Puzzles

A contributing editor of this magazine, John de Cuevas ’52, is an inveterate perpetrator of puzzles with cryptic clues, and 35 of his...

A contributing editor of this magazine, John de Cuevas ’52, is an inveterate perpetrator of puzzles with cryptic clues, and 35 of his creations appeared in these pages between 1986 and 1998. They are now newly gathered on his website, www.puzzlecrypt.com.

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