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Across 1. Last Mexican governor of then-Alta California (2 Words) 5. Could be Dawn or Coast 12. It's first commander was Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston (2 Words) 13. California's biggest error? (3 Words) 14. The Great Pathfinder John _______ 15. Oldest living things on earth are this species of pine 16. 450 miles long and up to 60 miles wide (2 Words) 18. Antelope Valley's most famous inhabitant (2 Words) 20. Pomo word for "Valley of the Moon" 22. "Artichoke Capital of the World" 26. Largest county in California (2 Words) 30. Milton Friedman died here (2 Words) 33. You don't need to visit the Big Apple catch rays at this beach 34. Yucca brevifolia. Also has its own national park. (2 Words) 37. Most famous sign of the American film industry 38. Year of statehood, to Caesar 39. TV detective Columbo's employer, abbr. 40. River that runs through Yosemite National Park 41. Valley that is home to Palm Springs and Cathedral City 42. Fray Serra 43. Most disliked color in 2003? 44. Named for 18th century Anglo-Irish philosopher George 46. With "The", Famous auditorium in San Francisco named after the US President who admitted California to the Union 49. 19th-century Imperial Russian trading post (2 Words) 53. World's 2nd rarest pine, found only in California in two places 55. Highest mountain in California 56. Saline soda lake famous for its tufa towers 57. Shared river with four other states 58. State motto 60. Yorba Linda' most infamous son 64. Discovered gold in 1848 66. San Diego de _______ 67. First incorporated city in California (2 Words) 71. _______-Borrego 72. County named for the last of California's 21 old missions 73. First native Californian governor 74. California's first governor Peter 75. Naturalist who wrote First Summer in the Sierra 76. Longest undammed river in California

Down 2. Five of eight are owned by the US Department of the Interior (2 Words) 3. John C. Fremont Expedition's cartographer Edward _______ 4. US-Mexico treaty under which California was ceded to the USA (2 Words) 6. Rancho ______ (2 Words) 7. Location of Tao House 8. Governor from 1967-1975 (2 Words) 9. Yuma's tiny cross-border neighbor on I-8 10. First American to travel up the California coast to Oregon Country (2 Words) 11. HQ city for Warner Brothers 17. Where gold was discovered in 1848 (2 Words) 19. Thousand _______ 21. Name of oldest living organism on earth, at 4,789 years, which is at Inyo National Forest 23. Cows don't actually graze at this airplane "graveyard" 24. Westernmost pt. in the Lower 48 25. California's first Christian martyr (2 Words) 27. River originally known as Rio de los Santos Reyes 28. Largest lake in California (2 Words) 29. Former HQ city for Douglas Aircraft Co. (2 Words) 31. Discovered California in 1542 32. Second capital of California 35. The Shasta dams it 36. Least populous county in California 41. City where thinking differently is encouraged 45. Northwesternmost county (2 Words) 47. County created in 1907 named after a land colonization company 48. Big _______ 50. Butte County seat 51. _______ sempervirens 52. Unofficial state mineral with atomic number of 14 54. County which shares a name with counties in 7 other states 59. The second national part created in California 61. A famous college drop-out lived and died here (2 Words) 62. California's only active volcano 63. Thousand _______ 64. Anglicized version of the Chumash word Humaliwo, which means "the surf sounds loudly" 65. The first in this wildly successful chain of burger joints opened in Baldwin Park in 1948 68. Playright Eugene _______, who held a residence at Tao House 69. California's junior US senator 70. Famous Glendale resident John _______