"Ai, bandito, i do not have internet access
today on this stupid boat! That means i cannot solve any puzzles
today." said la bandita dejectedly.
"But I sent you a whole magazine full of
puzzles just last week!" replied bandito.
"I have already finished all of those," she
moaned.
Ever the voice of reason, bandito replied,
"Then do some reverse engineering. Pick out your favorite kind of
puzzle and make one of your own. Then we will inflict it on the
good people of Dayton."
And la bandita accepted his challenge.
The letters in this crossword grid are encrypted. Each number
(1-26) represents a different letter, and each letter of the
alphabet will be used at least once. The charts will help you keep
your letters and numbers straight. When you've solved the puzzle,
turn the letters back into numbers to find the cache
coordinates.
Note: One or two, maybe three, of the words contained in the puzzle
may not be words recognized by Merriam-Webster. However, they are
common terms in geospeak. Therefore, consider words recognized by
your Scrabble dictionary plus geospeak terms when solving this
puzzle.
N 39° WZBQN W 084° THWJ
You can check your answer for this enigma
here.
Once you have the numbers and go there, look for a boot cleaner.
Yep, you heard us right. A boot cleaner.