Hard One Word Wonder

Here are the clues in a more readable form:

ON THE GRID

1. ______ got mail!; from here to the target.
2. Hackneyed; forestall.
3. Singaporean Presidential residence;the colon in an analogy.
4. Florida Haven; galleria.
5. Pirate's sister who loved Paolo; Myanmar, once.
6. Inventor of Phantom Zone projector; concerning, about (archaic).
7. Cinematographer Jacques (Vive le Tour!); pre-Bunmei.
8. Type of cruelty or block; once again.
9. Perfervid; afflicts.

OFF THE GRID

- Henry & June's controversial pal.
- Necessitate.
- Blackleg; fink.
- Wang of gowns.
- Mrs. Peel's wheels.
- Shipping path.
- Life insurance type.
- Thick Japanese noodles.
- Ball position after a pool shot.

[1] Thanks for that, 'cause the image is hard to read!

yikes, I'm wearing out the internets here... only finding some

EDIT - I see what the second step is but with so much random searching needed, it's not fun anymore. I'll try again tomorrow.

I really don't want to do this puzzle. Does not sound fun at all... :P

Have some of the On The Grid words...and see how they work with Off The Grid, but...

Someone solved it.

Oh, PLEASE let them share!

I liked this puzzle! :-)

I think it _looks_ harder and scarier than it actually is. Once you start to see how the "Off the Grid" list works, it gets easier. And you don't have to answer every single clue to solve the puzzle-- once it starts filling in, you'll see where it's going (I never did fill in two Ons and one Off).

A l'il more help: the more-easily-Googlable answers from "Off the Grid" really helped me narrow down my answers for "On the Grid". And there's a really nice "Aha" moment at the end (or at least there was for me). :-)

[9] - I'm pretty sure I have it, TG sent...

Thanks, got it...

Rewarding puzzle, gst...

[10] right back atcha

Only 4 completions so far, where is the Easy puzzle tonight?

I'm stuck on the very last step. Can I TG someone?

To add to the guidance in [8] and [9], my test solvers got best results by working back and forth between the first two steps. Then as more becomes clear, it will fill in more rapidly.

[10], thanks.

[13], repeat the mechanism.

[13] tg rec'd and responded-to!

Phew, got it! Thank you gst and epaz!

This was a good puzzle (hard, but good). It would have been a great puzzle if less research was required.

The last step was just mean.

That was tough! Thanks, Philana, for reminding me to go back to admire the forest after I chopped down the first set of trees.

wow, quite a puzzle! Thank goodness I was willing to go a little off-center for this.

Sorry about all the very unusual words. I tried to make easily searchable clues.

Easiest to find should be:
on the grid -
3. (1st)
4. (2nd)
5. (both)
6. (1st)
7. (both)

off the grid -
1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 8th, 9th (in the order listed)

Start there and work back and forth. Then follow the Instructions.

30th, and yeah, the last step was just a little cruel. But overall a lovely puzzle.

Can't figure out 2, 8 , or 9 for On. I tried working backwards from some of the Offs and I still can't find things that fit.

For 2 I had to work backwards from the Off. Dictionary definitions for 2 helped. I'm stuck on 8 and 9 also. Too many choices and nothing matches up.

This one screams "no fun scavenger hunt" to me. Pass.

I've got 2 and 9, but still can't get 8...even though by process of elimination I should have the Off that goes with it...unless maybe my last Off is wrong. I think I see what I'm supposed to do once I've got them all, but it's still not clicking without 8. Any salt for 8? Please?

Okay, to fill in the grid I just need the 1st half of 8. However, even without that I have a long list of stuff that seems like it's supposed to lead me to an answer...but isn't. So I could use help with the rest of 8, and some insight into what I'm supposed to do with the stuff I have after steps 1 and 2.

You solved this puzzle in 12 hours, 28 minutes and 18 seconds and were the 36th Tanga member to solve it.

Woot! :)

[22],[23]: lines 2, 8 and 9 use these "off the grid" clues -

2. Ball position after a pool shot
8. Shipping path
9. Necessitate (correct answer is "ENTAIL")

[26] Follow the instruction "Off the Grid" just as literally as you did "On the Grid."

When you have a two-word answer, to get to one word, apply the puzzle mechanism one more time. The heart symbol should act as a convincer for this step.

The gray line at the bottom is an anomaly; ignore.

Whew! Took a lot of effort to get this one, but I guess that's appropriate for a HOWW. [28] helped a lot.

I'm stuck on the last step. Have completed grid, and have all words "off the grid". I'm not making sense of the salt in [28] to follow the instructions. What do I do with the 9 off grid words to make a two-word solution?

[30] Read what's left after you remove the "off the grid" words.

grrrrrr.... what about Marvin Hamlisch? 1944 vs 1931. Boo to ambiguous puzzles. :(

[32] The superlative in the clue refers to the person's age when they achieved this feat. I see how you -could- interpret it the other way, but I don't think that's what the phrasing normally means. Consider the "youngest person to climb Mt. Washington." I am younger, having been born later, but my climbing the mountain at the age of 36 doesn't take away his record as the youngest to do the climb.

Glad you stuck with it that far, though!

You solved this puzzle in 1 day, 10 hours, and 19 minutes and were the 65th Tanga member to solve it. You earned 39 points for solving this.

Given that I am only 65th 35 hours after the puzzle was posted, the solution notes contain the understatement of the day:
Probably should be a "Hard" OWW due to several unusual words that will need research.