CHARLES SEIFE, PROOFINESS (THE DARK ARTS OF MATHEMATICAL DECEPTION) — Each roll of the die... is totally unrelated to... events that came before it.... There's no pattern.... Yet our brains simply refuse to accept this fact. This is randumbness: insisting that there is order where there is only chaos.
| A. | Venture made risky by the forces of chance | CRAPSHOOT |
| B. | Statement deceptively omitting some of the information (hyph.) | HALFTRUTH |
| C. | Accidental; unpredictable; like a gamble | ALEATORY |
| D. | According to Nabokov, a word that should always be in quotes | REALITY |
| E. | Yoga pose that makes a person look like a grasshopper | LOCUST |
| F. | { }, in math (2 wds.) | EMPTYSET |
| G. | "___ Madonna" (Raphael painting) | SISTINE |
| H. | Small, hardy pony or sheepdog | SHELTIE |
| I. | Firmly fixed and hard to change, as opinions | ENTRENCHED |
| J. | Like some rafts and expense account figures | INFLATED |
| K. | Complimentary ticket, for example | FREEBIE |
| L. | A choice with just two options (hyph.) | EITHEROR |
| M. | Chronic indulger in cannabis sativa | POTHEAD |
| N. | Kind of dressing used on a Reuben | RUSSIAN |
| O. | Mulishness | OBSTINACY |
| P. | Deposed; routed, as a faulty theory | OVERTHROWN |
| Q. | Constitution of some boas | FEATHERS |
| R. | Started rapidly oxidizing | IGNITED |
| S. | Containing element number 7 | NITROUS |
| T. | Dishes served between courses; fancy dessert pastries | ENTREMETS |
| U. | Drags one's feet; state of ruin | SHAMBLES |
| V. | Conjectural; haphazard; involving probability | STOCHASTIC |