BetaCross
The cache is not at the posted
coordinates. Solve the following puzzle to learn the true cache location.
I have used crosswords for solving many of
my geocaching puzzles. The online
solver app allows you to verify every answer
as you work. This saves the problem of
having no idea where your error(s) are if
the solution Checker isn't happy.
Plus, filling out crossword puzzles online
is fun!
However, my past puzzles have caused problems with the final step, which
required copying the solver app URL into the Checker. This puzzle is a
beta test of a new method for that final step. It is explained in the
instructions below.
In your Found It log (or via a Message), please let me know how your experience
went, and if you have solved previous puzzles, if this seems like an
improvement.
Crossword puzzle
instructions:
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Keep the cache
listing open in one browser tab and the crossword in another and switch back
and forth.
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Click the clue you
wish to enter an answer for. For example, click "2 Across" in the
column on the right and the cursor will be placed and ready to enter an
answer.
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To change direction
of typing, press the right- or down-arrow keys.
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Click "Revert" to
clear your entries and start over.
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Click "Save" to save
your progress so far.
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Click "Check
Answers" to
have your work checked. A new page will load with each answer
marked either right or wrong. Click
the browser back-arrow to return to the puzzle. Feel free to use this
button as much as you would like while working on the puzzle.
Here's how to get the cache coordinates:
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When the last letter
square has been filled in, click "Check Answers". If any of your
answers have red X's, they are incorrect. Click the browser back-arrow
(page back) to return to the puzzle and make corrections. Repeat until all the
answers have a green check mark.
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On the Check
Answers screen, press Ctrl-A to select the entire page. Then
use Ctrl-C to copy the page.
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Use the following
link to open an app that will process your answers:
Process Answers (Right-click & Open link in a new tab)
Press Ctrl-V to paste your answers, then click Submit.
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Click this
Checker Link and
enter the keyword supplied in the app.
Click "Certify my Solution". If correct, you will receive the cache
coordinates.
You can solve the puzzle online by clicking the following applet link.
BetaCross Puzzle Solver (Right-click & Open link in new tab)
No registration is required.
No personal information is required.
The applet is supplied by a well-known and respected publisher and is widely
used in education.
---- Crossword Clues ----
1 Across
6 Across
Which is _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _?:
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Wallpaper with bright pink and purple flowers
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A
gold and chartreuse three-piece lace and velvet toilet seat cover
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A dazzlingly bright
area rug with a flowery 60's theme
10 Across
Popular metal cache box
11 Across
The head of a tapeworm
13 Across
A ship's sail for use in calm weather (common abbr)
14 Across
Invasive succulent common in Salt Lake
16 Across
Precursor of elevenses in Hobbiton
21 Across
24 Across
Homophonous resident of Odense
25 Across
North central African capital
26 Across
Wife of 2 Down
27 Across
TJ_Hider would often ??????? his wife of all her Tupperware, which tended to
migrate from the kitchen cabinet to really dodgy places like a yucky niche
filled with mud and rotten leaves under an old rusty car body.
28 Across
What 1 Across protects against
30 Across
31 Across
The founding voice of Siri
34 Across
One of Julie's Favorite Things
38 Across
An original version or model used for testing and further development
39 Across
Major MS OS successor of Threshold
41 Across
Famous character suffering from ophidiophobia
42 Across
Sequel to Scorpio
2 Down
John Doe goes to Germany
3 Down
C6H807 (first word)
4 Down
“It was purely ????????????? that we found the cache!” “Sarah who??”
5 Down
Eminem, Jay-Z, 50 Cent...
6 Down
Two thirds of a search tool so popular that its name has become a verb
7 Down
GPS-based coordinate systems used to identify precise locations on the earth
8 Down
Bert's buddy on the Street
9 Down
Rock debris at the base of a cliff
12 Down
Shares 19 Down
15 Down
Julie's 2nd, 3rd and 4th notes
17 Down
“Yuck!” exclaimed CacherJane as she watched a bunch of moldy slime ???? out of
the cache.
18 Down
19 Down
Island group at southern tip of 18 Down
20 Down
22 Down
Permian prelude
23 Down
Medical symbol (avoid if you experience ophidiophobia)
29 Down
32 Down
What type of creature is 42 Across?
33 Down
35 Down
Really cheap and inferior liquor
36 Down
Miss Lennox
37 Down
I’ve been known to sit and ????? while a friend searches fruitlessly for my
cache
38 Down
Predecessor of Pong
40 Down
Mi ???? es su ????