That would negate your 4-corners answer, because then two of those corners could be any of the JOHNYOKO letters we felt like placing there -- it wouldn't have to be "KO" in the bottom corners.None of them. The letters in the highlighted boxes are the only letters on the grid that are not part of a word.
WGKO
I would say horizontallyDoes the 9-letter word fit horizontally or vertically?
Pretty sure I have all the clues from within the box, but stuck after this clue for anything relevant to the grid. Any further tips, Nigel? I'm sitting belonely...!Now answer on line two...
Before you gave this clue, I had multiple ways to solve the puzzle -- but was always missing a different one word in each of those solutions. Now with this clue, combined with your other clues so far (which some matched my previous solutions), I'm only finding one way to solve the puzzle -- and that now makes two words missing from it (a medium and a small word.) I could fit the small word, but it also would need to share a letter with the medium word, and there aren't enough spaces. Also, I see no use for the open space 3-up from the bottom right corner given your previous clues.
I'm sorry you feel that wayBefore you gave this clue, I had multiple ways to solve the puzzle -- but was always missing a different one word in each of those solutions. Now with this clue, combined with your other clues so far (which some matched my previous solutions), I'm only finding one way to solve the puzzle -- and that now makes two words missing from it (a medium and a small word.) I could fit the small word, but it also would need to share a letter with the medium word, and there aren't enough spaces. Also, I see no use for the open space 3-up from the bottom right corner given your previous clues.
This is to say, for me at least, all of these clues have ended up putting me farther behind overall, and painted more into an unsolvable corner than I previously was. Those highlighted boxes that we virtually can't use now for whatever random reason, besides being forced to fill them with overall unhelpful letters either way, turns a puzzle I could have had finished weeks ago into a frustrating, anxiety-filled, not fun compulsion.
I'm sure the admins will help you. This is supposed to be fun, yes. 
One of the letters needs to share three different words. That is why there is limited options of where those words can be placed. Other words also need to share letters, limiting where they can be placed as well.
"Answers fit in all directions."
