Plus or Minus
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| Keywords | Content |
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| start, letter | The six-letter entries can be filled into the grid as is. |
| start, square | The legend to the right of the grid says that of the 36 squares in the grid, 3 are of one type and 5 of another. The squares indicate what happens to across and down answers passing through them. |
| letter, short | The four-letter entries can also be finagled into the corresponding rows and columns, but with two extraneous letters. Some of these correspond to the 8 squares that have minuses. |
| square, minus | When an entry hits a plus as it enters a square, the letter in that square is appended to the entry as normal. When an entry hits a minus, the letter in that square is instead removed from earlier in the entry. This cancels out an earlier plus, accounting for the four-letter entries. |
| extract, minus | To extract, examine the 8 special squares. |
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| Across | Down |
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| 1. Suffers from illness (4) | 1. Word with special or display (4) |
| 7. Pope John Paul II or Marie Curie, e.g. (4) | 2. Advanced H.S. lab class (2 4) |
| 8. Download without permission, in a way (6) | 3. It was first transplanted in 1905 (6) |
| 9. Alternative to the other thing? (4) | 4. Like 1080p video (2 2) |
| 10. High schooler or eighth grader, perhaps, but usually not a sixth grader (4) | 5. It’s part of a building in English but it’s part of a sandwich in Italian (4) |
| 11. Like a mafia man (4) | 6. Bristle (6) |