First Things First Mystery Cache
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Guidelines:
The cache is not at the posted coordinates but within a mile.
You do not have to solve all 10 of the crosswords to solve the puzzle.
Clues (both crossword and how-to) are drawn from:
Radio, TV, Movies, History, Geography and Sports.
The 10 crosswords are first names.
Bing (rather than Google), IMDB, and Wikipedia are essential resources.
Google often does better with a few well chosen key words than a long phrase.
To continue you must find the connection between the crosswords. How-to hints tell you how to proceed.
In the end use IMDB to count.
Across
A. Musician sans green card (6 letters)
B. Robbed in Florida; how inconvenient (2 letters)
C. Wonderful Christmas angel (8 letters)
D. Bodega Bay (et al.) menace (7 letters)
E. 50's comic problem child (6 letters)
F. He sat on the shoulder of an huge angel looking down on the city (5 letters)
Down
G. Ma Bell's namesake (9 letters)
H. Funiculi-Funicula weekdays for 18 years (7 letters)
I. First Redstone rider (4 letters)
J. Sinatra character (4 letters)
How-to Hints (read solutions in order given)
Seattle's baseball Edgar's position (2 letters)
6° * Smith's follow-on venture (7 letters) _ A _ _ O _ _ (translate math into English)
Hollywood who-done-it? (7 letters) _ _ E _ I _ _
1-2-3 horse wager (4 letters)
Nickname of TV mathematical vampire (8 letters) _ _ E _ O _ _ _
Cache is at:
N47 [3A+B] [3E+F] . [2C+D][3G+H][4I+J]
W122 [2E+F] [2B+A] . [2H+G][2I+C][2J+3D]
If the result of a digit calculation is 2-digits, drop the left-most digit.
Hint #1 (12/01/2012):
6° * = Smith
H = Jones
A = 8
Hint #2 (6/2/2013):
A is film actor
B is from Tennessee
C is film character
D is named after holy man
E is TV character
F is film actor (see image hint)
G is inventor
H is radio soap character
I is Right Stuff person
J is musical title character
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
15 qvtvg purpx fhz = 53
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nobhg 6 srrg nobir gur genvy.
Erdhverf n fgergpu.
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