Each of the clues on the left side clues a word that starts with PRO or CON. When you remove the prefix from those words, they form new words that are clued by the words on the right. Index the words without CON/PRO by the numbers next to the right clues. However, as clued by the flavor text, the PRO words are indexed forwards and the CON words are indexed backwards. Put in the order of the left-hand clues, the indexed letters spell the answer WIND CHILL FACTOR.
Left-Hand Clue | Left Answer | Right Clue | Right Answer | Index | Answer |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. Mathematician John known for his Game of Life" | CONWAY | Street | WAY | 3 | W |
2. Inner sense of what's morally right or wrong | CONSCIENCE | Subject | SCIENCE | 5 | I |
3. Gas used for grilling | PROPANE | Window | PANE | 3 | N |
4. Talk down to | CONDESCEND | Drop | DESCEND | 1 | D |
5. Sidewalk material | CONCRETE | Island | CRETE | 5 | C |
6. Comedy band "Flight of the ___" | CONCHORDS | Triads | CHORDS | 5 | H |
7. Makes money | PROFITS | Tantrums | FITS | 2 | I |
8. Side view of someone's face | PROFILE | Document | FILE | 3 | L |
9. Wii or PlayStation 5, e.g. | CONSOLE | Fish | SOLE | 2 | L |
10. Bewilderment | CONFUSION | Combination | FUSION | 6 | F |
11. British police officer | CONSTABLE | Barn | STABLE | 4 | A |
12. Manitoba or Ontario, e.g. | PROVINCE | Vaughn | VINCE | 4 | C |
13. Sit-in, for example | PROTEST | Quiz | TEST | 4 | T |
14. Part of an atom's nucleus | PROTON | Weight | TON | 2 | O |
15. Tool used in geometry class | PROTRACTOR | Vehicle | TRACTOR | 7 | R |