Land Survey

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Across
  1. 2. Whatsurveyors use to stay ‘on course,’ like Santa following his route down
  2. 4. What elves must get before building toys on a lot
  3. 5. The North Pole’s vertical datum (magically stable all year!)
  4. 8. Checking your list twice equals surveyors doing this to data
  5. 10. Holiday-sounding word for the distance east or west of a meridian
  6. 13. Seasonal term for a boundary that’s been “gift-wrapped” incorrectly
  7. 15. A snowy tool for measuring distances (but not quite a toboggan!)
Down
  1. 1. Holiday marker you might find at the North Pole’s property corner
  2. 3. Rudolph uses his nose; surveyors use this to see in low-light
  3. 6. Gift you don’t want from a landowner: a festive one of these disputes
  4. 7. A legal boundary description more complex than Santa’s naughty list
  5. 9. What field crews sip to warm up after winter surveys
  6. 11. What Santa checks twice, and surveyors do with boundary lines
  7. 12. What survey crews hope the weather doesn’t do on Christmas Eve
  8. 14. Reindeer love flying over these contour drawings