PENDING INTHEINTERMEDIATELAKEBY JENNIFER CROUCH

PENDING IN THE INTERMEDIATE LAKE

This book is a guide to something similar to a treasure hunt, just not a particularly comprehensive one. It will (with the correct use) lead you to a rewarding treat that could be buried, sunken, suspended or in some other way con-cealed from the eye, ear, hand and mouth. Complete the cross words associated with each drawing and using the words from them, the whereabouts of the prize can be deduced in the final puzzle. Any tools, ideas and warnings that may be indispensable to your success will also be disclosed.

Use any type of resource that is at your disposal, perhaps consider doing so in groups, this could be hugely benefi-cial for the last task as my pictures are probably misleading and do contain accidental decoys, the forward notes and clues help make it clear. It is advised that you visit particular locations for some of the tasks; in the tasks ‘1520’ and ‘Timely’ for example, your location may as well be a precondition to your success. There are no spaces in the answers and all numbers are spelt out.

Personally, I have never completed a crossword in my life and my spelling is distinctly below average but rest as-sured the solutions to these tasks are quite real and ARE spelt correctly. Do not hesitate to contact me for any further inquiry.

Regrettably, I cannot be made accountable for any misadventure resulting from an employment of any or all of these tasks.

Best of luck,

Jennifer Crouch

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WATER FOULYou could probably visit any of the big parks in greater London for this task. Name the water fowl in the picture as well as the absent bird. Remember the habitat.

ACROSS

5 Familiar but relatively agressive water fowl, named after a large northerly place across the ocean.

7 Regular water fowl you would have fed in the park before.

DOWN

1 Water fowl that likes the sea with inky face.

2 Liquid terrain feature, a comfortable place for the birds.

3 Tangerine water fowl with elaborate feath-ers.

4 Not a water fowl. but a bird that inhabits many cities.

6 Water fowl with the interesting brightly coloured beak.

PALEONTOLOGYThe natural history museum could be a good place to go, else any kind of environment from which you can learn a bit about invertebrate paleontology and geology. You need to name some crea-tures and minerals that you will see. For the last task you will need the name of the regular structure later and creature that is an edible water to land mediator.

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3 Mollusk of bilateral symmetry with a valve and hinge.

5 Also known as Ectoprocta, another phylum of aquatic invertebrate.

8 Rarely seem and deceptively clam like, two valved with one armed to keep it still.

11 A very lustrous, metallic shiny non- animal with elongation perpendicular to the single plane of symmetry.

12 Animal with an external skeleton that will crawl across the sea-floor using its arm-whips for locomotion.

14 Colonial animal from middle Cambrian that has a variable number of branches.

DOWN

1 Shiny iron(III) oxide (Fe2O3).

2 Blue bulbous sorosillicate mineral.

4 Extinct group of marine cephalopod ani-mal animal with large ridged shell.

6 Large group of arthropods, they like the water and walk the land.

7 Animal hexactinellid with a skeleton.

9 Regular solid structure made of repeating pattern.

10 Ancient mollusk cephalopods that have a smooth shell with large gaseous body chanber.

13 Vascular sporing plant.

POLYHEDRAThe word Polyhedra is from the greek word for many (poly) and seated (hedron). A polyhedron is a three-dimensional solid which consists of a collection of polygons, most often joined at their edg-es. Visit any place where you can expose yourself to a comprehensive display of solid geometric shapes (for example the Science Museum or internet). It will be useful to learn how polyherda are named and catergorised.

Find the names of some of the shapes and polyhedra you see in the picture. There are a few ad-jectives, but remember the one that hides things and the shape that builds up a beehive for the last task.

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4 Epic ancint Egyptian tomb.

5 A regular quadrilateral that has four fold-able planes of symmetry.

6 A type of convex poyhedron that is regu-lar- made up of one type of regular polygon

8 A polyhedron constructed of three types of regular polygon faces; octagons, hexagons and squares.

9 A type of regular convex polyhedron made from two of more types of regular polygons.

DOWN

1 Plunged or sunk into.

2 A form who’s faces are parallelograms and who’s base is six sided like a honey-comb.

3 A regular quadrilateral that has two foldable planes of symmetry.

5 An unlikely polyhedron with eight faces.

7 A word for reflected.

1520 LE CHAMP DU DRAP D’ORYou should do some research for this task. Find out as much as you can about the event in question; visit the original “Champ du Drap D’Or” in Hampton Court Palace as an option to obtain invalu-able information. An internet substitute may be suitable but rather more complicated.

Intentions, dates, meeting places and the terms under which said event took place. Names, people and animals, types of temporarily accommodation. You will need the word which describes a de-meanor of significant description.

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3 Every year its the number six.

7 Those who assist the king.

8 In a state as magnificent as a castle.

10 The royal French equivalent at the time.

11 A meeting to find something out.

12 In how much time did the following of the English king consume 2200 sheep, roughly 1350 crumpets and 70 jars of strawberry jam.

DOWN

4 A type of canine friends.

2 The ferry from Dover to ....

4 What food is cooking in the tent.

5 The Golden Cloth.....

6 The six wives of who?

9 A name for a place to stay.

TIMELYParticularly rooms 4, 6, 11-23, 27, of the British Museum.

Name and places and things depicted and described by the clues. You will need as much informa-tion as you can concerning the ‘evacuations’ in this puzzle, collect as many details as you can for later. You must retain the adjective.

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3 The name of the surprised horse at the greek temple.

5 Where the double headed serpend comes from.

6 A modern mask made by the Chewa peo-ple named after English comic actor and film director of the silent film era.

9 The name we give to the group of people made of stone, after the Lord of a certain Scottish town.

10 One of the miniature carvings presents people traveling through a mountain with goods. How is the mountain named.

DOWN

1 Assyrian king under whom the evacua-tions of Nimrud were built.

2 The face with the beard was made by people of which pacific island in the direc-tion of Eastern Australia. The re-freshed latin name given by the Romans to the land in today’s Scotland.

4 This headdress is from which if the Malakula Islands?

7 The word for when something is weath-ered, in the state of the lion head in the room.

PENDINGYou need an arial view of the area. So make this available to you by which ever means are most convenient to you by use of a map, internet satellite image or by use of some other device else you can not go any further. The following is a description of how to use the words you have found in the cross words and what to do with them. To find the treasure you must refer back to the puzzles you have solved.

The place you must go to was burnt in a fire and although it is not what it was before, it is still there.

Use the structure you got from PALEONTOLOGY and the adjective from 1520 LE CHAMP DU DRAP D’OR. The latter must be turned from an adjective into it’s related noun. To find its name.

Find the latitude and longitude for the center-point of a structure in this place who’s roof resembles 3 of the shape selected from POLYHEDRA joined together.

Align the coordinates you have found out with those of a living shape in north eastern direction relative to this initial point with latitude: 51.422855 and longitude: -0.068429.

Extend a straight path on your map (or equivalent devise) from the living shape, maintaining this alignment past the feature mentioned in WATER FOUL.

While still maintaining the alignment of these two points, measure:

From: the place (still in line) where the creature in PALEONTOLOGY is capa-ble of breathing on both sides.

To: the point on the ground, (still in line), that is as far as a length equal too the height of the evacuation in TIMELY.

Your prize is described by the adjective in POLYHEDRA and concealed by the only thing that could conceal it at this point. You will thus know what you need to retrieve it, it is guarded by what resembles the animals in 1520 LE CHAMP DU DRAP D’OR that fit the description taken from TIMELY.