MIT Mystery Hunt 2020/Storybook Pals

Storybook Pals was the metapuzzle of the round of the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt.

Puzzle Elements
Metapuzzle (Pure Meta) - The puzzle provides only a title and flavortext.

Flavortext - ''The children are quite cross at the shoddy condition of the Storybook Forest’s animatronics. What would improve them?''

Just Like the Others - All feeders to this puzzle have either 9 or 11 letters.

Hint in Flavortext - ''The children are quite cross at the shoddy condition of the Storybook Forest’s animatronics. What would improve them?''

Crossword (Criss Cross) - The feeders can be assembled such that they interlock in a crosshatch grid:

HALFSECTION L  S   R ALEUROMANCY F  T   H SOURCEFILES R  R   S SORRYIMLATE N  C   R NEWYEARSDAY

Positional Extraction - The grid is two entries short of a cross-hatch grid. Where the two entries would go is written the answer to this metapuzzle.

Asked and Answered - The answer to this metapuzzle answers a question about how Storybook Forest can improve its animatronics.