Arts and Crafts Solution
How It Works
Solve the crossword clues. They are sorted alphabetically in the Across and Down sections. All are four letter words:
ACROSS | ANSWER
- ____ vera, used as sunburn relief | ALOE
- Another word for a car | AUTO
- X and Y types of this exist in math | AXIS
- To revise text | EDIT
- Where to run in baseball | HOME
- Element Fe | IRON
- Short name for island | ISLE
- Gold covering or uncool | LAME
- The 40 days before easter | LENT
- Gram is a unit of this | MASS
- An average, or bad tempered | MEAN
- It could be happy, sad, worried, excited | MOOD
- Type of bread used for gyros | PITA
- Part of a plant between roots and flower | STEM
- Gait of a horse between walk and canter | TROT
- A bad habit | VICE
DOWN | ANSWER
- In addition | ALSO
- Smallest elemental matter | ATOM
- In danger, like a situation or straits | DIRE
- Send out | EMIT
- Currency in the EU | EURO
- How you might live the wrong way? | EVIL
- An image, picture, or representation | ICON
- Mutilate, disfigure, or wound severely | MAIM
- Algebra, calculus or trigonometry | MATH
- Table mountain | MESA
- May be musical or written | NOTE
- Found on the outside of a strawberry | SEED
- Sharp hit to the face | SLAP
- Performed alone | SOLO
- A type of 2-across that you might hire | TAXI
- A place to sleep while camping | TENT
Next, interns would determine that none of the yellow or green strips have the crossword answers on them, but the letters for the words did appear on the strips, and that they could be woven together to create the crossword clue answers in four separate 4x4 grids.
Once the weaving is complete, interns can read the hidden letters underneath the woven strips. Each square gives a clue to its orientation in a larger 8x8 grid, while the second half of each reads out together, "NOW READ CENTER OF FOUR SQUARES".
The center four squares of the 8x8 grid is the final answer.
Solution
ALMS