NOTE: The listed coordinates are NOT the position of the cache. You must solve the puzzle below to determine the actual coordinates of the cache.
I've always really liked Rows Garden puzzles, but for a long time it felt too intimidating to try to make one. Recently I finally decided to give it a shot.
If you wish, the puzzle is also available to download and print as a PDF.
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Each Row contains either one or two answers, clued in order. Each hexagonal Bloom also has its own answer that will be entered around one of the Light, Medium, or Dark blooms. The Bloom clues are grouped by Light, Medium and Dark, but are presented alphabetically. You must determine where each Bloom word goes in the grid, where it begins and which direction to read it. For Certitude, enter the circled letters in order, top to bottom.
| ROWS |
MEDIUM BLOOMS |
| A) Back up a loan |
• Ballgame scoreboard column |
| B) Cut notches in |
• Call forth |
| Maximally drippy |
• Called or designated |
| C) Pioneered the low road |
• Costello, to Abbot |
| Big-billed bird |
• People who are revolting |
| D) Old French bagpipe |
• Sleep disruptors |
| Result of constantly lying |
• Summed sequence |
| E) Dogs of no certain breed |
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| Thread continuations |
LIGHT BLOOMS |
| F) NO3- ion |
• Finely blended |
| Anne Shirley and Raggedy Ann, e.g. |
• Lent a hand |
| G) Sororal |
• Maker of a fine cheddar? |
| Grendel or Ghidorah, e.g. |
• Social disorder |
| H) Final death, collapse or failure |
• Trigonometric function |
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DARK BLOOMS |
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• Be adamant |
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• Like a used diaper |
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• Only just |
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• Stinging weed |
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• They see one another |
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