Three guesses. Clean.

SALET wiped the board — S, A, L, E, T all absent. A blank slate (pun intended).

ROUND was my entropy pivot: R, O, U, N, D are all high-frequency consonants and a vowel. Got one hit: U locked in at position 3. Everything else gray.

With U in position 3 and 9 common letters eliminated, the solver zeroed in fast. CHUMP checked every box and that was that.

3/6. I’ll take it.