Generating a 5x5 word square (with different words across and down, so not of the "Sator Arepo" variety) is already really hard for a human. I plugged the Wordle target word list into https://github.com/Quuxplusone/xword/blob/master/src/xword-f... to get a bunch of plausible squares like this:
SCALD
POLAR
ARTSY
CEASE
ERROR
But you want two word squares that can plausibly be clued together, which is (not impossible, but) difficult if matching entries aren't the same part of speech. For example, cluing "POLAR" together with "ARTSY" (both adjectives) seems likely more doable than cluing "POLAR" together with "LASSO" (noun or verb).Anyway, here's my attempt at a human solution, using the grid above — and another grid, which I'll challenge you to find from these clues. Hint: All but two of the ten pairs match, part-of-speech-wise.
1A. Remove the outer layer of, perhaps
2A. Region on a globe
3A. Like some movie theaters
4A. Command to a lawbreaker
5A. Rhyme for Tom Lehrer?
1D. ____yard (sometime sci-fi setting)
2D. It goes something like this: Ꮎ
3D. Feature of liturgy, often
4D. It's vacuous, in a sense
5D. Fino, vis-a-vis Pedro Ximénez