Line 1: I always open with yesterday's answer.
Line 2: Normally I will use my clues, which in this case means that I would use the letter E. In this case, I decided to knock-out two more vowels and three consonants. All I really accomplished was the elimination of some letters, but I picked up the R.
Line 3: I used the clues and found the I, as well as two more places where the E and R shouldn't go.
Line 4: Found all the locations for the letters I had so far.
Line 5: This could have been BRINE or PRICE so I went with the first one because PRICE seemed too common of a word.