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The Spelling Bee tries to teach the wildflowers about the birds and the bees
and is met with unenthusiasm and a rosy surprise ending.

Print out the Puzzle Page. Gather the key 94 keywords from the story and enter them into the proper lists. The first letter of each word is already provided. The words in green are entered as is. The riddles in yellow yield one word containing (X) letters or five words, each containing (X,X,X,X,X) letters. Only the solved riddle words are entered.

Print the Map Pieces, cut them out, and correctly assemble the map. This is not impossible. Keep all the pieces in their same vertical alignment. Use plain old jigsaw puzzle logic, keeping in mind you have to create lengthy horizontal/vertical blanks to contain all the twenty-seven 11-letter words.

Next, correctly enter all 94 keywords into the crisscross puzzle grid. This will leave you with 90 highlighted letters.

Enter these letters correctly into the Answer Grid, also found on the Puzzle Page. The answer is color-coded so that only certain letters are allowed in certain color-coded boxes.