- CON
- Kind of game
- Swindle
- Take for a ride
- __ brio
- Jailer's charge
- Man in the pen
- Joint tenant
- Thimblerig
- Drawback
- Three-card Monte, e.g.
- One side of a formal debate
- Spam, often (and the start of a split order of rice porridge)
- One who didn't dodge a charge?
- Meeting for comic book enthusiasts or Santas, for short
- Crook
- It's a hoax
- Negative point
- Place to show off some cosplay
- Reason not to do something
- Annual meeting, for short
- Chili ___ carne
- Expo event, briefly
- Game whose outcome is predetermined
- Reason against
- Timekeeper?
- Minus
- Cell occupier
- Soft-serve holder
- Prisoner
- Jailbird
- Game that stings
- Hoodwink
- Anti
- Nonpro?
- Not at all pro
- Put one over on
- Hornswoggle
- Kingston Pen resident
- Pen pal?
- Cellmate
- Cooler guy?
- Fleece
- Sing Sing resident
- Bilk elaborately
- Flimflam
- Exercise-yard denizen
- Shell game, maybe
- Pen inhabitant
- Certain artist's specialty
- It'll take you
- Negative position
- Graybar hotel resident
- ___ Air (1997 movie)
- Felonious "artist"
- One behind bars
- One in the clink
- Lifer, e.g.
- Debate side
- Negative aspect
- Pen denizen
- Sting
- Pen resident
- Opposing argument
- Against
- Bamboozle
- Opposite of 22-Down
- Bunco artist's scheme
- Dead against
- Fool
- Pro's opposite
- Opposed
- Pen filler?
- Anti body?
- Character in Monopoly's "Jail" space
- Pull a fast one on
- Word before artist
- Clink denizen
- He's no pro
- Man with a sentence
- Pokey resident
- Dupe
- Grifter's game
- Person working on a sentence?
- ___ artist
- Trick out of money
- Long game
- 5-Down's first name, to Reverend Spooner
- Scam
- Lifer, for one
- Pull a scam
- Cheat
- Pen occupant
- Example of cooler living?
- Not pro
- Chili __ carne
- Game preceder
- Not behind
- Trick
- Big house resident
- Cooler denizen
- Record holder?
- Take
- Yardbird
- __ game
- Not supporting
- Pull a scam on
- Voting "nay"
- One side of an issue
- See 5-Down
- Cell user
- Disadvantage
- 4-Down
- Grifter's specialty
- Sell a bridge to, say?
- Vaya __ Dios
- Inmate
- One side of the fence
- Cell dweller
- Cell occupant
- Pen user
- It may look like a great deal
- Rip off
- Fast one, so to speak
- Mexican menu preposition
- Swindler
- Snow
- Sting operation
- Big gathering of fans, casually
- Intentionally mislead
- Pro opposite
- With: Sp.
- Arroz __ pollo
- Issue side
- Take in
- Opposite of pro
- Pro and __
- Bilk
- Shell game
- Swindler's setup
- Negative debate side
- Negative side of an issue
- One opposed
- Get, so to speak
- One voting "nay"
- Put something over on
- Deceive, informally
- One side of a debate
- Allegro __ brio
- Preposition in musical directions
- With 105 Down, swindler
- Pro's opponent
- Spanish Prisoner or pigeon drop
- Frequent tempo follower on scores
- See 38 Across
- Word often following a tempo
- Deceive
- Run a scam on
- Swindle or swindler
- A reason not to
- Negative side of a debate
- Swindle, informally
- Gull or rook
- With, in musical directions
- Much of the plot of "The Sting"
- Argument against
- Arroz ___ pollo
- One with a record
- Not approving of
- Prison inmate
- Antipathetic side
- Rook
- Cell inhabitant
- Nay sayer
- Pamplona preposition
- Café ___ leche
- With: Spanish
- Study.
- Read.
- Direct the steering of a ship.
- Scan with care.
- The argument against.
- Study or peruse.
- Gap between peaks.
- Learn.
- With: Ital.
- In opposition.
- Peruse.
- ___ amore.
- Peruse carefully
- A vote in opposition.
- Study carefully.
- Pore over.
- With: It.
- Opposing vote.
- Study closely.
- Type of game or man
- Steer.
- Pro's partner
- Inmate's pen pal
- Prefix with firm and form
- One in stir
- Slammer occupant
- One in the jug
- Kind of artist
- Pro's antithesis
- Pokey person
- Emulate Peter Funk
- Temporary beginner
- Pro's foe
- Scan or scam
- One in the cooler
- Snooker
- _____ amore (with love)
- Persuade by trickery
- Cell sojourner
- Sing Sing inhabitant
- Fan gathering, informally
- Opposing
- Ruse
- Specialty of some artists
- One in a pen
- One kept in the cooler
- Person behind bars, for short
- Bunko game
- Time server
- Side opposite 30-Down
- One found in a pen
- See 1-Across
- Caller on a cell phone?
- Downside
- Event name suffix
- See 13-Down
- One side of an argument
- Reason why not
- Flimflammer
- Kind of artist who's not very good?
- Suffix for a fan gathering
- Voting no
- Pro's counterpart
- Comic-___
- The False Good Samaritan, e.g.
- ___ Air
- One doing time
- Pro foe
- Jail cell resident
- Lifer, say
- Pen prisoner
- With 110-Down, scamming guys
- Pro offsetter
- Pull off a Ponzi scheme
- One in stripes
- Long ___ (elaborate deceit)
- Point against
- Opposite of 46-Down
- Arroz ___ pollo (chicken-and-rice dish)
- Bunco game
- Pull a fast one
- Artful dodge
- Felon
- Sting action
- Trite header
- See 35-Across
- Cell resident
- Lifer
- Sentence server
- Hoosegow resident
- Debate position and half of this puzzle's theme
- Note header
- Argument side
- Cellblock sojourner
- Attica insider?
- Make a study of
- A scam and this puzzle's theme
- Expert in pen-manship?
- Anti kin
- Man in a big house?
- Scam verb-ally?
- Kind of artist who might commit art fraud
- Scammer's scheme
- ___ artist (scammer)
- Negative position in a debate
- Word before "game" or "artist"
- Arroz ___ leche
- Criminal
- Unfavorable factor
- Debate position
- Type of artist or game
- Before trite
- Ex prisoner
- Game antecedent?
- Sentence finisher?
- Four flush
- Pro partner
- Take for a ride, e.g.
- Antipathetic one
- Big house man or woman
- Pro challenger
- Penitentiary occupant, briefly
- Bad kind of artist
- Little man in the big house?
- Swindler's scheme
- Grifter's action
- Voting 62-Down
- One in a cell
- Phisher's scheme
- Chili ___ queso
- Opposite of 6-Down
- Fandom's IRL meetup
- One without a cell phone?
- Cell body?
- Be a swindler
- Short record holder?
- Paranormal romance author Langlais
- Devious setup
- Opposed to
- Argument against a course of action
- Pro fighter
- Racket
- It's a minus, and what must be subtracted from 46-, 52- and 63-Across
- Non-pro, of a sort
- One in a big house?
- Prisoner who's escaped from this puzzle's theme answers
- Big gathering, for short