This crossword has the names of twenty-eight professions hidden within its grid, each with an extra letter added. To aid in identifying the words, the blanks below the grid fit the names of those occupations in alphabetical order. They are:
- ACCOUNTANT
- ACTOR
- ARCHITECT
- AUTHOR
- BAKER
- BARBER
- BOXER
- CARPENTER
- CASHIER
- CATERER
- COACH
- CODER
- DIRECTOR
- ECONOMIST
- ELECTRICIAN
- ENGINEER
- MECHANIC
- NURSE
- PHARMACIST
- PHOTOGRAPHER
- PILOT
- PROFESSOR
- PROGRAMMER
- SINGER
- SWIMMER
- TEACHER
- TRADER
- TRANSLATOR
The words are located in the grid like this:
From top to bottom, the extra letters in the answers spell out THEE ANXSWER ITS RERSCUE WORKEAR. Each of the words in this phrase have an additional letter which can be removed to give the phrase THE ANSWER IS RESCUE WORKER. If anybody got stuck trying to complete this step, the unused letters in the grid spell out READ EXTRAS THEN IGNORE EXTRA, instructing solvers to read the extra letters, then leave out EXTRA from the words. Whether solvers needed that extra hint or not, the answer is RESCUE WORKER.