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Broken Heart Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 3/7/2013
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


#4 in the Puzzled Hearts series of caches, a series of 22 puzzle caches, all named after songs with 'heart' in the title.

For #1 to #21 all the information needed to solve the puzzles will be on the cache pages. In each of the containers you will find a clue needed for finding the final cache in the series. Please do not remove the clue from the container.

Broken Heart is a song by Dr Cryptic.  So to find this cache, you will need to solve this cryptic crossword.


Across:
1. Woman came out holding second image transmitter
5. Opening when he tired badly and wilted
9. In battle at Baltic capital, left a dingo
10. Cover friend before becoming pasty
11. Revolutionary? A liver problem, Maurice?
12. Some activity reported in old Phoenician city?
13. Kennedy ends with a model making money in Myanmar
14. Drag Liam out for an old part song
17. Pre-dinner drink makes Piaf tire badly
19. Put pressure an old Portuguese colony doctor
22. Senile lady?
24. Ruin tiara lost in Hope's fictitious land
25. Tossed the ore to this thing? 26. Opener managed bearing synthetic rubber
27. Delicate putting it in subordinate text
28. Alveoli the problem? Some old stone tool?

Down:
2. Ancient Greek province unusually hep, Cary
3. Fish go in for tradesman?
4. Hungarian silver Mary tossed outside
5. Tell love enemy called in for old king (7,2,6)
6. George first class? (3,5)
7. Back in Borstal Cedric shows brilliance
8. Tire badly with ear trouble in old part of Ethiopia
15. Where top brass's whisky ends up as a rule (2,7)
16. Begin with leading urger (5,3)
18. Gold dish on some high country
20. Not in favour of respected Ottoman official this month?
21. A way to dress light
23 Representative, in time, not starving


The cache can be found at:

N14 H8 O2 O4 A11: I8 I13 F6 G4 E13 B10 K12 E4 I2 J8 A9 M14 G4 I13 M8 M2 E3 O2 K12 G10 E14 A12 A15 C2 F4 I15 I8 M6 O2 I4

E15 A5 O1 K10: I8 B10 C3 E12 G2 O11 M8 A12 M11 I13 C14 H12 G4 M14 C14 K12 A12 M5 G2 H8 K12 E4

An additional hint: I found I needed 'zero' for the coordinates and had no 'z' in the crossword puzzle solution. So I had to re-write the coordinates to not use the word 'zero'.

Thanks to Malcolm for providing me with the crossword puzzle.


Additional Hints ()

oruvaq gur fueho, orlbaq gur gryrtencu cbyr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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