Cryptic Puzzle "Italian Connection"

Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas '52

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"The Italian Connection" solvers

(The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically)

  1. Judy Adamski -- Jenison, MI
  2. Dwight Freund -- Sacramento, CA
  3. Norman W. Davis -- Englewood, NJ
  4. Ned Robert -- Los Gatos, CA
  5. Rick Kasten -- Alexandria, VA
  6. Allan Mayoff -- San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico
  7. Jim Christenson -- Port Townsend, WA
  8. Joe Rogers -- Old Greenwich, CT
  9. Stan Rehm '68 -- Madison, WI
  10. Al Damm -- Marshall, WI

Al Backiel -- Ridgewood, NJ
Peggy Bedell -- Northampton, MA
Robert Brown -- Albuquerque, NM
Cathy Childs -- Pompano Beach, FL
Don Coppersmith (PhD '77) -- Belle Mead, NJ
Noam D. Elkies (AM '86, PhD '87) --
Stan Francuz -- Forster NSW, Australia
Warren Fraser -- Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Richard Friedman '71 -- Silver Spring, MD
Lewis Gee -- Poway, CA
Michael N. Geselowitz -- Cedarhurst, NY
Dick Holmes -- Lake Bluff, IL
Al Kahn -- Houston, TX
Dave Kaplan -- New City, NY
Doug Kouril -- Arlington, VA
Stan Kurzban -- Chappaqua, NY
Daniel J. Milton -- Vienna, VA
Mary Lyndal Nyberg -- Manhattan, KS
Andrew Oakes -- Half Moon Bay, CA
Patrick D. Phillips -- Bainbridge Island, WA
Huw Powell -- Lee, NH
Mordy Rosen -- Berkeley, CA
Al Sanders -- Fort Collins, CO
Dexter Senft -- Bedford, NY
Donald Stanley -- Littleton, CO
Edward Stejskal -- Raleigh, NC
John Stuelpnagel -- Baltimore, MD
Steve Tice -- Great Falls, VA
Claire Trazenfeld -- Crownsville, MD
Margaret Webster -- Medford, MA
Thomas Wilson -- South Williamsport, PA
Jay Winter -- Farmington Hills, MI

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