Solution to Plus or Minus
This is a crossword puzzle in which some letters, instead of being added to the word so far like normal, are subtracted in one direction. For example, AILS is spelled C A (-C) I L S.
| Across | Answer | Down | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Suffers from illness (4) | AILS | 1. Word with special or display (4) | CASE |
| 7. Pope John Paul II or Marie Curie, e.g. (4) | POLE | 2. Advanced H.S. lab class (2 4) | APCHEM |
| 8. Download without permission, in a way (6) | SCRAPE | 3. It was first transplanted in 1905 (6) | CORNEA |
| 9. Alternative to the other thing? (4) | THAT | 4. Like 1080p video (2 2) | IN HD |
| 10. High schooler or eighth grader, perhaps, but usually not a sixth grader (4) | TEEN | 5. It’s part of a building in English but it’s part of a sandwich in Italian (4) | PANE |
| 11. Like a mafia man (4) | MADE | 6. Bristle (6) | SEETHE |
Filling in the grid, we get:
Taking the letters that are minus in one direction, and reading in row-major order, we get CALANTHE.