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WVCW 1: Phos n JAF's Minds Have Really Gone South! Mystery Cache

Hidden : 11/30/2021
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Solve the crossword puzzle and the puzzle within it, then enter your single-word solution (a noun) in Certitude in order to receive the coordinates for the actual hide location.

 

Phos, Georgea, & Grace Have Really Gone South This Time!

 

Across

 

1     Team originally owned by the Labatt Brewing Company and winner of two World Series

8     Popular insecticide which once contained carbaryl

13   Short for an artificial lens often used as part of cataract surgery

14   Always

15   Jaguar, for example

16   Kings and emperors

18   Rainbow flowers?

19   ___ Noki Paayum Thota, 2019 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film

20   Scandalous or controversial matters

21   Mia Kim?

23   Cyril E. King Airport in the U. S. Virgin Islands

24   Founded in 1880s, now part of the U. S. DHHS and located in Bethesda and elsewhere

27   Dickens’ Grip and the predicter of the king’s murder in Macbeth

31   Lincolns between 1981 and 2011

35   Having wings or wing-like parts

37   Preside

38   Brown, yellow-eyed, and pink-backed

40   Hardest part of teeth

41   Philip the Amorous or Louis the Great

42   What Paul Southworth, OBE, directed

45   Med. Officer aboard a small, square-rigged sailing warship with two or three masts?

49   Freddie and Frieda of Bowling Green State University and Frightful of My Side of the Mountain

51   Ted Hughes poem “The ___ and the Cold”

52   A dog might dream ___?

53   Carroll’s cunning carpenter’s accomplice and what the Beatles sang after the egg men

56   Troops may pass in it

57   Matty or Felipe

58   Half a dangerous fly

59   Bobs, dips

60   Most disgustingly immoral

 

 

DOWN

 

1     Snares for baboons, bonobos, and you and me?

2     Belgian figure skater Hendrickx

3     They pair nicely with radii

4     Un ___ joué par des enfants français

5     Nom de plume of Edward Irving Wortis, whose Crispin won the Newbery Medal in 2003

6     It made Streisand the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major studio film

7     Handy letters for auto airbags, a nuclear reservation in SC, and strontium sulfide

8     From whom a lord received substantial grain

9     Famous Walt’s dad

10   What you may pay and not lose a cent (with a)

11   Helium, the smallest and most ___ of the noble gases

12   Frequent follower of Eliot and Loch

15   Hitch for connecting a cargo attachment to the back of a large vehicle, such as a truck

17   Young who won Best Supporting Actor Oscar for They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)

22   “Begin again at once!”

24   Yellowknife is its cap.

25   Estab. on 23 June 1894, this non-profit’s vision is to Build a Better World through Sport

26   Last thought for some before outening the light?

28   Top Gun’s Iceman and Numb3rs’ Mason

29   He was the penultimate Israelite judge, before the advent of the Kings of Israel and Judah

30   Controversial dietary supplement used to treat Covid-19

32   2012 Nathaniel Bellows work subtitled a novel in stories

33   Subject of Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes

34   It was golden in Algren’s 1949 novel, praised by Vonnegut, Sandburg, and Hemingway

36   Honoree of Asteroid 81948, discovered by Marc Buie

39   Highly useful element, at. no. 14

42   Yohann, whose quotes include “Life is an escape from emptiness; death may be a return to it.”

43   Wolf tracked via GPS-GSM wildlife collar by University of Ljubljana’s Biology Department

44   Turkish film about hunger, starring Soray as Meryem and Keskinoglu as Hasan

45   “Democracy is a device that ensures we ___ be governed no better than we deserve” (G. B. Shaw)

46   Univ. in DE founded in 1842 by Methodist leaders and now a member of the Ohio Five

47   Defeat soundly

48   Cultivate, especially by applying manure or fertilizer to

49   Cross a stream, maybe

50   Wealth or means for Epictetus and Phaedrus

53   Beyoncé’s “I ___ Here”

54   Written statement regarding a proposed business arrangement, in short

55   The Pogues’ ___ Sodomy & the Lash




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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Nyy lbh arrq vf jvguva gur pebffjbeq vgfrys--rkprcg sbe gur npghny pbbeqvangrf bs gur uvqr, juvpu lbh'yy erprvir sebz Pregvghqr.

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)