CROSSWORD #1201: Letter Banking

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Brendan Quigley

LETTER BANKING: [ ACROSS LITE][ PDF]
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NOTE: In a letter bank, solvers use all of the given letters as many times as needed to make a longer word or phrase. For example, the letters of TOUCAN serve as a letter bank for ACCOUNTANT.

Shout out to Will Shortz who came up with this form (shocking, I know), and another shout out to Joshua Kosman and Henry Picciotto who regularly drop some eye-popping letter banks in their Nation cryptic.

Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.

1 thought on “CROSSWORD #1201: Letter Banking”

Dia says:

October 21, 2019 at 10:00 pm

Hmmm … not my fave. Not hard, but unfun …

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Brendan Emmett Quigley has been a professional puzzlemaker since 1996. In fact, he's the sixth-most published constructor in The New York Times under Will Shortz's editorship. Brendan's puzzles have also appeared in every major market including Creators Syndicate, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Crosswords Club, Dell Champion, Games Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Sun, Tribune Media Services, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.

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CROSSWORD #1201: Letter Banking

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