Nota bene: As of June 16, the five RRP puzzles have been considerably (and I hope considerately) revised, which is to say, simplified, in hopes of making them more easily solved and thus more likely to be found on July 12, 2025, the day of our MGS Summer Picnic (GCB38AP). RRP 1 has a revised hint and clues within its description. RRP 2 and 3 now include [ANSWERS] after many crossword clues (mostly the ones for which visiting the Internet would be necessary for most cachers). RRP 4 has much of its grid already filled in, the location of its required quotation highlighted in green and orange, and its hints made more obvious. And RRP 5's grid has most of its grid's unnumbered cells filled in. Difficulty ratings for the puzzles will not be changed, however, in deference to previous solvers' possible reliance on those ratings for challenge caches.
SOLVE THE FOLLOWING CROSSWORD AND ENTER A TWO-WORD KEYWORD IN CERTITUDE IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE ACTUAL COORDINATES FOR THIS CACHE:
WIRELESS ROD IN WREN
ACROSS
1 What each one of games 2, 3, and 6 in a 1936 NYY-NYG contest was
8 1974 Supertramp hit from Crime of the Century
15 County in Georgia (home to the state’s first passenger rail service and Tift College)
16 What the runner at third base did before the batter made contact when the suicide squeeze was on
17 Decorate with leaves—or number the leaves of a book rather than its pages
18 Shades of meaning, expression, or sound
19 What the shop mechanic might do to remove grease from his hands
21 Henry IV, Otto III, or Matthias, for short [HRE]
22 Kevin Kallaugher, editorial cartoonist of The Economist and The Baltimore Sun [KAL]
25 ___ Tin Tin
26 Short expression of a general truth
28 Makes happy
31 ___ intolerance
34 Belgian painter James, of Les XX and “Christ’s Entry Into Brussels in 1889” [ENSOR]
35 In an emergency, you might use one to get gas out of your car (the spelling 61% of Brits prefer)
36 Japanese art [NIHONGA]
38 Shakespeare penned about 154 of them
42 A segment or the whole rim of a wooden wheel to which the spokes are attached [FELLOE]
44 Manufacturer of thermoformable materials for global food and dairy industries since 1960 [CEDAP]
45 Embarrassed
47 You might do it to improve the health of your lawn
48 The B, F, or H of MLB, NFL, and NHL
49 Briefly, a deadly deer disease caused by the bites of no-see-ums [EHD]
51 Type of gull
52 Western Asset High Income Opportunity Fund on NYSE (or code for Oregon’s 2nd busiest airport) [HIO]
53 With 66A, games required to become champions of MLB and NHL
57 More soporific?
60 Type of tile used in NASA’s heat shields
64 Where most thespians wish to be
65 Robert Bridges’ “When We First Met,” for example [TRIOLET]
66 See 53A
67 Result of eating too much and moving too little?
DOWN
1 Dearest friend, in a text
2 Though it’s the Brits’ word for toilet, it’s actually derived from the French “guardez l’eau”
3 NBA’s Magic, on scoreboards
4 Carbondale, IL radio station broadcasting news, talk, info, and classical music for the univ. [WSIU]
5 Porous terracotta pots planted in gardens for irrigation (sounds like ollas)
6 Speaks
7 ___ ___ Bill, signed into law by FDR in June 1944, provided WWII veterans with funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing
8 The sixth of Fleming’s Bond books (1958) but the first to be made into a film (1962)
9 University of Chicago paleontologist who, with Sepkoski, suggested the extinction of dinosaurs 66 mya was part of mass extinctions that may have occurred every 26 million years [RAUP]
10 Grp. ER nurses might belong to
11 Non-profit, 14-hosp. academic medical sys. centered in the Pittsburgh area [AHN]
12 Alternatives to lattes
13 Come forth
14 Perceive anew?
20 Misplaced word in a hugely popular song by The Flamingos (1959)? [ONLY]
22 Boone’s role on The Blacklist
23 Agelastica ___, the alder leaf beetle [ALNI]
24 Alfred LaRue, of Song of Old Wyoming, among many others
26 “Right now!”
27 Party snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47
29 A Bridge ___ ___, Cornelius Ryan novel about Operation Market Garden
30 Jennings Ford’s first name (he sang “Sixteen Tons” and “The Shot-Gun Boogie”)
32 Church recess which usually contains the altar
33 Charlottesville Albemarle Airport, briefly [CHO]
35 For ___ sign
37 Initials associated with the 1984 Dodge Omni, which Shelby said went very, very fast [GLH]
39 North Holland cheese
40 Author alluded to in 43D
41 Disgorge
43 They’ve been written on solitude and a Grecian urn, to duty and the Confederate dead
45 What might be grand or upright? (Two words)
46 What Huskies’ fans might do at The Apple Cup game, esp. if it’s not played in Pullman?
47 If it ends in ly, it just might be one
48 Almost there
50 Prefix denoting a factor of one hundred [HECTO]
53 ___ Offshore, successor to Ferguson Seacabs, Gauthier Rentals & Containental Offshore, + the code for freight container (hence the 4-letter code you’d see on nearly all their steel freight containers) [OEGU]
54 Worry
55 E in the mnemonic device HOMES
56 Greek for the body of a temple (rather than the portico) in which the image of the deity is housed [NAOS]
58 Netorare, nuclear-thermal rocket, or National Transcontinental Railway, for short
59 Tetragrammaton in Greek, or the ___ Theater, since 2010 the home of Maui OnStage [IAO]
61 The year Henry I of France married Anna of Kiev [MLI]
62 Short for what was formed in 2006 from the Inst. of Electrical Engineers (1871) & the Inst. of Incorporated Engineers (1884) [IET]
63 Short for city, county, or “couldn’t tell you”
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