The clues resolve to words that can be found in the Vcrcs manual, which is alluded to in the flavour text:
| Clue | Answer | Directions |
|---|---|---|
| “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” genre | western | N NE E SE S |
| Dawn sight people wake up early to watch | sunrise | N NE E SE S |
| Green with envy | jealous | E |
| What cheaters will never do | prosper | E |
| Foils, like an evil plan | thwarts | N NE E SE S |
| Going from one limit to another | ranging | N NE E |
| Mass divided by volume, to a physicist | density | N |
| Forge, like a document | falsify | S |
| Bic product used on candles | lighter | NE SE SW W NW |
| Sleeping place | bedroom | SE SW W |
If we follow the indicated cardinal directions from each word and highlight the words we land on, we obtain the following pattern:
| destiny | control | refresh | grouped | wedging | summary | kitchen | teacher | concern | section |
| similar | western | dropper | checker | xeroses | sunrise | abolish | harvest | protest | shallow |
| plotted | deafens | colored | aroused | unsling | holiday | dictate | dribble | retreat | episode |
| crashed | crazily | silvers | usurped | witcher | jealous | village | wizards | prosper | recycle |
| pounced | nonfood | imblaze | dryable | swiftly | mention | rubbish | realize | collect | surgeon |
| gearbox | schnozz | passion | freshen | society | passive | archive | shelter | harmful | freedom |
| papayas | thwarts | railway | teapots | ravines | density | provide | diagram | lighter | general |
| upriver | editors | mingled | ransoms | prairie | balance | applied | history | calorie | realism |
| liquids | validly | varying | wickers | isolate | falsify | painter | mixture | bedroom | dilemma |
| skylike | ranging | simplex | gallied | missile | posture | highway | prevent | bracket | project |
In a manner similar to the gimmick of the Vcrcs module, a word can be obtained by filling in the missing information. The flavour text further hints that columns 1, 5 and 9 are the only ones that need filling in.
| destiny | control | refresh | grouped | wedging | summary | kitchen | teacher | concern | section |
| similar | western | dropper | checker | xeroses | sunrise | abolish | harvest | protest | shallow |
| plotted | deafens | colored | aroused | unsling | holiday | dictate | dribble | retreat | episode |
| crashed | crazily | silvers | usurped | witcher | jealous | village | wizards | prosper | recycle |
| pounced | nonfood | imblaze | dryable | swiftly | mention | rubbish | realize | collect | surgeon |
| gearbox | schnozz | passion | freshen | society | passive | archive | shelter | harmful | freedom |
| papayas | thwarts | railway | teapots | ravines | density | provide | diagram | lighter | general |
| upriver | editors | mingled | ransoms | prairie | balance | applied | history | calorie | realism |
| liquids | validly | varying | wickers | isolate | falsify | painter | mixture | bedroom | dilemma |
| skylike | ranging | simplex | gallied | missile | posture | highway | prevent | bracket | project |
PALACE