Puzzles | August 20, 2014

September-October 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.

“Dropouts” solvers

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

Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico
Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY
Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
Joe Schrader – Hillsboro, OR

Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Tom Barnet – Spartanburg, SC
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
Susan Courter – Macomb, IL
Al Damm – Marshall, WI
Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Paul Fees – Cody, WY
Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ
Matthew Field – Hastings, England
Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Richard Friedman '71 – Silver Spring, M
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
Michael Green – San Francisco, CA
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
Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
Eliot Kieval '84 – New York, NY
Kevin J. Kinne – Peoria, IL
Andy G. Klein '70 – Santa Monica, CA
Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL
Dave Libby – Concord, MA
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY
Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD
David L. Ratner '52 – Larkspur, CA
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Michael Savitz – Newton, MA
Dino Schweitzer – Divide, CO
Wayne Scott – Jamaica Plain, MA
Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY
Donald R. Spaulding – Mount Kisco, NY
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
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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