Crossword Lover's Cache Mystery Cache
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What better way to relax on a Sunday than do a crossword and find a geocache? The cache is in Cutler Park, but not at the posted coordinates. After solving a simple crossword and after a simple hike, you'll have the cache in hand.
The Puzzle
In order to find the cache, you must first solve the crossword puzzle below. After completing the crossword you will have a key to a Vignere Autokey cipher which is used to unlock the next piece of the puzzle. That piece will lead you to the cache.
The Crossword
Across
1. Sports World Tour
4. One of many found on a neck
8. Late Jackass
12. "Hurt ____"
18. Black belt rank
19. Start of an article
20. Plumber recently celebrated a 30th anniversary
21. Like some fancy movie theaters
22. Grandpa Simpson
23. Computer animation option
25. Some harvesters
26. "Not only that ..."
28. Noble's Partner
29. Elevs.
31. "Looks ____ everything"
32. Sub
33. Teeing off
34. Biblical mount
36. X-ray dosages
37. Anterooms
39. Epicurean delight
41. Paid (up)
42. When one might receive a hot towel
45. Crude dudes
49. Name on an armored truck
50. Is adamant about that lunchbox on eBay
51. Alternately
52. Often found in geocaches
53. Portents
54. Presidential nickname
55. Half of Brangelina
56. "I can clearly see that" in textspeak
59. Luke Skywalker's aunt
60. Lead-in to the roses or the worlds
62. Memorable time
63. How to find the key
69. Sugary suffix
70. View
71. Escape route
72. Overly
73. "(I just) ____ in your arms"
75. When repeated, how the internet eats
76. Deliver a final blow
77. Show saver
81. Nine of diamonds?
83. Menacing snake
84. "Ironic" singer
86. "Open" autobiographer
87. Marley's accompaniment
88. You might avoid a hot one
89. Real
91. California wine county
92. Punch line?
95. Titled Brits
96. Trims
99. Capital of Italia
101. City in which to get plastered?
103. Capital of Germany?
104. Professor Farnsworth
105. Hindu titles
106. Oscar winner, but not for "Folks!"
108. Modern fortune teller
111. Ques. response
112. "____ Floss"
113. Like some angles
114. French sword
115. Not yet sched.
116. Goofs off
117. Bags
118. "<"
119. Unspecified number
Down
1. Make fit
2. Dinner reservation
3. Pulmonary problem
4. ____ Rida
5. Cardinals
6. Whodunit awards (named for a Boston native)
7. Country singer Gibbs
8. Code bits
9. Psychic exposed as a fraud by Johnny
10. Saint with a sack
11. Blowhole
12. Eye liner?
13. A description of this clue?
14. Fruit flavored soft drink
15. "MASH" setting
16. Fix
17. In early videogames you had these instead of lives
20. Compressed video file format
24. Cape ___, MA
27. Watching without being watched
30. Brief moment
34. Obeys
35. Space opera set in the 23rd century
38. "___! the cat"
39. Roger Bannister broke it
40. PC monitor
41. "Downton Abbey" network
42. Hitch
43. Come back from adjournment
44. "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" screenwright
46. True partner?
47. Between, in Brest
48. Relatively cool red giant
51. Adriatic port
54. Furniture movers
57. Eight in a byte
58. One step up from a four-cylinder
60. Scribe
61. ___ Fighters
63. Speakers' platforms
64. On drugs
65. Mrs. Mulder on "The X-Files"
66. 1961 space chimp
67. Government-in-____
68. Certain muscles
74. 2009 film set in South Africa
76. Potting mixtures
78. Fiancee, say
79. Thiamine
80. Boo Boo, in Barcelona
82. Covert org.
83. Former TV award
84. Followers
85. Chilling Chaney
87. Electrician
90. Prank
91. Mexican wrap
92. Sends junk email
93. Desert mount
94. Team building?
96. Purplish
97. Blood letters
98. Mutiny
100. Test
102. Oft-quoted auth.
104. Google results
107. Hollow center?
109. Has more nerve endings than the brain, according to Colbert
110. ___ Paul
The Cipher
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The Cache
The cache is located somewhere in Cutler Park. Trails will bring you to within about 30 feet of the cache container, so follow the trails until you are close (there are trails, I promise, you don't need to bushwhack a tenth of a mile). A trail map is available for download here:
Trail Map PDF
(Thanks Robar!)
Depending on the time of year, the trails may be wet and muddy, so be prepared. This cache is placed within the guidelines approved by the DCR and is only available from dawn to dusk.
A book of New York Times crossword puzzles is in the cache for the first to find/first to take. Enjoy!
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
Additional Hints
(No hints available.)