TomulusAndWaterMusic shortly after their 5000th find, May 10, 2022
On May 23, 1953 near Buffalo, New York, an event occurred which would eventually have repercussions for all of us gathered at Panera on the 71st anniversary of the event and for all who someday solve this puzzle and find this cache! Maybe it would be appropriate to sing Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World" as you tinker with the puzzle--or maybe nearly ALWAYS! (How might THAT radically alter our days!)
As usual, solve the puzzle, then discover a hidden keyword (relevant to the honoree of this cache) in order to receive coordinates to the actual location of this geocache.
Thanks, as always, to hunterKat for her assistance in converting the Excel version of the grid to a format GC will allow, and to JAF430 for suggesting improvements to the clues.
JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE, MONSIEUR RAISINS!
ACROSS
1 With Academic, tv gameshow that Michael, son of TomulusAndWaterMusic, participated in
4 Another son of TAWM
9 Highschool musical TAWM's sons Philip and Michael participated in
11 How the baseball coach of one of those sons might’ve replied, during a grueling practice, to the team captain’s “What’s our goal here?”
12 Word before ball or cushion
14 With Falls, the Birthplace of Women’s Rights and a city connected, so to speak, to 8D
15 Where Tomulus might purchase hiking or biking equipment
17 Term for throat, which includes the larynx (the voice box), which is affected by Tomulus's MSA (so stand near and listen closely!)
19 Egyptian sun god and chief deity
21 Citizen of the oldest continuously independent state in the Arab world
22 I south of El Paso
23 Where TomulusAndWaterMusic honeymooned after wedding in Princeton in 1983
26 With Barton, one of the caches in MSt & tomulus’s Triple Crown Horse Trail
27 Site of Mabamba Swamp, where Tom & Paula have never watched birds, hiked, biked, or cached
30 Pacific Green Party candidate and anarchist Arrow whose acts of arson were deemed protests by ELF
31 With Lake, the body of water you’d be on the edge of if you'd just found Hoof it to the Point (Udder Madness)
33 Name of 15 popes, a defector named Arnold and a Cumberbatch who played Stephen Hawking
34 Make bigger
35 Cape named by Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602 and visited often by WaterMusic; its name is the 9th oldest English place-name in the US
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1 Jamaican institution established in 1879, the country’s most significant cultural, artistic and scientific org.
2 Merciful conclusions to pugilistic contests, briefly
3 What the rower was, compared to the fox, in the riddle about the fox, the chicken, the corn and the rowboat?
4 Coyote in the eyes of a shepherd, perhaps?
5 “Adapting ___ ___ ___ climate,” 20-minute Deauville Green Awards winner produced by the UN
6 Book title if Mórtola and Franco had written about just one stinging insect?
7 State (abbr) in which TomulusAndWaterMusic found leaning tree of kingdom (GCA0EAB)
8 Canal and state (abbr) where TomulusAndWaterMusic biked 400 miles in 8 days
10 Maker of night vision scopes like the X-SIGHT 5 SERIES
12 Inquire too much, sometimes
13 Julie Eisenhower and Tricia Cox’s dad
16 With Pacific, a Trail TomulusAndWaterMusic have hiked
18 Three sts. SSW of where Augusta is and where TomulusAndWaterMusic and their 3 sons spent 12 summers
20 Enya’s contribution to The Lord of the Rings and the theme song of Aragorn and Arwen
21 Title word of a Paul Robeson, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II Show Boat song for bass (so tenor Tomulus hasn't performed it)
24 Pre-grad-school hurdle?
25 Alzarius to friends like TomulusAndWaterMusic
28 Owner of Mastermind (GC1J7NG)--which TAWM have not found, though Apollo17 has, and I bet Tomulus knows a lot about LRVs
29 Energy giant based in Calgary and led by Nancy Southern
32 Pay statement abbr.
33 Egyptian soul of a person or god, depicted as a human-headed bird requiring nourishment
Tomulus BEEing silly--and maybe giving a hint to 6D?
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