Mavericks (10.9.1) blocking Java 7 update 51

I am trying to play the NY Times Java Acrostic. Every couple of months I have to update Java in order to get the applet to load (I get a message that my Java is out of date). This time I updated to Java 7 update 51, installed it, verified that it is successfully installed. But every time I try to click on the Java Acrostic, I get an error message where the Acrostic normally is located reading "Error. Click for details." I click and get a box headed "Application Blocked. Click for detais" with a red stop sign icon (the first few times it was just a white "i" in t blue circle icon) that states "Your security settings have blocked an untrusted application from running." There are three buttons: Details, Ignore, Reload. "Ignore" and "Reload" accomplish nothing. "Details" gets me a "Java Console" box which reads:
Java Plug-in 10.51.2.13
Using JRE version 1.7.0_51-b13 Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
User home directory = /Users/sandina
c:   clear console window
f:   finalize objects on finalization queue
g:   garbage collect
h:   display this help message
l:   dump classloader list
m:   print memory usage
o:   trigger logging
q:   hide console
r:   reload policy configuration
s:   dump system and deployment properties
t:   dump thread list
v:   dump thread stack
x:   clear classloader cache
0-5: set trace level to <n>
The menu bar in the Java Console reads "Java Applet---www.nytimes.com"
The Times is stumped. I went to Safari Preferences (Security) and both the Times website and Java Applet are set to "Always Allow." Java Preferences' Security tab is set to "Medium" as several tech websites instruct (apparently this is a HUGE known issue with the latest updates to Mavericks and Java). This did not happen until I updated Mavericks to 10.9.1.
HELP!!! (Warning--I am NOT comfortable trying to write code and don't understand half the complicat

I'm not an expert, but I've gotten around this problem in the following way.
Go to the Java Control Panel
Click on the Security Tab
Look for the Exception Site List toward the bottom, and click "Edit Site List"
I added these sites to the list. Not sure if all are needed, but I was able to do the acrostic afterwards.
http://nytsyn.pzzl.com
http://www.nytimes.com
http://query.nytimes.com
You may need to quit Safari and restart it. Good luck.

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