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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 3's cache container has been moved a few feet so that finders don't need to fight their way through a dense jungle of giant knotweed to locate the containeer, so please check Certitude for new coords. 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.
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ACROSS
1 Satanic
4 It often began with several pieces for harpsichord: allemande, courante and sarabande [ORDRE]
9 To Freud, the realistic parts of minds that mediate between instincts and moral consciences
13 Mythical bird Ibn Battuta likened to a mountain hovering over the China Sea
14 Barbary sheep [AOUDADS]
16 “That little thing scared me!"
17 Sometimes a weapon, sometimes a brand of men’s grooming products
18 Sometimes whip badly, sometimes a wood finish
19 Contract requiring confidentiality, for short
20 Plaintiff Jane in a SCOTUS decision of January 22, 1973
21 Murse
24 Pairs as well with lapis as it does with bunting
26 Basic garment for men and women in ancient Rome
28 Tench Tilghman (who served longer than any others) and Peregrine Fitzhugh were among Washington’s 32 ___-de-camp
29 South of Houston Street, more familiarly
31 They are integral parts of whole grains and include the aleurone, pericarp, and sometimes pedicel
33 Measurements of the expansion of the universe put the Big ___ singularity at 13.8 billion years ago
35 Susan, who starred as a Partridge, then an Owen on tv
36 Don Black or David Duke or Matthew Hale, almost certainly [BIGOT]
37 It will leverage the Roku TV platform to build and deliver smart TVs that run Roku OS
38 Raymond’s former bodyguard on The Blacklist
39 ___ generis: of its own kind
40 World heavyweight champion of the 1930s Max and his son (who played dim-witted Jethro Bodine)
42 Stupid, stubborn, or detestable person
43 Jack Sprat ___ ___ fat
45 Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd
46 Fire starter, sometimes
48 MacLeish: “A poem should be equal to: Not ___.”
51 The Six Million ___ Man
55 Edward (who played Lou Grant on tv) and his daughters Kate and Liza
59 The large broad bone forming the upper part of each half of the pelvis
60 McDonald, who went 78-70 for the Orioles and Brewers and now pitches for MASN
62 Frighteningly strange
63 You might burst at them
64 Michael of “All in the Family” (and Carl and Estelle’s son)
65 Annoyances in kitchen sinks?
66 Certainly The Fonz was seldom without one
67 Gibran: “But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens ___ between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” [DANCE]
68 You see it before pus
DOWN
1 “Prince of the Humanists,” who wrote In Praise of Folly [ERASMUS]
2 ___ populi
3 What you might call pre-game music in Calgary, Edmonton, Buffalo, and Boston?
4 ___-rah, USMC battle cry or greeting or expression of enthusiasm
5 Remorseful one
6 Shoe size and type that might cause you to think of Frankie Avalon’s Dinah?
7 Abnormal rattling sound heard when using a stethoscope? [RALE]
8 Branch of the Dept. of Commerce that provides financial assistance to communities
10 Really smart, really successful fighter pilots? (Two words)
11 Venerable resource tome
12 It could come after figure, ice, or roller [SKATING]
14 Dam city on the Nile
15 Johnny Knoxville in Men in Black II [SCRAD]
22 Channel marker you’d expect to find between ones marked A and C?
23 Bee Gees family
24 Itemize
25 Striped African equine
27 Last title word of a Dumas novel whose plot was suggested by Dumas’ ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet
28 Mark with holy oil
30 Lucille Clifton’s “homage to my hips” and Ogden Nash’s “A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor”
32 Fever or shivering fit
34 Not, quaintly
38 Easiest way to say yes to Vladimir
41 Where the Rosebud Indian Res is
43 Terminal abbreviation for flights coming in
44 Openings to a passage, especially at either end of the cervix of the unterus
46 Measure water’s depth
47 Veggies often candied
49 What many cars on lots are
50 Javier’s first month
51 What’s thrown in a certain kind of golf
52 Margarine
53 Neeson of Honest Thief
54 The world is well lit with this noble gas
56 Church of “Over When It’s Over”
57 Obsolete form of a word that means torn
58 Miguel’s brain [SESO]
60 It comes with cups in various sizes
61 Major traditional tv network
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