PUZZLES
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Prime Numbers by Evan Kalish
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Do some shading
7 Puncture
13 Horses and
zebras
15 Lumber source
16 With 17-Across,
1981 Grover
Washington Jr.
and Bill Withers
hit
17 See 16-Across
18 “What a nice
massage!”
19 Rage
20 Sheldon’s friend
on “The Big Bang
Theory”
21 Entry cost
22 Piece of nose
jewelry
23 ___ Spunkmeyer
25 Atrocious
28 Scottish boy
30 Clublike medieval
weapons
34 1978
Commodores hit
37 Word before
“ring” or “swing”
38 At the perfect
time
39 “___ Brockovich”
40 The “S” of UCSD
41 With 64-Across,
“Gemini Man”
director
42 Supporter’s side
44 Winter solstice
mo.
45 With 47-Across,
1959 Dave
Brubeck hit
47 See 45-Across
49 Pet shelter org.
51 Lobe’s locale
54 Renter’s
document
57 Start of an advice
column question
58 Computer
network manager,
for short
60 Speak unclearly
61 1982 Stevie
Nicks hit
64 See 41-Across
65 Rival who’s
somewhat on
your side
66 GPS lines: Abbr.
67 Hosp. areas
68 “War and Peace”
author
69 ___ a good
example
DOWN
1 ___ vu
2 Watery blue
3 Try to join, as a
sorority
4 Build-it-yourself
purchase
5 Grant a right to
6 ‘60s jacket style
7 Bat around, cat-
style
8 Site of an iconic
flag-raising photo
9 Angsty rock
genre
10 Jazzy refrain
11 Board game set
in a mansion
12 “What ___ is
new?”
14 Young plant
15 Walked over with
confidence
22 Took to court
24 Post-
Thanksgiving
event
25 Drive-up bank
conveniences
26 “Hold on, horse!”
27 Newsstand sights
29 Theater chain
31 Sellers with a lot
of products?
32 Actress Falco
33 Harmonize
35 Voice or muscle
quality
36 Feudal laborer
41 Sometimes
called, briefly
43 Liquid in a slick
46 Farm area unit
48 Part of a three-
piece suit
49 “Set Fire to the
Rain” singer
50 Jewish meal with
a special plate
51 ‘50s Ford flop
52 Churchgoers’
chorus
53 Fastener for
Rosie
55 Boot leather
56 ___ & Young
58 Hairdo for
Questlove
59 “Finding Dory”
fish
62 Frequently, in
poems
63 Bronx Bombers,
on scoreboards
Dehydrogenated by Fred Piscop
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Boxing matches
6 Skewered food
11 Letters on a
battleship
14 Island near Maui
15 Jong who wrote
“Fanny”
16 Prefix with “natal”
17 Person listening
for melodious
bird calls?
19 Bearded
Serengeti beast
20 Spinks who
dethroned Ali
21 Foodstuffs
23 Delivery docs
26 Tortellini topping
27 Bossy remark?
28 What a matching
set of tires
shares?
33 Belly button, for
most of us
35 Like photos from
drones
36 Swarm (with)
37 Join the cast of
38 Ferber who wrote
“Giant”
42 Founder of a
financial weekly
44 Glass in many
test tubes
45 “Sap stick”
comedy group?
49 Homophone of a
pub drink
50 Gaza Strip group
51 Do casually, with
“in”
53 Manicurist’s
solvent
56 Rural skyline
feature
57 Take the gold
58 What every
astronaut needs?
63 Deep ___ (pool
area)
64 Fortune-teller’s
deck
65 Come as a result
66 French surname
starter
67 “Zip it!”
68 Superman
portrayer
Christopher
DOWN
1 Crunchy diner
sandwich
2 Regatta
implement
3 Prefix with “brow”
or “cycle”
4 Running total
5 “Zip it!”
6 Razor-sharp
7 Bard’s “before”
8 Motocross ride
9 Scored 100 on,
say
10 Starbucks staffer
11 Remove with
53-Across,
perhaps
12 Iroquois
Confederacy tribe
13 Beyond tipsy
18 Nothing to write
home about
22 Brewer’s grain
23 Fail to list
24 Fossil fragment
25 “GWTW” part
29 Computer
shortcut
30 Silence-breakers’
movement
31 Faucet gasket
32 Diarist Anais
34 “That wore me
out!”
37 Often-framed
work
39 Totally blah
40 Simon who
created Felix and
Oscar
41 Wheel-to-wheel
bar
43 Sticks into
pigeonholes
44 Book of sacred
songs
45 Became more
genial
46 City south of
Milwaukee
47 Corrects, as text
48 Correct, as text
52 Carried
54 Ark figure
55 Unbleached
linen’s color
56 MacFarlane of
“Family Guy”
59 Outcomes of
some 1-Across
60 Get benefit from
61 Many a parent’s
ride
62 Kickoff prop
East Oregonian
A13
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
FRIDAY, MAY 22, 2020 Luck Doubles This New Moon
Planets rally around an auspicious Gemini new
moon. Mercury and Venus align in the twin sign, too,
followed by more air sign harmony from the sun and
Saturn. Group proceedings are incredibly smooth and
culminate in brilliant, fair decisions. All feel heard
and will galvanize, marching forward in the spirit of
common interest and camaraderie.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You don’t have to
compete to win; rather, the winning move is an assist to
others, whether or not you consider them to be on your
team. Helping the other players helps you even more.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). There’s no such thing as
being too practical right now. If it works, then it works.
Keep building in these small ways and, suddenly, you
are miles up from where you were.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You have assumed that
you liked certain activities because, after all, you
were doing them. But how did you get there? Very
influential circumstances and expectations. Now you
have awareness and a choice.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Certain ideas stir up
uncomfortable feelings of insecurity -- an efficient
phenomenon you can get excited about, because it
brings you to the precise thing you can work on to
get strong.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Good relationships can’t be
totally controlled. Good relationships involve people
who will thrill and excite, challenge and upset you
unpredictably. Let go of the controls (they won’t work
anyway) and see what happens.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You will very successfully
mediate between your needs and those of the group.
You may turn to rules, rituals and examples set by
those you admire to help you conciliate self and
others.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There are things about
yourself you cannot change, and things you can
absolutely change. Knowing the difference is a key to
happiness. You’ll be inclined to work on yourself. The
best work you can do is around acceptance.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It’s one thing to enjoy
something and quite another to be a fan. The latter
version is curious, investigative and active in
appreciating the finer points. Go on marveling, and
one day you will become what you admire.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). People don’t have
to agree with you in order to be your friend. You have
plenty of friends you don’t agree with. The manner
in which you disagree -- with respect, tact and
diplomacy -- is an agent of trust and bonding.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Even as you work for
what you want, you’re very happy with certain things
you already have. And where this is not the case,
you’re willing to let go and move on.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). While it’s generally
better to act out of principle and for the approval of
others, sometimes a bit of people-pleasing is the
quickest, most strategic route to the common good.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’re not trying to be
competitive or show anyone up. But as you follow your
heart, you gain insights, skills and other qualities that
make the people around you want to up their game.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 22). Your passion
project becomes a bigger part of your life and has a
transforming influence. You’ll join an alliance and, four
months later, the investment of resources will come to
you with interest. Wise choices sparkle your personal
life. You’ll have the approval of someone older and the
adoration of someone younger. Cancer and Leo adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 2, 18, 44 and 20.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SATURDAY, MAY 23, 2020 Four Flexible Luminaries
The Gemini part of the sky is famous for imbuing its
visitors with remarkable flexibility. Current customers
to the yoga studio in Gemini’s district include the
sun, moon, Mercury and Venus. As scientist Charles
Darwin suggested, “It’s not the strongest species
that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most
responsive to change.”
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re different from
the others, so it naturally follows that you’ll ask
different questions and have novel interactions. You’re
memorable and will be adored for this.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). If you had to choose
between being in an endless state of self-satisfaction
or continual self-improvement that never quite
arrives, you’d take the latter. A pinch of discontent
keeps life interesting.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). The more people you can
align with, the bigger your team grows. You’ll build
that group through the weekend, finding kindred
spirits or being in the places where they’ll find you.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Pay attention to power
dynamics because they will teach you a lot about who
people really are. The true test of a person’s character
is how they handle themselves when they clearly
have the upper hand.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’re looking for an
answer that feels right and actionable to you. You’ve
followed lines of logic, but none of them satisfied.
So try switching off your head and letting your inner
guidance system have a go at this.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It’s said that every big
problem was once a minor disturbance. That’s why
you like to handle things when they are small, and
you’re very sensitive to all red flags, even the itty-
bitty ones!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It shouldn’t be too hard to
be good. And if it feels that way, maybe it’s the rules or
environment that needs changing, not you. The river
needs no special devotion, goodness or willpower to
flow effortlessly home to the sea.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your best idea will come
as a joke. So you have nothing to lose from thinking
in funny terms and letting humor, playfulness and
creativity run rampant in your mind.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Though you can’t
change the past, you can always change the way you
see it. Perhaps you’ve been harsh, not assessing the
bigger picture. How else could you frame the story?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll feel something
akin to this Shakespearean sentiment today, “But the
strong base and building of my love is as the very
centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). When you feel your
mind taking things in too serious a direction, you
can lighten up the whole mental screen with some
bodywork -- a walk, a stretch. It won’t take much!
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Being stuck is a function
of having too much, not too little. Let go of an idea
or item and then see if you don’t have a little more
wiggle room. Jettison enough baggage and you can
walk right out.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 23). The cosmic birthday
boon is an influx of dollars. You’ll meet many who
connect to your emotional tone. They’ll come from
different places with a variety of interests, but they’ll
share your high intelligence and many of the same
values. Amazingly supportive relationships free you
to express yourself. Your talents thrive. Scorpio and
Virgo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 30, 33,
21 and 50.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS