Cryptic Puzzle: “Expansion”

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.

“Expansion” solvers

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

  1. Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
  2. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
  3. Brian McCrady – Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
  4. Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
  5. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
  6. Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
  7. Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
  8. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  9. Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO

10.  Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY

Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA

Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ

Tom Barnet – Spartanburg, SC

Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM

Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA

Don Coppersmith – Belle Mead, NJ

Al Damm – Marshall, WI

Joe Fendel '95 – Berkeley, CA

Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ

Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia

Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada

Richard Friedman '71 – Silver Spring, MD

Lewis Gee – Poway, CA

Mike Greenler – Methuen, MA

Steve Gunter – Raleigh, NC

Richard Harrison – Portland, OR

Greg Hartgraves – Mitchell, SD

David Hilliard – New York, NY

Dick Holmes – Lake Bluff, IL

Ken Johnson – Springfield, MO

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

Jane Lehar – Lexington, MA

Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL

Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA

Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines

Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS

Priscilla Olson – Framingham, MA

Itai Pines – Portland, OR

Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY

Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD

David L. Ratner '52 – Larkspur, CA

Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY

Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT

Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA

Michael Savitz – Newton, MA

Tomas Schonbek – Boca Raton, FL

Blanche Schulz – Chicago, IL

Dino Schweitzer – Divide, CO

Ron Scott – Minneapolis, MN

Jacob Scott – Berkely, CA

Wayne Scott – Jamaica Plain, MA

Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY

Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY

Donald R. Spaulding – Mount Kisco, NY

Howard Spilke '72 – Boston, MA

Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO

Karen Thornton – New York, NY

Stephen Throop – Grover, NC

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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