May-June 2014 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 III” solvers

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

  1. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  2. Brian McCrady – Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
  3. Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
  4. Itai Pines – Portland, OR
  5. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
  6. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
  7. Donald R. Spaulding – Mount Kisco, NY
  8. Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
  9. Dave Kaplan – New City, NY

10.  Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO

Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ

Dorothy Juhlin Bank – Hillsborough, NC

Tom Barnet – Spartanburg, SC

Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM

Barry Brandes – Purdys, NY

Eric Chipman – Boulder, CO

Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA

Susan Courter – Macomb, IL

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 Green – St. Louis, MO

Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY

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

Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL

Carol Marsh – Washington, DC

Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA

Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines

Kiki Neely – Waban, MA

Jeff Neuhauser – Baltimore, Maryland

Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS

Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY

David L. Ratner '52 – Larkspur, CA

Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY

Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA

Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT

Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY

Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA

Michael Savitz – Newton, MA

Dino Schweitzer – Divide, CO

Wayne Scott – Jamaica Plain, MA

Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY

Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY

Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO

Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD

Margaret Webster  – Medford, MA

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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