July-August 2013 cryptic puzzle by John de Cuevas

Solve the most recent creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52.

 

You can find all puzzles published in Harvard Magazine between 1986 and 1998 at John de Cuevas’s website, www.puzzlecrypt.com, under Harvard Puzzles. You will also find additional puzzles and contact information there and can subscribe to his mailing list.

"Big Brother" solvers

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

  1. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
  2. Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
  3. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  4. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
  5. Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
  6. Steve Gunter – Raleigh, NC
  7. Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
  8. Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
  9. Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
  10. Eliot Kieval '84 – New York, NY

Darreby Ambler – Bath, ME

Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA

Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ

Tom Barnet – Spartanburg, SC

Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM

Kevin Cadmus – Columbus, OH

Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL

Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA

Al Damm – Marshall, WI

Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL

Joe Fendel '95 – Berkeley, CA

Matthew Field – Hastings, England

Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia

Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada

Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY

Michael Green – St. Louis, MO

Richard Harrison – Portland, OR

Jim Hartney – Martinez, CA

David Hilliard – New York, NY

Ken Johnson – Springfield, MO

Wayne Jones  – Worcester, NY

Al Kahn '63 – Houston, TX

Eileen Kleiman and Peter Lurye – New York, NY

Steve Kowarsky '68 – Melville, NY

Brian McCrady – Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Jackie Miller – Everett, MA

Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines

Patrick D. Phillips – Bainbridge Island, WA

Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY

Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD

David L. Ratner '52 – Larkspur, CA

Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY

Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT

Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY

Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA

Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO

Michael Savitz – Newton, MA

Wayne Scott – Jamaica Plain, MA

Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY

Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY

Jordan B. L. Smith '06 – London, UK

Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO

Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD

Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI

 

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