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 |