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TDOT launches US 27 Project Web site
The Tennessee Department of Transportation has launched a Web site to keep the public informed on the progress
of the U.S. 27 reconstruction project in downtown Chattanooga. The project will widen a 1.62 mile section
of U.S. 27 betwee Manufacturers Road and SR-8. The new site is located at www.tdot.state.tn.us/RebuildUS27/. It
features project facts, contact information and a FAQ. The Web site will be updated with information on work that
has been accomplished and work that lies ahead. The U.S. 27 project began late last year and is scheduled to be
complete in October 2014. The project will make improvements for traffi c entering and exiting U.S. 27, including
additional acceleration and deceleration lanes. The project also includes at least 30 retaining walls. (David
Laprad)
I Swear Crossword
CLOSE By Victor Fleming
Across
1 “___ Network” (‘80s comedy
series)
5 Pooch on “Frasier”
10 Israel’s first king
14 “See you,” in Sorrento
15 Draws closer to
16 “So, what ___ is new?”
17 Like a house you can see,
perhaps
20 Grange or Buttons
21 Author of “The Clan of the
Cave Bear”
22 “I ___ you one”
23 Frost said writing this was like
“playing tennis without a net”
26 Walking ___ (elated)
30 Sammy with three 60-homer
seasons
31 Italian entree
33 Armenia or Azerbaijan, once
(abbr.)
36 Skeptic’s remark
37 Tiny Tim played one
38 Like houses in your neighborhood,
say
42 Maple extract
43 Shankar of sitar fame
44 ___ pro nobis
45 Ophthalmologist’s concern
47 “My ___ are sealed”
51 “It’s ___!” (“No problem!”)
52 Jack of “A Few Good Men”
57 2011 animated film that
grossed almost $500 million
worldwide
59 Larger ___ life
60 O.J. Simpson trial judge Lance
61 Like a house you can’t see, perhaps
66 Hostile parties
67 Junk to get rid of, perhaps
68 Big name in alternative magazines
69 Things ___ (list heading)
70 Tries to locate
71 Small children
Down
1 Eats voraciously, with “down”
2 “Imperium” character
3 “Buenas ___” (“Good afternoon,”
in Spanish)
4 “Hinky Dinky Parlay ___”
5 Follow in sequence
6 Dissuade
7 Roald and Arlene
8 Angry feeling
9 Predecessor of Exxon
10 Venus’s sibling
11 Amber brew
12 Get mileage out of
13 Suffix for book
18 Word in some discount store
names
19 Like some hotels or generals
24 Big ___ (NCAA conference)
25 Island where Napoleon spent 42
weeks in exile
27 Water, in Madrid
28 Like printers’ fingers
29 “Norma ___” (Field film)
32 Prefix for space
34 Secure, as with a seat belt
35 Lion sound
36 “___ Ran the Zoo” (Dr. Seuss
book)
38 No votes
39 Unseal
40 Place for a turkey
41 Side of a room
42 Mariner’s milieu
46 Famed opera tenor
48 Has as a hobby
49 Packing a punch
50 Sleeper’s sounds
53 “With this ring ___ wed”
Victor Fleming’s puzzles have appeared in many publications,
including the New York Times and Games Magazine.
54 “Cash, ___ or credit card?” (quaint
query)
55 Untalented writers
56 “Two Virgins” musician Yoko
58 Betting info
61 Rudder’s position
62 Animal with a pouch, informally
63 Brit. word reference
64 Three, in Tuscany
65 Unchanging grind
Last week’s solution
I
Swear
By Vic Fleming
vicfl eming@att.net
Crossword retraction
and Dewey v. Truman
The theme of the ursday, Jan. 5 New York Times crossword,
which ran in syndication Feb. 9, was:
14A “ at was funny!” GOODALL; 59A Jane who wrote “In
the Shadow of Man” GOOD ONE; 24A Captivates ENTHRONES;
47A Crowns ENTHRALLS; 3D Set up, as software IN STONE;
41D Fixed INSTALL; 4D Schoolyard game T-BONE; 49D Certain
steak T-BALL. 34A/21D Catchphrase that provides a hint to eight
answers in this puzzle ALL FOR ONE, ONE FOR ALL.
Get it? ONE and ALL are substituted for each other in words
and phrases. Enter my friend Johnny, who writes of a “correction”
in the Kansas City Star, reading “In the Feb. 9 New York Times
crossword … the clues to 14 and 59 across [sic] were switched.”
Johnny emailed the Star, explaining the theme to show “the
clues were NOT switched.” If they had been, “then all six of the
Down crossers would be wrong, unless you think a good answer
to ‘Spirited’ is NIVELY.”
e Star’s “readers’ representative” replied: “ e New York
Times itself issued the correction. e answer to 14A is ‘good one’
and 59A is ‘Goodall,’ but those don’t fi t in the puzzle. ey work if
switched, as today’s key indicates.”
Johnny, who has a wry sense of humor, wrote back: “ is isn’t
DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, but the correction is incorrect. I
doubt the Times issued a correction. If you have an answer grid
that shows GOOD ONE for 14-A and GOODALL for 59-A, I’ll
eat Truman’s hat.” President Harry Truman, known for wearing
Panama hats, was from the area.
e readers’ rep responded, “ ey got it wrong, and the correction
was retracted in Saturday’s paper. I don’t appreciate your
accusing me of lying. Please do not write me back.”
e Times issued no correction; none was needed. Troubled by
the rep’s last note to Johnny, though, I looked online and found his
byline under a piece titled “Correcting the correction – NY Times
crossword puzzle.” It reads:
“For the second time … in my days as readers’ representative,
I’ve … written a correction to a previous correction. …” He notes
and quotes the correction that concluded “the clues to 14 and
59 across [sic] were switched.” e reason for the correction, he
writes, is that more than one person told him “the clues must have
been switched” because 14A’s answer fi t 59A’s clue and vice versa.
Oh, how little some know of ursday Times puzzles!
“I checked with the syndicate who also looked into it [sic],” he
continues. “Verdict: Yes, there was an error. So the correction ran.
Not so fast, said several crossworders today, proving that my mind
simply doesn’t operate on the same level as theirs. I’ll let one of
them explain it: [explanation, from someone other than Johnny,
omitted].
“So, yes, it now makes perfect sense, and it obviously tripped
up several people. ‘[O]ur world has more serious problems to consider!’
wrote one of my emailers, and she’s right – but the record
still needs to be set straight.”
As a friend of mine often says, “Hmmmph!”
Vic Fleming is a district court judge in Little Rock, Ark., where he
also teaches at the William H. Bowen School of Law. Contact him
at vicfl eming@att.net.