The clues can be paired up such that the answer to one, when the first phoneme is deleted, gives the answer to the other (like "affair" and "fare" or "cod" and "odd" in the puzzle introduction).
| Kind of gastropod | ABALONE | BOLOGNA | Lunch meat option |
| Part of a sundial | GNOMON | OMEN | Real-life foreshadowing |
| Buttercup's counterpart | TRIGGER | RIGOR | Thoroughness |
| Look | APPEAR | PEER | Baron |
| Camera brand | NIKON | ICON | Symbol |
| It's made out of blocks | IGLOO | GLUE | What you may be labeled after insulting a child |
| Brazen girl | MINX | INKS | Emulates Karl Story |
| Oppenheimer's field | ATOMICS | TOM MIX | Actor in old Westerns: 2 wds. |
| Engine noise | VROOM | RHEUM | Cold symptom |
| Watergate figure: 2 wds. | JOHN DEAN | ONDINE | Giraudoux play |
| Tension | UNEASE | KNEES | They're required for genuflection |
| Type of metamorphic rock | GNEISS | ICE | Granita ingredient |
| A "Colgate Comedy Hour" host: 2 wds. | EDDIE CANTOR | DECANTER | Wine vessel |
| Mystery author: 2 wds. | REX STOUT | X'D OUT | Like some words meant to be deleted: 2 wds. |
| Publish | ISSUE | SHOE | Comic strip bird |
| Fictional planet | KRYPTON | RIPPED ON | Made fun of, slangily: 2 wds |
If you then read the phonemes in the order of the clue answers from which the phonemes have been deleted, you get the clue "Antonym of generic". The antonym of "generic" is "specific"; deleting the first sound from that gives you the final answer, PACIFIC.
Training:
[Insert details of training clueing here.] In the 2002 Mystery Hunt, the property PACIFIC corresponded to the puzzle answer HAWAIIAN (see the hacking runaround answer). The trained answer is HAWAIIAN.