Solve the crossword, then enter a keyword into Certitude in order to receive the actual coordinates for the hide.
WVCW 6: Wait! A 1.5D Crossword from Phos4s?!
ACROSS
1 What we hide and seek
6 Legendary creature of Japanese folklore, part monkey, raccoon, tiger, and snake
8 Keenly
11 Post-dot at many academic institutions
12 Fido’s first word?
13 Sculpture with shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the background, as in basso ___
15 One of two Alexandros of Antioch’s Venus de Milo is missing
16 The City of New Orleans is one
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2 Tall, thin, with prominent bones, maybe
3 Stage signal
4 Rig belonging to Tina Copeland?
5 “Nothing Runs Like A ___”
7 What Justin Tucker might tell you he’d most like to insure?
9 Citrus beverage
10 Ullman of Scenes from a Marriage
14 “I Got Rhythm” lyricist Gershwin

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