May-June 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.

“Dean” 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. Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
  4. Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
  5. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
  6. Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines
  7. Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
  8. David L. Ratner '52 – Larkspur, CA
  9. Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA

10.  Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO

Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA

Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ

Tom Barnet – Spartanburg, SC

Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM

Kevin Cadmus – Columbus, OH

Eric Chipman – Boulder, CO

Don Coppersmith – Belle Mead, NJ

Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL

Joe Fendel '95 – Berkeley, CA

Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia

Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada

Richard Friedman '71 – Silver Spring, MD

Lewis Gee – Poway, CA

Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY

Michael Green – St. Louis, MO

Steve Gunter – Raleigh, NC

Richard Harrison – Portland, OR

David Hilliard – New York, NY

Wayne Jones  – Worcester, NY

Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA

Eliot Kieval '84 – New York, NY

Andy G. Klein '70 – Santa Monica, CA

Bob Lundegaard – Minneapolis, MN

Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico

Brian McCrady – Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Jackie Miller – Everett, MA

Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA

Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS

Segrid O'Gore – Seattle, WA

Harold Porosoff – Scarsdale, NY

Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD

Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY

Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY

Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA

Michael Savitz – Newton, MA

Wayne Scott – Jamaica Plain, MA

Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY

Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY

Jordan B. L. Smith '06 – London, UK

Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO

Charlie Varon – San Francisco, CA

Margaret Webster  – Medford, MA

Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA

Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI

 

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