November-December 2011 cryptic puzzle by John de Cuevas

Solve the latest creation of puzzlemaker John de Cuevas ’52.

 

"#2(2)" solvers

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

  1. Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
  2. Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO
  3. Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
  4. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
  5. Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
  6. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  7. Jackie Miller – Everett, MA
  8. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
  9. Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
  10. Joe Schrader – Hillsboro, OR

Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ

Tom Barnet – Spartanburg, SC

Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM

Eric Chipman – Boulder, CO

Don Coppersmith – Belle Mead, NJ

Al Damm – Marshall, WI

Norman W. Davis – Englewood, NJ

Joe Fendel '95 – Berkeley, CA

Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia

Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada

Richard Friedman '71 – Silver Spring, MD

Michael N. Geselowitz PhD '87 – Cedarhurst, NY

Kris Green – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Steve Gunter – Raleigh, NC

Richard Harrison – Portland, OR

Dick Holmes – Lake Bluff, IL

Ken Johnson – Springfield, MO

Al Kahn – Houston, TX

Eliot Kieval '84 – New York, NY

Jane Lehar – Lexington, MA

Bob Lundegaard – Minneapolis, MN

Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA

Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines

Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL

Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS

Itai Pines – Portland, OR

Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY

Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA

Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT

Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY

Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA

Wayne Scott – Jamaica Plain, MA

Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY

Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY

Donald R. Spaulding – Los Altos, CA

Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA

Claire Trazenfeld – Crownsville, MD

Margaret Webster  – Medford, MA

Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI

Find all 35 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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