Still wondering about the meanings of the clues in the 2020 Love Your Melon Presents Pioneer Press Treasure hunt? The medallion was found in Highland Park early Tuesday morning, shortly after Clue 10 was published.

Here is the complete set of clues, along with explanations.

Clue 1

There’s just enough snow and temperatures low

To rouse us from our snoozing

And hide the MacGuffin, no we ain’t bluffin,

In a park of our very own choosing.

The Vikings are done, the Twins yet begun

What excuse do you have to dawdle?

Gather your kin, prepare for the win

And be sure to bring a hot bottle

(We mildly complain about a too temperate year for the Treasure Hunt — though that is expected to change the day or two before the hunt begins. We also tell you it’s in a park. The MacGuffin is a nebulous thing we all desperately seek, a term famously used by Alfred Hitchcock in describing the plot driver for some of his movies. In our case, the MacGuffin is the medallion. The giveaway here is the MacGuffin is a Scottish name, appropriate for the park in which our MacGuffin is hidden: Highland Park. In addition, “kin” is a popular word among Scots.)

Clue 2

Though the times be quite peachy, we do so beseech ye,

To venture out of doors for a romp

As you traipse through the snow, your medallions aglow,

Careful flora you do not stomp

(“Peachy” is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump and “medallions aglow” reminds hunters that they should get the light-up medallion, not the Winter Carnival button, if they are to have a chance at the full prize. We warn heavy-footed hunters from stomping on delicate vegetation, especially that on golf courses, which are off-limits. Highland Park boasts not one but two golf courses.)

Clue 3

This hunt’s guarantor settles that forevermore

Noodlers treasure noggins; keep that in mind.

So doff your warm cap, study dog-eared map

And genuflect in the presence of the find.

(A nod to sponsor Love Your Melon that lets hunters know the treasure is in a head. “Dog-eared” is a reference to Snoopy, of “Peanuts” fame. Peanuts” was created by St. Paul’s son Charles Schulz, who has a Highland Park ice arena named after him: The Charles M. Schulz-Highland Arena. “Genuflect” tells hunters to get down on one knee to find the medallion.)

Clue 4

One patterned neat and trim, one salvaged life and limb

Did the two cutters who lived down the way.

Herringbones or sawbones?

You decide which will play.

(Foreman, the head of Foreman & Clark’s men’s clothing store (popular for its suits), and Donald Lannin, orthopedic surgeon and first and longtime physician for the Minnesota Vikings, were longtime neighbors on Edgcumbe Road, several blocks away from where the medallion was hidden in Highland Park. The reference to play refers to the fact that like Lannin, Foreman also had a connection to sports: He often used Minnesota Twins great Harmon Killebrew in his advertisements.)

Clue 5

We will protect each clue from the GRU

Nyet hackers! Have you no shame?

They may fix our elections, but we’ll spark insurrection,

If they try to interfere with our game

(There are several Russian connections to Highland Park, including a large immigrant population of Jews from the former Soviet Union (they get low-cost services at the St. Paul Jewish Community Center in Highland through the Russian American Jews in Minnesota organization. Also, the Highland Park Library has a special collection of books that were originally written in or translated into Russian.)

Clue 6

Once at the summit, it did quite plummet

Before it got to the bluff

Starting and stopping, winding and hopping

It will eventually lead to the stuff

(This clue refers to Edgcumbe Road, which wends its way throughout Highland Park, including past the site of the medallion. This road goes up and down, curves, goes straight, and has right corners. Years ago, Edgcumbe was called South Summit as there were city plans to connect it to Summit Avenue along the bluff Linwood Park now occupies.)

Clue 7

If you’re in town, swing on down

To a park lit up some nights

Before it gets hotter, line three bodies water

And you’ll have it in your sites

(The first two lines “swing on down” and “lights” allude to Circus Juventas, which is in Highland Park near the municipal aquatic center and across Montreal from where the medallion is hidden. The second two lines ask you to look at an aerial view of the park, note the aquatic center in the park and a private pool just outside it, and remember that there was once a municipal pool on the north side of Montreal. Line the three up, and that line goes right through the hiding spot.)

Clue 8

Water is grand in our hunt’s land

Up above our site and lower.

You won’t need suit nor rubber boot

If you walk amongst the bower.

(Highland Park has plenty of water features, including pools, nearby water towers above the hiding site and the Mississippi River below. Our descriptors are something of a red herring, for Battle Creek Regional Park shares land with Upper and Lower Afton roads. We felt OK with that fish, though, as Upper and Lower St. Dennis roads are near the hiding spot. “You won’t need suit nor rubber boot” directs hunters away from water features and into the “bower,” or woods.)

Clue 9

A coal man had a plan

To lay down roots in St. Paul.

His path proffers good math –

Even though short of hill it does fall.

(“Coal man” is Saunders, who has a street named after him in Highland Park near where he farmed in Highland Park. Along with James J. Hill, he was co-founder of the Northwestern Fuel Co. Following his street to the east past where it ends at Snelling brings hunters to the puck, set at the bottom of a hill.)

Clue 10

A lover’s fix under tangle of sticks

The medallion scratches hunters’ itches.

Where bridge spans a gap; nearby a trap.

Line up putts that are pitches.

(A “lover’s fix” is an anagram for Silver Fox, the men’s group that holds annual booyas at the Highland Park booya shed. Landmarks, including the bridge over Montreal Avenue, the Edgcumbe Road bridge, and the trapping targets on the disc golf course, lead hunters closer to the medallion. Finally, if hunters follow the path of the disc golf course, “putts that are pitches,” they’ll come near the hiding spot.)

Clue 11

This is our pledge if you’re on edge

We’ll get you to the prize.

As you toss your cares, pay heed to stares

And get low to avoid the cries.

(“… if you’re on edge” refers to the puck’s location near Edgcumbe Road, adjacent to the disc golf course where plenty of discs get tossed. Because hunters might be treading on fairways, we direct them to watch for the hard stare of golfers and the sets of stairs that lead down to the prize’s hiding spot. The low-lying location will keep hunters safe from any insults hurled by players.)

Clue 12

If you’ve found you’ve been around

Every park in the county,

You need to go with those in the know

Highland Park’s where we hid the bounty.

Our talk of pitches and of itches

Leads to an important fact:

‘Tween holes 13 and 14, in a wooded ravine

Is a spot about to be sacked.

At the bottom of the stairs, in singles or pairs,

Start your journey to dry pool.

Step over small tree, then strides seven plus three

Lead to something very cool.

Down to the right, at squirrel’s height

Is a recess in a small pile of brush.

Reach inside and withdraw with pride

The noggin that will give you a rush

(After potentially taking a tour of our county parks, hunters should find themselves at Highland Park, in a ravine near Edgcumbe Road and the disc golf course. By following stairs to the bottom of the ravine and heading south toward the old pool site (which is one of three bodies of water that align with the hiding spot — the others are the park’s aquatic center farther south and a residential pool just north of Edgcumbe), hunters should be focused on low-lying areas for the medallion — they might even have to kneel, or genuflect, to reach for the prize — which this year was hidden in a doll’s head and secreted in a gap among a collection of sticks.)