Cross-Breeding (solution)

by Patrick Blindauer with input from Andrew Lin

Solvers need to reconstruct the alphabetic list of bigrams and trigrams into various AKC dog breeds, then place them into the boxes so they intersect at a common letter. The crossbreeds of each intersecting pair must then be placed on a diagonal so they cross both pure breeds, as shown. The shaded squares reveal the answer (CLINTON) from top to bottom.

BREEDS

BASSET HOUND
BOXER
CHINESE SHARPEI
CHOW CHOW
COCKER SPANIEL
DALMATIAN
GERMAN SHORTHAIRED POINTER
HAVANESE
LABRADOR RETRIEVER
MALTESE
PAPILLON
POMERANIAN
POODLE
SCOTTISH TERRIER

CROSS-BREEDS

BASCOTTIE
MALTIPOM
COCKAPOO
SHARMATIAN
BOXAPOINT
CHABRADOR
HAVALLON