November-December 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.

"HarvardX" solvers

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

  1. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  2. Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
  3. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
  4. Itai Pines – Portland, OR
  5. Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
  6. Steve Gunter – Raleigh, NC
  7. Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
  8. Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
  9. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
  10. Richard Harrison – Portland, OR

Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA

Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ

Tom Barnet – Spartanburg, SC

Barry Brandes – Purdys, NY

Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM

Eric Chipman – Boulder, CO

Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA

Don Coppersmith – Belle Mead, NJ

Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL

Joe Fendel '95 – Berkeley, CA

Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ

William Flis – Philadelphia, PA

Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia

Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada

Richard Friedman '71 – Silver Spring, MD

Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY

Michael Green – St. Louis, MO

Peter Green – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Greg Hartgraves – Mitchell, SD

Dick Holmes – Lake Bluff, IL

Wayne Jones  – Worcester, NY

Al Kahn '63 – Houston, TX

Eliot Kieval '84 – New York, NY

Kevin J. Kinne – Peoria, IL 

Andy G. Klein '70 – Santa Monica, CA

Richard Letourneau – FL

Carol Marsh – Washington, DC

Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA

Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS

Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY

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

Joe Schrader – Hillsboro, OR

Dino Schweitzer – Divide, CO

Wayne Scott – Jamaica Plain, MA

Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY

Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY

Donald R. Spaulding – Mountain View, CA

Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO

Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA

Margaret Webster  – Medford, MA

Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA

Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI

 

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