The letters omitted from across words (in parentheses in the list below) spell
AT THE DROP OF A HAT

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

1. Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
2. Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
3. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
4. Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ
5. Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
6. Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
7. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
8. Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
9. Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
10. Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA

Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA
Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Henry Cook – Chicago, IL
Patricia Coppersmith – Venice, FL
David Coverdale – Bowling Green, KY
Al Damm – Marshall, WI
Norman W. Davis – Englewood, NJ
David Durfee – Petersburgh, NY
Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Edward Gee – Richmond, VA
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Michael N. Geselowitz – Cedarhurst, NY
John Gliessman – Seattle, WA
Charlie Jacobsen – Walnut Creek, CA
Grace Janeshek – Lake Jackson, TX
Ralph Jones – Aurora, CO
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Douglas Kaiser – Deep Gap, NC
Paul Lustig – Lakewood, OH
Allan Mayoff – San Felipe, Baja Norte, Mexico
Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Priscilla Olson – Framingham, MA
Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD
Charles Ray – Harare, Zimbabwe
Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT
Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
Carolyn Roosevelt – Cambridge, MA
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Joe Schrader – Hillsboro, OR
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
Edward Stejskal – Raleigh, NC
John Stuelpnagel – Baltimore, MD
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