The omitted letters (in parentheses in the list below) spell
WHITE CHRISTMAS

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

1. Judy Adamski – Jenison, MI
2. Mark Navarrete – Quezon City, the Philippines
3. Stephen Throop – Grover, NC
4. Donald R. Spaulding – Los Altos, CA
5. Jackie Miller – Everett, MA
6. Daniel J. Milton – Vienna, VA
7. Eliot Kieval – New York, NY
8. Stan Kurzban – Chappaqua, NY
9. Dave Kaplan – New City, NY
10. Dina Fertig – Cherry Hill, NJ

William Alcorn – Cleveland Heights, OH
Dale Ashworth – San Francisco, CA
Al Backiel – Ridgewood, NJ
Robert Brown – Albuquerque, NM
Cathy Childs – Pompano Beach, FL
Eric Chipman – Boulder, CO
Jim Christenson – Port Townsend, WA
Henry Cook – Chicago, IL
Al Damm – Marshall, WI
Keith and Elizabeth Falkner – Sarasota, FL
Yossi Fendel – Berkeley, CA
William Flis – Philadelphia, PA
Stan Francuz – Somewhere in Australia
Warren Fraser – Marmora, Ontario, Canada
Edward Gee – Richmond, VA
Lewis Gee – Poway, CA
Steve Gunter – Raleigh, NC
Craig Harman – Alexandria, VA
Richard Harrison – Portland, OR
Ralph Jones – Aurora, CO
Wayne Jones – Worcester, NY
Rick Kasten – Alexandria, VA
Doug Kouril – Arlington, VA
Mike Lessie – Douglassvile, PA
Richard Letourneau – Bonita Springs, FL
Andy Lewis – Berkeley, CA
Paul Lustig – Lakewood, OH
Steph Mabie – Oxford , GA
Bob Mattson – Smithtown, NY
Mary Lyndal Nyberg – Manhattan, KS
Itai Pines – Portland, OR
Huw Powell – Lee, NH
Charlie Pritzlaff – Silver Spring, MD
Arnold Reich – Bronxville, NY
Ned Robert – Los Gatos, CA
Joe Rogers – Old Greenwich, CT
Charles J. Rohrmann, Jr. – Scarsdale, NY
Carolyn Roosevelt – Cambridge, MA
Mordy Rosen – Berkeley, CA
Al Sanders – Fort Collins, CO
Arthur Schless – Unionville, PA
Dexter Senft – Bedford, NY
Callie and Bob Smith – Massena, NY
Ashutosh Sodhani – Indore, MP, India
Donald Stanley – Littleton, CO
Steve Tice – Great Falls, VA
Margaret Webster – Medford, MA
Thomas Wilson – South Williamsport, PA
Jay Winter – Farmington Hills, MI
Barbara Wohlgemuth – Austin, TX