Layers Answer #257

The hidden five-letter word behind the day’s Wordle-style lock.

The word the scrambled letters rearrange into.

Amber-colored liquor often served in a saloon

• WHIPFlexible tool swung to make a sharp cracking sound, often carried by a cowboy
• PIANOInstrument often found in an old saloon
• BUCKJump suddenly, as a horse might
• HAYDried grass fed to horses

Kitchen basin with a faucet

SINK — highlighted in the grid.