Talk:A Very Bright Girl (Two of Jokers)/@comment-131.107.174.75-20180525182705

My guess is the answer is something like BEDSITTERS or BIGHITTERS on the grounds that the associated couplet is "Three in THIS are deemed unnecessary To leave supplies in one’s apothecary" and we expect the answer to extract an E, and we know the answer is likely entered into the 10 empty squares in the middle. BITTERS works for the supplies in one's apothecary, and there are not too many common words or phrases formable by inserting a trigram into BITTERS.