Solution to Plus One
Each clue can be answered by a short word. There are two sets of clues, each containing two columns. The answers in the right column of each set each can be formed by adding one letter to an answer from the left column.
Answers to first (left) set of clues:
| Left column clue | Left column answer | Corresponding right column clue | Corresponding right column answer |
| Friend or helper | ALLY | Combination of metals | ALLOY |
| Ship with three or more masts | BARQUE | Ship with three or more masts | BAROQUE |
| Lightning or a football play | BLITZ | Pancake often filled with cheese | BLINTZ |
| Indicates insertion | CARET | Textile floor covering | CARPET |
| Fishes with nutritional oil | CODS | Female college students | COEDS |
| Something you turn | CORNER | One who examines dead bodies | CORONER |
| Result of a meteorite or a volcano | CRATER | Makers | CRAFTER |
| Precedes rigor mortis | DEATH | Severe lack | DEARTH |
| Caused a depression in a surface | DENTED | Marked or indicated | DENOTED |
| Small boat or type of fish | DORY | Money brought by a bride | DOWRY |
| Expressing excessive fondness | DOTING | Doing this to the I's | DOTTING |
| Cereal or wood | GRAIN | Often made of potatoes | GRATIN |
| Being dejected | MOPING | Cleaning the floor | MOPPING |
| Parts or portions | PIECES | Punctures | PIERCES |
| Costs | PRICES | Albert and Charming | PRINCES |
| Type of eye on TV | QUEER | A Brit who stands in line | QUEUER |
| Old, especially bread | STALE | Essential or wire fastener | STAPLE |
| Sour or a loose woman | TART | Fortune telling deck | TAROT |
Answers to second (right) set of clues:
| Left column clue | Left column answer | Corresponding right column clue | Corresponding right column answer |
| Official material | CANON | Artillery weapon | CANNON |
| Smart or witty | CLEVER | Meat or June | CLEAVER |
| One who wants to lose | DIETER | Contains two RCOOR' | DIESTER |
| George's foe | DRAGON | One of the light cavalry | DRAGOON |
| They keep property in the family | ENTAILS | Innards | ENTRAILS |
| Relating to interior of the ear | ENTOTIC | Floaters are this type of effect | ENTOPTIC |
| Working with metal | FORGING | Going without | FORGOING |
| Kind | GENTLE | Non-Jew | GENTILE |
| Result of a population inversion | LASING | Enduring | LASTING |
| Bereavement | LOSS | Aeolian silt | LOESS |
| Misfolded protein | PRION | Penitentiary | PRISON |
| Colbert's Jansen | TEK | Journey | TREK |
| Thanksgiving meal | TURKEY | Ready to use out of the box | TURNKEY |
| Springlike | VERNAL | Barbital brand name | VERONAL |
| Becoming larger | WAXING | Bird in first line of "Pale Fire" | WAXWING |
The answers from the left column are in alphabetical order. The answers from the right column are not initially in alphabetical order: sorting these alphabetically and then taking only the additional letter by which these differ from the left column answers gives a phrase. The phrase resulting from the first set of clues is
WORN ON FOOT OR PUPPET
The resulting phrase from the second set of clues is
ANSWER OR OPTIONS
Again, the answer on the right can be formed by adding one letter to the left answer. The answer to the left clue is SOCK, and the answer to the right clue is STOCK, which is also the answer to the puzzle.