Mar-Apr 2010 Cryptic Puzzle by John de Cuevas

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"Decline and Fall" solvers
(The first ten are listed in the order their solutions were received, the others alphabetically)

1. Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
2. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
3. Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Phillipines
4. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
5. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
6. Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
7. Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
8. Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD
9. Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
10. Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA

Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA
Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Tom Barnet – Spartanburg, SC
Peggy Bedell – Northampton, MA
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
Patricia Coppersmith – Venice, FL
Jeff Courtright – Bloomington, IL
Norman W. Davis – Englewood, NJ
Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Richard Friedman '71 – Silver Spring, MD
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
Ralph Jones  – Aurora, CO
Wayne Jones  – Worcester, NY
Al Kahn – Houston, TX
Doug Kouril –  Arlington, VA
Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL
Gary Levin – Morristown, NJ
Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico
Roy McLeese '81 – Washington, DC
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT
Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
Carolyn Roosevelt – Cambridge, MA
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Joe Schrader – Hillsboro, OR
Dexter Senft  – Bedford, NY
Carolyn G. & Robert M. Smith – Massena, NY
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
Edward Stejskal – Raleigh, NC
John Stuelpnagel – Baltimore, MD
Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
Margaret Webster  – Medford, MA
Laurel Wilson – New York, NY
Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI