"Was your performance a success?"

HOWDITGO

Think of how you might casually ask a friend about the outcome of their presentation or show, using a slangy phrase that blends the words.

This clue plays on the casual phrase "how'd it go?"—a common way to ask if something, like a performance, went well. The answer "HOWDITGO" is a phonetic squish of those words, dropping the apostrophe and spaces to fit crossword style. It’s a straightforward example of how spoken language gets tweaked for puzzle answers, mimicking how people actually talk in real life.