Solution - Mirror (#014)

The answers to clues on the first page fit in the blanks, with highlighted and unhighlighted blanks corresponding to consonants and vowels, respectively:

    Adolescent = TEENAGER
    Cattle feed = ALFALFA
    Literally, “empty hand” = KARATE
    “Stop it!” = ENOUGH
    Watering hole = TAVERN
    Actress Anne = HATHAWAY
    Waste away = EMACIATE
    Spot for a spit = ROTISSERIE
    City visited by Dorothy = EMERALD
    Untrue statement = FALSITY
    Hamlet or Macbeth, e.g. (2 words) = LEAD ROLE
    Okay to down = EDIBLE
    Pocahontas locale = COLONY
    Confused or disorderly = TUMULTUOUS
    Genetic mutation or sorting algorithm = INSERTION
    Last longer = OUTLIVE
    Beginner or newbie = NEOPHYTE
    

The answers to the clues on the second page are in alphabetical order:

    Fever condition = DELIRIUM
    Exhaust or weaken = ENERVATE
    Like Haile Selassie, LoLa Monroe, or Zahara Jolie-Pitt = ETHIOPIAN
    Deep-fried ball = FALAFEL
    Cleanliness = HYGIENE
    Unwanted entrance = INTRUSION
    "...nothing to fear but fear ______" = ITSELF
    Lustful desire = LIBIDO
    Grand and noble = LORDLY
    Arise (from) = ORIGINATE
    Result = OUTCOME
    Component with colored bands = RESISTOR
    One way to tie = STALEMATE
    Bird country? = TURKEY
    Action done when removing shoes or a corset = UNLACE
    It's at the end of a rainbow? = VIOLET
    Old british greeting (2 words) = WHAT HO
    

Given that the consonants are highlighted, we probably want to look at those, and indeed, these words can be paired up with the answers on the first page so that the consonants are in reverse order:

    TEENAGER -> ORIGINATE
    ALFALFA -> FALAFEL
    KARATE -> TURKEY
    ENOUGH -> HYGIENE
    TAVERN -> ENERVATE
    HATHAWAY -> WHAT HO
    EMACIATE -> OUTCOME
    ROTISSERIE -> RESISTOR
    EMERALD -> DELIRIUM
    FALSITY -> ITSELF
    LEAD ROLE -> LORDLY
    EDIBLE -> LIBIDO
    COLONY -> UNLACE
    TUMULTUOUS -> STALEMATE
    INSERTION -> INTRUSION
    OUTLIVE -> VIOLET
    NEOPHYTE -> ETHIOPIAN
    

The first letters of the words on the left spell out TAKE THE REFLECTION, and the first letters of the words on the right spell out OF THE WORD ILLUSIVE. The solution is therefore a word whose consonants are VSLL in that order, and the only word which fits this pattern is VISUALLY.

(note: the Apprentice version of this puzzle was called “Professor Layton and the Heated Neonatal Irises of Europe”. This phrase's consonants form a palindrome.)