SOLUTION: NIGHT SHIFTANSWER: STAY SILENT
This puzzle presents the solver with crossword clues, but clue numbers are replaced with images of animatronics from the Five Nights at Freddy's game series. These particular animatronics all appear in the game Ultimate Custom Night, which features a wide cast of animatronics from several of the earlier games. The first "aha" in this puzzle is recognizing that these specific images are the icons used on the main menu screen; each crossword clue's answer can be written in the provided direction, starting at the given character's portrait.
Entering the answers in this way places a letter on each of the eight characters shown below the crossword clues; those letters spell out SAVETHEM, which is the name of a minigame in Five Nights at Freddy's 2. This minigame follows the character of Golden Freddy in the FNaF 2 iteration of the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza restaurant. The second "aha" of the puzzle is noticing that the crossword grid in the first part of the puzzle is structured exactly like the SAVETHEM map:
Each room of the SAVETHEM map can accordingly be assigned a letter. The last step of the puzzle is to identify the SAVETHEM rooms corresponding to the given FNaF 2 locations, tracing out the two paths. Following those paths and extracting the letters along those paths spells out the words STAY SILENT, which together form this puzzle's answer.
I cannot stand horror games. I don't mind suspense so much, but I have a bad time with jumpscares, so the Five Nights at Freddy's series has always been something I've avoided, though I've certainly learned a lot about these games from being as terminally online as I am. I still really wanted to find something to make a good FNaF puzzle from, and my fallback on grid-based puzzles led me to look into the arcade minigames; noticing that SAVETHEM's map would work pretty well as a crossword grid was such a great moment of inspiration, and using the UCN menu screen as the grid really put the icing on the cake for me.