CRESCENT CITY BLUES

by Mike Selinker

Solution: STOCKJOBBING

Various nine-letter things associated with New Orleans have been blown into their component trigrams and scattered about.

AND OUI LLE

CRA WDA DDY

ECD YSI AST

ETO UFF EES

GRE ENW AVE

LAK EFR ONT

LEV EEW ALL

NIN THW ARD

STR EET CAR

SUG ARB OWL

SUP ERD OME

SWI NGB AND

TRO MBO NES

Some ten-letter things have also been sprinkled in, each with a trigram missing a fourth letter.

LOU I(S)IA NAN

PRO STI TU(T)E

VO(O)D OOD OLL

VIE UX(C)A RRE

DOC KWO R(K)ER

(J)AMB ALA YAS

FAT SDO MIN(O)

AUD U(B)ON ZOO

THR OW(B)E ADS

REG G(I)EB USH

BYR O(N)SC OTT

MAY ORN A(G)IN

The missing letters from top to bottom spell STOCKJOBBING.