Hoaxes, Frauds, & Tricksters

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Across

  1. Tawana Brawley hoaxer
  2. The beast known as Sasquatch
  3. "War of the Worlds" trickster
  4. Alleged victim in Rolling Stone story
  5. UFO town in NM
  6. Hoax involving the Fab Four (3 words)
  7. Big date for tricksters (2 words)
  8. Stern magazine fell for his "Diaries"
  9. Anchor who pushed fake Bush story
  10. He, a major element in 2009 balloon boy hoax
  11. Manti Te'o's mythical pal
  12. Phineas Taylor, hoaxer supreme

Down

  1. University smeared by Rolling Stone
  2. Fictitious monster ... we think!!
  3. Clifford Irving's fake bio subject
  4. "Man," the missing link!!
  5. The only female pontiff, it was rumored
  6. Sport of Duke victims
  7. Bogus "Protocols" of anti-semitism (3 words)
  8. Fabulist Jayson Blair's employer
  9. The New Republic's shattered Glass
  10. Marathon "won" by Rosie Ruiz
  11. Prize for WaPo fraudster Janet Cooke
  12. Crop hoaxes
  13. 1869 "Giant" of a hoax


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