For a long time I've wondered how difficult it is to create a crossword puzzle like the ones that are published in newspapers. Now I know: It's not easy, even with a computer-searchable list of English words and abbreviations to help. But it was kind of fun making the puzzle; I hope you enjoy solving it. For those of you who do the New York Times crosswords, this is probably about as difficult as a Tuesday puzzle.
Use the Elk Head trailhead for this cache, at N 41 04.118 W 124 08.985; the area is open from sunrise to sunset. The cache is a few hundred feet off the main trail, and you might have to step over some small logs, but no bushwhacking is required.
The cache was originally an ammo can, but that disappeared and I replaced it by a 4.7 cup (1.1 liter) SnapWare container on 4/27/2013. On 7/16/2018 I replaced that by a preform tube.
Reception may be poor near the cache, so once you get close you should look for the X formed by 2 logs, as shown in this picture.
Click here for separate JPEGs of the grid, the Across clues, and the Down clues. (Due to file size limitations, I couldn't store a single JPEG of the whole thing here.)
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ACROSS |
| 1 |
Llamalike animal |
| 7 |
Greek coins |
| 12 |
Sports official, briefly |
| 15 |
"Stinking rose" |
| 16 |
Apply |
| 17 |
Northern California river |
| 18 |
Rouse |
| 19 |
A noble gas |
| 20 |
Colorant |
| 21 |
Comedian Sahl |
| 23 |
Carpenter's container |
| 25 |
Extinct bird |
| 28 |
Coarse fabric |
| 31 |
Currency since 2002 |
| 32 |
Portents |
| 34 |
Video game console |
| 35 |
Ardent |
| 36 |
What a computer crash might make you do |
| 38 |
What you become when tagged |
| 39 |
Date on a food container: Abbr. |
| 40 |
Town southwest of Redding |
| 41 |
Actress Lupino |
| 43 |
Prefix with skeleton |
| 44 |
Fire residue |
| 47 |
A woodwind or its inventor |
| 48 |
Oedipus ___ |
| 49 |
Northern California river |
| 50 |
"___ has funny cars", by Jefferson Airplane |
| 51 |
Fire or preserve |
| 52 |
Draft animal |
| 54 |
Smelly Arctic mammal |
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| 56 |
Computed _____ tomography |
| 59 |
Soon |
| 61 |
Part of an act |
| 62 |
Common feature of lions and horses |
| 63 |
Parka |
| 65 |
Amazed |
| 66 |
X, in math |
| 68 |
Chess piece |
| 70 |
Tree fluid |
| 71 |
Boast |
| 74 |
Type of tire |
| 78 |
Municipality in Sweden |
| 79 |
Delete |
| 80 |
A horse racing bet |
| 81 |
Bomb that bombed |
| 82 |
Rest |
| 83 |
Puzzle maker |
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DOWN |
| 1 |
Word with iron or middle |
| 2 |
Negligent |
| 3 |
Large Asian country: Abbr. |
| 4 |
Payment to an ex |
| 5 |
Type of geocache event: Abbr. |
| 6 |
Sour |
| 7 |
Fictional villain Luthor |
| 8 |
PC file extension |
| 9 |
Japanese camera company |
| 10 |
Scout unit |
| 11 |
54 for 19 Across, e.g.: Abbr. |
| 12 |
Chigger |
| 13 |
Pensive pal of Pooh |
| 14 |
Type of muscle |
| 22 |
Oft-rented jacket, briefly |
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| 24 |
Should be preceded by a look |
| 25 |
Mother of the Nereids |
| 26 |
Alpha's opposite |
| 27 |
Part of drug rehab, briefly |
| 29 |
Baseball stat: Abbr. |
| 30 |
Parcel of land |
| 33 |
Helix |
| 35 |
Mass departure |
| 37 |
Paradise |
| 39 |
Final, for example |
| 42 |
Chopper |
| 43 |
Type size |
| 44 |
Crooked |
| 45 |
Emitted light |
| 46 |
Jinxed |
| 51 |
Long-time Chronicle columnist |
| 52 |
Town southwest of Redding |
| 53 |
A boolean operation |
| 55 |
Watergate or Enron, e.g. |
| 56 |
Entertained |
| 57 |
Kubla Khan locale |
| 58 |
Letterboxer's need |
| 59 |
Yearly |
| 60 |
Sleep like a cat |
| 63 |
Cognizant |
| 64 |
A Carpenter |
| 67 |
Finished |
| 69 |
Like some ears |
| 72 |
Code-breaking org.: Abbr. |
| 73 |
Knuth's typesetting system |
| 75 |
Here, in Hyères |
| 76 |
Cash dispenser: Abbr. |
| 77 |
Place for experiments, briefly |
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