Lawlessness threatens to turn heart of Athens into no-go zone

CROSSWORD
Edited by Will Shortz No. 0808
ACROSS
1 Many a stuntman’s
sequence
6 TV series featuring a
robotic dog named K-9
15 Revived
16 Something to chew on
17 Completely lose it
18 Waiting for the starting
gun, say
19 Gondolier, e.g.
20 Very
21 Seasonal sound
22 Pump alternative
24 Kitchen gizmo
27 Termagant
30 Sold all one’s stock?
33 Bouncing off the walls
37 Title castle town of book
and film
38 Catching a few z’s
39 Jed’s first chief of staff on
“The West Wing”
40 Soup pastas
41 Jackknifed, e.g.
42 Causes of some breakouts
44 Cause of fatigue
46 Not get involved
47 Paving stones
49 Out
53 & 55 Campus hangout
58 Surface
59 1985 Golden Globenominated
role for Eddie
Murphy
62 Drop shots
63 Without assistance in a fight
64 Split up
65 Not applied neatly
66 One side in an informal
game
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4 7 3 5
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THE NEW YORK TIMES • 132 B
1 Proceeded with caution
2 Alternatives to wraps
3 Ticket category
4 Hit 2004 Morgan Spurlock
documentary
5 It might turn a B into an A
6 U.K. decorations
7 1998 biography subtitled
“Living in the Shadows”
8 Not tread lightly
9 Conductor’s bane
10 Dedicated lines
11 1960s atty. gen.
12 Got beaten by two people?
13 Crop cropper
14 The Szczecin Lagoon is an
extension of its mouth
23 Food often described using
the number of fingers it
takes to eat it
25 Cutting-edge technology?
26 Jolt, e.g.
28 1970 hit with the lyric “Girls
will be boys and boys will
be girls”
29 Old-fashioned argument
9
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31 Soup pasta
32 News source beginning in
1925
33 Early pop?
34 chief (publ. honcho)
35 Shoot with steam?
36 Helpless performances?
43 Historical war zone: Abbr.
45 In
48 Introductory course?
50 “Thug” and “loot” derive
from it
51 Make an opening offer?
52 Some cricket matches
53 Ones going head to head?
54 It might be required for
entrance
56 “You’re not famous until
my mother has heard of
you” quipper
57 Mary who founded Mount
Holyoke College
60 “Mahalo nui ___” (“Thank
you very much,” in Hilo)
61 Considerably
Solution to last week’s puzzle - 801
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P R I M E S L E F T S
R A G E D R U N T O C O B
O C H S M E E T S T O G O
P E T C A S A S B U R R O
C A M E L H O R N E T
W A T E R B A L L O O N S
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SUDOKU
Fill the grid so that every row, column,
3x3 box and shaded 3x3 box contains
each of the numbers 1 to 9 exactly once.
Solution
132 B
5 4 7 1 8 3 6 2 9
8 6 1 4 2 9 7 3 5
3 2 9 7 6 5 1 8 4
7 5 3 8 9 4 2 6 1
4 8 6 2 7 1 9 5 3
9 1 2 3 5 6 8 4 7
6 9 8 5 4 7 3 1 2
1 7 4 6 3 2 5 9 8
2 3 5 9 1 8 4 7 6
ATHENSPLUS • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
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50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
Sea
temperature
Sunshine
Light
clouds
Sunny
spells
Partly
cloudy
Heavy
cloud
Rain
Storm
Snow
Ice
Fog
Wind
direction
No wind
24
Preveza
35°
3-4
Next days
PROMETHEUS
Kavala
32°
Florina
32°
Thessaloniki
33°
Ioannina
35°
Lamia
34°
Patras
34°
Kalamata
35°
26
Volos
35°
Athens
34°
25
24
25
4
WEATHER
Alexandroupolis
32°
3-4
23
Iraklion
33°
Mytilene
32°
23
Myconos
30°
Warm weather will prevail over the weekend across the
country, as winds die down and temperatures rise, reaching
36 Celsius in some parts of Greece. The combination
of high temperatures with elevated humidity levels may
create uncomfortable conditions in some parts of the coun-
4-5
22
4-5
25
26
Rhodes
33°
Today
Athens 21-34
Thessaloniki 20-33
Iraklion 23-31
Ioannina 18-35
Patras 22-34
Kalamata 21-35
Corfu 21-35
Larissa 18-35
Tomorrow
Athens 22-35
Thessaloniki 22-34
Iraklion 24-31
Ioannina 18-34
Patras 22-35
Kalamata 22-36
Corfu 23-33
Larissa 18-36
City Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Athens 23-35 24-34 23-31 22-28 20-27
Thessaloniki 22-33 23-31 22-29 21-25 19-26
Iraklion 24-33 24-32 24-30 23-29 23-28
Ioannina 19-33 20-27 18-25 17-24 16-24
Patras 23-34 23-30 22-28 20-26 18-27
Kalamata 24-35 23-32 23-29 21-28 19-28
Corfu 24-32 22-28 22-26 21-26 19-26
Larissa 19-35 20-33 20-30 18-27 18-27
Overview
Reykjavik
12°
Dublin
18°
London
18°
Paris
17°
Madrid
21°
Lisbon
28°
Algiers
25°
Rabat
28°
Oslo
15°
Copenhagen
15°
Berlin
15°
Rome
26
Tunis
30°
Prague
16°
Helsinki
13°
Belgrade
25°
try. The new week is expected to see a change, as rain and
storms develop, mainly over western, central and northern
Greece, and the temperature begins to decline. Winds
will turn into southerlies or southwesterlies and will also
increase, reaching up to 6 Beaufort in the Ionian.
Warsaw
13°
Bucharest
20°
Istanbul
32°
Moscow
7°
Nicosia
34°
World
New York 17-23
San Francisco 14-28
Beijing 20-29
Tokyo 21-31
Seoul 19-29
Buenos Aires 5-16
Cairo 26-36
Quebec 10-22
Sydney 14-23
Tel Aviv 21-34
Istanbul 20-32
Prague 10-16
Hague 14-17
Rome 18-26
Lisbon 16-28
Madrid 11-21
Algiers 22-25
London 12-18
Dublin 10-18