Solve the puzzle, then follow the final instructions to obtain the coordinates.
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ACROSS:
1. Cachers and customs agents engage in it
7. Next year’s alums.
9. Multi-caches have several
12. A presidential cache hiding spot?
13. Enigma
15. One may be feathery or scaly
17. Cry
20. Rats do it like birds
22. Oldest active cache (as of 10/15)
24. Archie and Edith’s show
27. Like a cache that’s as good as found; or where the groceries may be
29. “____ fishin’ ”
30. ____ Miss.
31. Wet state?
36. Driest known object in the Solar System
37. Ammo ____ (classic cache)
39. Utilitarian
40. Eternal
41. Like the chance of finding a 5/5 cache in 5 minutes
42. All geocaches must meet them
49. Ninety degrees
51. Reggae precursor
52. Not fooled by
53. Some nest eggs
54. Quite surprising
58. Popular
59. Alright
60. Common illuminated 76-down
62. Wander
64. One may be driven to it, but should not drive and do it
65. Ebb
67. A start to sharing openly?
70. Just getting started
71. Important caching coordinate
74. Hawks, Raptors and Pelicans are in it
75. Map book
76. Intellectual geocaching challenge
77. A cacher may take the one less traveled
79. Lair
80. Captain’s station
82. Bluesy James’ namesakes
83. Night-cache need
87. Fossilized tree resin
90. Dal. cager
91. She wrote it, on T.V.
94. Some tree caches are out of this, for many cachers
95. H2O
97. Pale azure
98. Ordinary people have done it before kings
101. Fair warning to a cacher, perhaps
102. Cosmologist Carl
103. Control Video Corporation successor
104. Fiver
106. Perp. nabber
108. Unbending
110. Brand in many cachers’ pockets
115. A cacher may climb or wade across one
118. White-winged game in Texas
119. Its removal by the government allowed geocaching
123. Not to be kept secret
126. Lead-in to cat or cone
127. CPR pro
128. Stab
130. Spelling or quilting event
131. Cache stuffin’
134. Where a 72-down might check in for a while
137. Holed up
140. Bengal baby
142. As to (abbr.)
143. A diet drink, or what to pop to drink it
145. Famous Fudd
148. Lard holder
149. Finders mark it
153. Greek 13th
155. Not accepting “no”
159. It’s for showing off or taking off
161. Caching congregations
164. Crazy down south
165. 22.5 degrees
166. You’ll find them near cemetery caches
169. It’s not gross
170. Trojan king
171. It often hurts cachers to leave it behind
173. BSA national honor society
174. A bond that pays
175. Final course
177. Picnics and caching excursions
178. Hikeaday’s diminutive geocaching pal
181. Word with slow or sleigh
184. A slider or swinger, maybe
185. “What’d you say?”
186. Fail to mention
187. His efforts were met ____ ____, and he received the coveted smiley!
190. Tolstoy’s Karenina
191. Mobius or sirloin
192. One of twelve in a classic blues song
193. No longer snoozing
194. Plug for a diner
195. Dramatic
197. Scruff site
199. Jamaican export
200. Sand on the links
202. And so forth
203. Geocaching, Waymarking, Whereigo and CITO runner
206. Spot for a high hanging hide
207. Pass with flying colors
208. Dwindled
211. For optimal accuracy, cachers need it from satellites, not trees
212. “A mouse!”
213. Spanish treasure
214. Having a GPS receiver may keep you from getting this
216. Paid a pretty penny and then some
224. It began on May 3, 2000
227. Yo-Yo’s strings
230. Fro’s opposite
231. Woody perennial
232. Wooden bars in a scale?
234. Unix or Android, e.g.
235. Biblical boat or box
236. Heavenly geocaching essential
238. Painful caching souvenirs
242. Alt. to a Mac
244. U-2 or Zeppelin
246. Moist in the morning
247. ____ thee well
248. Intrude
251. Indict
253. Clandestine operators
254. Fight song
256. Betazoid-Human Deanna
257. Weaver
258. 2015 Expedia acquisition
260. Art style of Fort Worth’s Sinclair Building and Fair Park’s Hall of State
261. Terminate
262. Sound reflection
263. Spool of jute
265. Novice
266. Sweet sandwich
267. Simon met him
270. Dry out
271. Bill add-on
273. Stake it or lay it
274. Do you prefer checking a cache or ______ a check?
275. Don’t leave your cache-mobile in this type of zone
276. Carve
DOWN:
2. Board game subtitled, “The Game of Global Domination”
3. Some cache containers do it (So do some chads)
4. A structured form of play (like geocaching)
5. U.S. triple Grand Slam winner
6. A container and log at the posted coordinates, essentially
7. Kiefer, to Donald
8. Pro ____ (proportionately)
10. Approximation
11. Lower Manhattan neighborhood
12. It’s made to put caches on
13. 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, 200, etc. – to cachers
14. Youth ministry HQ’d in Colo. Spgs.
15. Geocaching tube
16. Notoriety
18. Exist
19. Blue Ribbon brewer
21. Greeley’s advice to a young man
23. Pinot ____
25. Unending
26. Important caching coordinate
27. GC3NGG7, GC60AXK, or GC4480G
28. Basic computer programming command or GPSr option
32. On the condition that
33. British lines
34. ____ Bator
35. Concise caching concession
38. Roman 11, or Greek 14th
39. Global obesity leader
41. Word after water or snow
42. You may do it high and low for a cache
43. It’s left on logs
44. Sneakers named for a goddess of victory
45. Self-sufficient folks may live off it
46. Scarce
47. Sea urchin sushi
48. Perceive
50. Pierre’s st.
55. Jr.’s dad
56. A piece of cake, an arm and a leg, or a taste of your own medicine
57. Female gametes
60. Swindle
61. Tea type
63. Word with house or instinct
65. GPSr suggestion
66. Ninety degree angle
68. Cachers can take them or leave them
69. Halloween mo.
72. You can follow one from cache to cache
73. Run it up or pick it up
75. Moby’s amputee
76. Cache with easy auto access
78. Aquarius opens it
81. Owing
84. Rooster Cogburn truly had it
85. Rooster’s mate
86. “You’re it!”
88. A big one has eighteen wheels
89. City in Nevada, or in Parker and Tarrant Counties
91. They don’t cache (or cast)
92. Stage fare
93. Quickest cacher, maybe
96. Prestigious caches have it
97. Female union member?
99. Refusal
100. GPS information cachers often ignore
102. Groundspeak home ground
105. Feature of a derby or stein
107. Cat’s catch
109. Taking three consecutive wickets
111. Geocaching purports to be a modern-day version of it
112. Snoopy’s litter-mates
113. Green caching mantra
114. It’s no big deal for a geocacher
116. Empire st.
117. Word with bank, day, or snow
120. Owsley’s fame
121. Sock exchange?
124. Camouflage medium
125. Forceful thug
129. Second showing
132. Woody’s 7-down
133. Log and move it, don’t spend it
135. Premier geocaching location
136. 112.50°
138. La Brea draw
139. Jimmy and Rosalynn’s daughter
141. Some high-terrain caches require a lot of it
144. Incinerate
146. Flight
147. Wimp
150. Target
151. Exclusively
152. Islet
154. Internet address
156. It’s required
157. System with two channels
158. Where the coordinates put you
160. Timbuktu stream
162. Innocent
163. Longest river entirely in Texas
167. Spot
168. An Idle Python
171. Like Stevie Ray Vaughn’s Trouble
172. Where Brazilians live
176. In order that
177. Geologic geocache
180. Coordinated stamp container?
182. Cervidae
183. He bartered his birthright for a mess of pottage
187. Twist dry
188. Not execute
189. Evangelist celebrated on April 25
196. Innovators push them
198. Skin or to skin
201. Big D transit sys.
204. Texas player or lawman
205. Like the routes to off-trail caches
209. Historic time
210. Welby title
215. Soft or crunchy Tex-Mex snack
217. Comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples famous for its ancient Roman ruins
218. Nightingale, e.g.
219. Word with Whip or worker
220. Toric toy
221. Artificial
222. Gregale’s dir.
223. Arm of the sea
225. Moneymaker
226. Egyptian flower?
228. Ton of fun
229. Compass _________
233. Small cache container of medical origin
237. Big blow in the Northwestern Pacific Basin
239. Grateful finder’s log abbreviation
240. ____ avis
241. Monopoly icon killed by a cat
242. Hundred Acre Wood denizen
243. Cache or hunter hider (abbr.)
245. Flexible
246. Ms. Moore
249. Apollo booster
250. Standard of perfection
251. When Juliette asks, “wherefore art thou Romeo?”
252. Coffee, tea, or Great Aunt Bee container
255. Alien craft
259. What to do with 131-across
264. Destination estimation, for short
265. Encouraging cheer
268. Diatonic third
269. Skeeter screen
272. Classic cola
Final Instructions
Use your completed crossword grid to determine the following values:
A = number of times R appears in a Blue square
B = number of times E appears in a Light Green square
C = number of times I appears in a Pink square
D = number of times T appears in a Purple square
E = number of times R appears in an Orange square
F = number of times E appears in a Dark Green square
The cache is located a at:
N 32° 50.ABC
W 97° 10.DEF
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
Congratulations to Axmantis 
and QuadWrays 
for First-to-Find!