(erratum 30 March 2026, 6:28 am Australia time: thanks everyone who noticed that i did a whoopsie)

One team is down by a whole bunch of points. Your job is to figure out exactly what the difference is.

Here's a Google Sheet you can copy, if that helps.

Across 1. With 6A, not doing better 6. (please see 1A) 9. Addis ____ 10. Honorific for a baronet 11. Discoverer of non-Euclidean geometry 12. "____ Drum," an R.E.M. tune (2 words) 15. SUV maker 16. Nickname of Tim Allen character 18. Expression of contentment 19. Fervid 20. Digits on W-9 21. Son of Nicholas II 25. Serbian 4WD APC 28. Very, very big 30. Ram's dam 31. Queen of Spain 32. Pronounce 34. His wife was salty 35. Large amounts of paper 36. Organic chemistry suffix 37. Beginning of, say, a syllable

Down 1. Repeated, a city in New South Wales 2. 25th President 3. Screenwriter Earl Mac ____ 4. Danger 2 network 5. 1993 Olympian, née Johnson 6. Family of Spider-Man enemies 7. His metal melts at 44 ºC 8. Set up (to take the fall) (for a crime or crimes) 13. Author Amy, born 1947 14. Social bug 17. Band that broke up in 1991 20. Upper house 21. Day 16 prompt 22. UK futures market 23. A Brontë 24. Element 40 25. Insulin-producing cells 26. "You ____" ("will pay for this later") (2 words) 27. 493 sazhen 29. Coin that can have Pope Francis on it 33. Cube root of 995

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Hints: A lot of the numbers in these clues are incorrect. Specifically in the Down clues. Calculate the differences between the given numbers and the correct numbers.

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