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.
Here's another crossword variety puzzle style that I recently came across. I thought, "That looks like fun!" I hope you agree!
If you wish, the puzzle is also available to download and print as a PDF.
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In this puzzle, answers are entered into the grid in Twists & Turns. Twist clues are presented alphabetically, and you’ll need to determine where to enter them into the Light and Dark 3x3 grid segments. Answers will either start or end in the center of each Twist and proceed in a spiral pattern, never moving diagonally or overlapping (see examples). Turn answers are entered consecutively from Start to End, going left to right in Row 1, then right to left in Row 2, alternating back and forth throughout the grid. For Certitude, enter the circled letters in order.
| Light Twists |
Dark Twists |
| • Bowling alley machine |
• Anxiety or strain |
| • Coating with vitreous glaze |
• Avant-garde art movement |
| • Delimiter |
• AWOL soldiers |
| • Heavenly |
• Dead bodies |
| • Childish crying |
• Harvesting machines |
| • Spawns |
• Noblewomen |
| • Two-dot diacritic |
• Not sweating it |
| • Underlying geological layers |
• Mummy makers |
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| Turns |
| 1) Wish fulfiller |
15) Word on a campaign poster |
| 2) Speak aloud |
16) Sta4nce, for instance |
| 3) Pithy |
17) Device needed to web surf |
| 4) Splash the cash |
18) Hidden cache |
| 5) Return to default settings |
19) Oil-bearing rocks |
| 6) Symbol hidden in the FedEx logo |
20) Fatigues |
| 7) Hose off |
21) Teach or practice |
| 8) Greasy spoon |
22) Pot sweeteners |
| 9) Cod and Canaveral |
23) Lightly char |
| 10) Medicinal ointments |
24) Loons' lodgings |
| 11) Quagmire |
25) Double-reeded woodwinds |
| 12) Fish for sport |
26) Seeker's opposite |
| 13) War clubs |
27) Old Portuguese money |
| 14) Film critic, e.g. |
28) Gives an edge to |
You can validate your puzzle solution with
certitude.