SOLVE THE CROSSWORD, THEN ENTER A NINE-LETTER WORD INTO CERTITUDE IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE COORDINATES AND OTHER HELPFUL INFORMATION FOR THE CACHE
BOUNDARY TRAIL 8: BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER
ACROSS
1 Applaud
5 The BATFE, more familiarly, which operates a fire research lab in Beltsville, MD
8 Type of shower
14 Port Huron, briefly, or hollow in HI, or one of the fictional counties in FL where Jeepers Creepers was set (2001)
15 Type of currency
17 Colonel Paul Tibbets’ mom’s first name
18 Lose one’s cool
19 In the manner of an investigation, maybe
21 Novelist, playwright, poet, painter John ___ Passos, who died in Baltimore in 1970
22 Strongest, longest bone in your body
24 Grp. of helpful animals or agcy. established in 1975, dedicated to the exploration of space
26 Proverb or maxim
28 Hughes acquired this airline in1939
31 Commanders’ hometown?
35 Charlize of The Cider House Rules
37 Hoover or Grand Coulee
39 Rigel and Betelgeuse are in it
40 Hayes who helped raise the flag over Mount Suribachi
42 Latin for between—and the first five letters of the keyword for which you’re searching
43 Maybe they operate UFOs
44 MLB manager and player Dark, born in Comanche, OK, and known as The Swamp Fox
46 Spec. for encryption of electronic data estab. by NIST in 2001, also known as Rijndael
49 Arthur of The Sentinel, Childhood’s End, and 2001: A Space Odyssey
51 Parents Anne and Peter and their Potter-er daughter Joanne?
54 Immigrants often take this lang. course
55 Neither prescribed nor BTC
57 Objectivist Rand who penned The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged
59 The Darjeeling Limited or the City of New Orleans
62 Hormone that helps blood vessels constrict and the kidneys to control water and salt in the body
65 Line-shaped clouds produced by aircraft engine exhaust or changes in air pressure
69 With The, an American R&B group formed in 1958; Levert and Williams were original members
71 With 16D, French for between us
72 What street players do for monetary donations
74 Key word in title of GC4KNH7
75 Envoy
76 Every cacher needs one
77 Starling relative known for its ability to reproduce sounds, including human speech, in captivity
DOWN
1 The gold std. cert. for security management professionals—or a band from Poteau, OK?
2 “Take a ___ off, Fanny”—from The Band’s “The Weight” (1968)
3 Words to express a brief period of contemplation and then a very clear rejection?
4 Composed and self-assured
5 DC : Edison :: ___ : Tesla
6 Regularly drink to excess (or in slang, an adjective meaning very cool)
7 Steadfast or strong, well-founded or vigorous
9 Co-op where you could buy a Flash 22 Pack in blue
10 What George Washington actually stayed in as he traveled, at least in Smithfield and Charleston
11 Affinpinscher or Barbet
12 Russell Simmons’ ___ Def Comedy series on HBO
13 Word prescriptivist grammarians would argue is misused a dozen times in a 1969 Bob Dylan song
16 See 71A
20 Subaru pickup from 1978 to 1987—NCPositronics (spoiled child) had one!
22 Short for what some cache owners might like to see in finders’ logs
23 Briefly, Lynne, Wood, & Bevan, of “Don’t Bring Me Down” & “Endless Lies”
25 The ___ Line Railroad, named for Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad
27 With The, Daltrey, Townshend, Entwistle, and Moon, of “Baba O’Riley” (1971)
28 The only large moon in our solar system with a retrograde orbit, possibly once a dwarf planet
29 Courts
30 Anthropologist Dunham, grandmother of Malia, Sasha, and Suhaila
32 MacGregor of silent film, who directed 88 films and acted in 13, including Chain Lightning (1922)
33 St. Vincent Millay, who composed “I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed”
34 Assessor or reviewer, sometimes
36 Centerpiece of an historical palindrome erroneously attributed to Napoleon?
38 Prefix meaning middle, as in -morph, -derm, or -cephalic
40 Maladies
41 When Breath Becomes ___, Paul Kalanithi best-seller
44 Pilot, card, or bandage
45 Navy learning portal (abbr)
47 First word of the more popular title of Bart Howard and Kaye Ballard’s “In Other Words”
48 Blood test to determine inflammation by measuring how quickly red blood cells sink to the bottom of a tube (abbr)
50 Half of Hawkins’ first name: she flipped the halves for her stage name (Tell Mama)
52 Pallid
53 Up a tree, so to speak
56 Illicitly copy
58 Liquid laundry detergent with a Tropical Fruit fragrance
60 Grad
61 Insecure’s Jo-___ Rae Diop
63 “The last of the big city bosses,” Mayor of Chicago from 1955 to 1976
64 “In the Bulb There Is a Flower” or “Will You Let Me Be Your Servant”
65 Cartoon unit
66 Joan Osborne’s “___ of Us” (1995)
67 Chem. used in demolition as dynamite and in med. as a vasodilator
68 Soak flax or hemp in order to soften it and separate the fibers
70 It was signed into law by FDR on 8-14-35
73 Mess duty, briefly
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