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Five words hold L second and T third, and two of them make up one of the most confused pairs in English.
An ALTAR is a raised table in a place of worship, and to ALTER something is to change it. They sound identical, they differ by one letter, and writers mix them up constantly.
ULTRA is ordinary vocabulary meaning extreme or beyond, and it works as a noun as well as the prefix most people know. ALTOS is the plural of alto, the singing voice or the instrument.
ALTHO is a shortened spelling of although. It turns up in informal and older American writing, and it is the one entry here that looks like a typing error but is not.
Five letters appear in the fourth box across five words, one apiece. The fourth letter alone identifies the answer, which is about as clean as a pattern gets.
The noun ALTAR ends in AR, like the noun pillar. The verb ALTER ends in ER, like the verbs enter and offer.
It appears in word lists and in informal writing, but most editors would change it to although. Treat it as valid for games rather than for prose.
ALTER or ALTAR, since they cover the commonest letters. Whichever you pick, the other stays live until you test the fourth box.
The second highest voice part, and also instruments pitched in that range. ALTOS covers both senses.
Zero of the five do. No letter appears twice anywhere in this group.