
 - Hidden plan
 - Plan
 - Building site
 - Cook up a conspiracy
 - Cemetery unit
 - Novel's story line
 - It might be twisted or misted
 - Place to build
 - Novel's thread
 - Whodunit skeleton
 - Conspirators' plan
 - Burial site
 - Novel staple
 - What a spoiler may spoil
 - "The ___ thickens!"
 - Screenwriter's concept
 - Connive secretly
 - Boy gets/loses/gets girl, e.g.
 - Devious scheme
 - Narrative feature
 - Thing in a cemetery or novel
 - One may be hatched
 - Cabal
 - What a spoiler spoils
 - Film advancer
 - Cunning scheme
 - Moviegoers follow it
 - What a cabal cooks up
 - It reaches six feet under
 - Screenwriter's concoction
 - Word before "hole" or "twist"
 - Writer's concern
 - Novelist's starting point
 - Cabal's contrivance
 - *The outcome of a story might hinge on one
 - Novelist's storyline
 - Novelist's framework
 - Literary framework
 - Make a secret plan
 - Complex plan
 - Narrative structure
 - Scheme secretly
 - Need for building a house or story
 - Kind of device used in filmmaking
 - Backbone of a novel?
 - Screenwriter's creation
 - Hatched plan
 - Space for a vegetable garden
 - Story arc
 - What's spelled out, appropriately, after mapping the coordinates indicated by this puzzle's circled letters
 - Gunpowder ___ (1605 English conspiracy)
 - What a book review might spoil
 - Film's story line
 - Twists can thicken it
 - Thing that may have twists and turns
 - Secretly plan
 - Heading in most movies' Wikipedia pages
 - Story part that might have a twist
 - It might thicken or be full of holes
 - ___ twist (part of a story)
 - It might have a twist or hole
 - Sinister scheme
 - One might have a twist
 - One may thicken over time
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 11, 2025
 - LA Times - September 02, 2025
 - LA Times - May 09, 2025
 - LA Times - April 01, 2025
 - USA Today - March 26, 2025
 - USA Today - March 05, 2025
 - New York Times - February 23, 2025
 - LA Times - February 17, 2025
 - USA Today - January 30, 2025
 - New York Times - December 30, 2024
 - USA Today - September 10, 2024
 - New York Times - July 17, 2024
 - USA Today - July 16, 2024
 - USA Today - July 11, 2024
 - LA Times - June 23, 2024
 - LA Times - June 10, 2024
 - USA Today - May 23, 2024
 - New York Times - May 13, 2024
 - LA Times - January 25, 2024
 - New York Times - December 30, 2023
 
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