I came across this enchanting word on Christmas Eve morn while playing my daily on-line game of “7 Little Words” (http://www.7littlewords.com/daily-puzzle/). Had to look it up – “the use of archaic words or expressions, especially in historical novels.”
Zounds, quoth I – methinks ‘tis a prime candidate to continue the series of caches based on obscure words [discombobulated – GC6JPHF, suffonsiphied - GC6JQPZ, backwhap – GC6K41V, coddiwomple – GC6PGAS and gobbledygook – GC6XX9K].
Apply your gadzooking powers and tools to assembling the letters in the grid into archaic words that match the clues, the number of letters and the digital roots* given below.
1. CRAer (8 letters with digit root 6)
2. weapon (6 letters with digit root 1)
3. to beat with an appendage (6 letters with digit root 4)
4. like us after Xmas (10 letters with digit root 8)
5. in a sec (8 letters with digit root 5)
6. mishmash (10 letters with digit root 5)
7. eager (4 letters with digit root 3)
8. gadzookery (11 letters with digit root 2)
Then arrange the assembled words in alphabetical order and identify the 43th, 11th, 20th, 27th, 20nd, 61st, 8th and 54th letters and call their alphanumeric digital roots* A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H. The cache is at N45 1A.BCD W75 3E.FGH.
* a=1, b=2, c=3 … and then sum and re-sum as needed to get a single digit (eg. q = 17 = 8)
