September-October 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.


“Dean II” solvers

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

1.     Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO

2.     Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI

3.     Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA

4.     Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA

5.     Stephen Throop – Grover, NC

6.     Itai Pines – Portland, OR

7.     David L. Ratner '52 – Larkspur, CA

8.     Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA

9.     Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY

10.     Donald R. Spaulding – Mountain View, CA

Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ

Barry Brandes – Purdys, NY

Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM

Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL

Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA

Don Coppersmith – Belle Mead, NJ

Patricia Coppersmith – Venice, FL

Al Damm – Marshall, WI

Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL

Matthew Field – Hastings, England

Joe Fendel '95 – Berkeley, CA

Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia

Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada

Richard Friedman '71 – Silver Spring, MD

Lewis Gee – Poway, CA

Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY

Michael Green – St. Louis, MO

Peter Green – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Steve Gunter – Raleigh, NC

Richard Harrison – Portland, OR

Greg Hartgraves – Sioux Falls, SD

Jim Hartney – Martinez, CA

David Hilliard – New York, NY

Dick Holmes – Lake Bluff, IL

Wayne Jones  – Worcester, NY

Al Kahn '63 – Houston, TX

Dave Kaplan – New City, NY

Eliot Kieval '84 – New York, NY

Kevin J. Kinne – Peoria, IL

Andy G. Klein '70 – Santa Monica, CA

Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY

Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL

Bob Lundegaard – Minneapolis, MN

Carol Marsh – Washington, DC

Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico

Brian McCrady – Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines

Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS

Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY

Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY

Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT

Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA

Joe Schrader – Hillsboro, OR

Dino Schweitzer – Divide, CO

Wayne Scott – Jamaica Plain, MA

Jordan B. L. Smith '06 – London, UK

Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO

Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD

Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA

Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI

 

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.

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