🏖 Ten real Vancouver Island beaches are hiding in this interlocking grid. Read the numbered clues, then fit each answer into the squares where it crosses the others — a full word bank is printed below to help. The answer key sits at the bottom — fold it backward along the dotted line before you start.
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A criss-cross plays like a crossword, but every answer is already listed in the word bank — your job is to work out where each one fits. Here's the method:
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Beaches of Vancouver Island fits ten real, well-loved beaches into one interlocking grid — from CHESTERMAN and LONG BEACH out on the wild west coast, to RATHTREVOR, PARKSVILLE, and QUALICUM along the calmer Salish Sea side, up to STOREY near Port Hardy on the North Island, and out to TRIBUNE BAY on Hornby Island. Because every answer also appears in the word bank below, it plays fair as a Medium puzzle: the challenge is placement and the crossings, not obscure vocabulary — though knowing your Island geography certainly helps.