PUZZLES
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Interior Design by Leonard Malkin & Brad Wilber
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Fry source
5 “Hold it!”
9 Herb in caprese
salad
14 “Beloved” author
Morrison
15 Device that
enables binge-
watching
16 Dumpster smells
17 No ifs, ___ or
buts
18 Holder in a film
archive
19 Primed for an
argument
20 Carrier to Prague
(see letters 4 to 8)
23 Cassis cocktail
24 Recycling
container
25 Like “it,”
grammatically
28 Turn into
compost
29 Manual mode’s
counterpart
31 Equal: Prefix
32 Puerto ___
35 By its very nature,
in court (3 to 6)
37 Dutch-speaking
Caribbean island
39 H.S. “ruling”
class
40 Admiral’s
command
41 Tool for updating
online text (3 to 5)
43 Avails oneself of
44 Doubles in
tennis?
45 “Parasite”
director Bong
___-ho
46 Beaver’s project
48 Put another layer
of varnish on
50 Morning moisture
51 Comic-strip
“Horrors!”
54 Canadian jazz
pianist who won
eight Grammys (3
to 8)
58 Reason to march
60 Effortlessness
61 Peak
62 Choose to
participate
63 Synagogue
chests
64 Capital where “all
roads lead”
65 Attack from every
side
66 Apt rhyme for
“infest”
67 List-ending abbr.
DOWN
1 Five pancakes,
often
2 Shady kind of
scheme
3 Subordinate to
4 Part of CD
5 Connecting
waterway
6 Book with photos
from a movie,
e.g.
7 Mind ___ matter
8 Survey of
opinions
9 Carried away
10 Vowel-heavy
farewell
11 Summer
and winter
occurrences
12 Pique
13 Something
dropped at
Woodstock
21 2020 network for
“Perry Mason”
22 Enthusiastic
about
26 Cosmetician
Lauder
27 Miniseries of
1977 and 2016
28 Spa wrap
29 Kitchen splatter
catcher
30 KGB state, once
32 Having less
training
33 Cara of “Fame”
34 Children who
earn badges
35 Analogy phrase
36 University grad
38 Next (to)
42 Minimal amount
46 Abhor
47 More than mere
respect
49 Davis of “School
Daze”
50 Office furniture
51 Broad neckwear
52 Mark where a
reader breathes
53 Prepare to be
knighted
55 Collect, as
rewards
56 Take the rind off
57 Not often seen
58 Stripped
barbecue discard
59 Mimic
Last Movement by Frank Virzi
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Jalisco home
5 Where a pig roots
8 Like a rascally
grin
14 Unpleasant smell
15 Commit perjury
16 Singer King
17 *Group founded
by Clara Barton
19 2017 film about a
figure skater
20 Greeting
accompanied
by a 24-Across,
perhaps
21 “Jay Leno’s
Garage” network
23 Wedding cake
layer
24 See 20-Across
25 *K-12 overseers
28 “Well, looky
there!”
29 Furnace output
30 Situated on
33 Like hanging up
on someone
36 Perry of “Gone
Girl”
40 *”I need time
alone”
43 Certain Arabian
Peninsula
resident
44 Person logging in
45
46
48
50
55
58
59
60
62
64
66
67
68
69
70
71
Swelled heads
Munich mister
Part of FWIW
*”The Black
Swan” star, 1942
“___ be there!”
Hanauma Bay’s
Hawaiian island
Arthur who wrote
“A Hard Road to
Glory”
Low-stress
course
Elite rosters of
guests
Retreat, as from
a position ... or a
hint to what can
follow the end
of each starred
answer
Money, informally
Octogenarian
celebrity Yoko
Kind of package
Welcomes, as a
guest
Boston-to-Austin
dir.
Mark from battle
DOWN
1 Pink shade
2 “25” singer
3 “Me too”
4 St. Louis
landmark
5 ___-mo
6 Former CBS
chief Laurence
7 Kind of question
8 One hangs on a
house
9 Yoga surface
10 Test models
11 Pythagoras’
Greek region
12 More wily
13 Got wind of
18 Too hasty
22 Puccini’s “La
___”
26 Abs’ region
27 They hang in
caves
28 Realty events
30 In the past
31 “Tiny” son of Bob
Cratchit
32 Egg cells
34 Assumes by
force
35 Uno + uno
37 Zoom annoyance
38 Energy-saving
mode in some
cars
39 Low-___ image
41 Word heard in
“demeanor”
42 Tribe that lived by
a Great Lake
47 Rhyme partner
49 Arduous journey
50 Bumpy
amphibians
51 Ivy Leaguer
who may visit
Connecticut Hall
52 Bonn’s river
53 “That’s amazing!”
54 Moves to solid
food
55 Oscar of “Inside
Llewyn Davis”
56 Tights material
57 LeBron James,
for one
61 The basics
63 Part of TNT
65 Burner setting
East Oregonian
A11
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2020 Cosmic Communication Demonstration
The power of words is beautifully experienced when
harmonious sounds blend, lift and send an experience
into the sublime. But that is rare. The power of words
is also, often and more obviously, noted when words
rub, clash and, with the friction of flint and steel,
produce ignition sparks. Mercury and Uranus in
opposition will demonstrate.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). No matter how large or
small a threat may be, the same move is called for –
turn and face it. Your psyche memorizes the “move”
the more times you do it. Facing small stuff makes it
easier to face big stuff.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). There’s much that will
go right as you mind your own business (and much
could go wrong if you don’t.) The trick is in planning
ahead – knowing what you’re going to focus on and
erecting barriers to distraction.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You often step up to take
care of the situation, but you don’t have to be the point
person every time. Let others step in. It’s good for the
bond when everyone takes some of the responsibility.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). One benefit to getting
really good at something is that you don’t have to
start from scratch every time. It won’t even feel like
work until you’re in the middle part. Keep at this.
You’re headed toward mastery.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your gut tells you about
more than one kind of hunger. Today, it’s in tune to
emotional needs and the craving for comforts that
cannot be satisfied with food. Who are your go-to
sources for emotional warmth?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). There is no happiness
guarantee for helping others, not for the helper, nor
for the helped. However, to give in this way certainly
raises the odds that somewhere along the line,
someone will be satisfied.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The number of useful
actions you complete in a day would be mindboggling
to a younger version of you. Don’t forget that you’ve
worked up to this and deserve every reward coming
to you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Bright notions will light
up your mind in a nonstop flow. They’re more than
you can act on now, but stockpile them for the future.
And remember, money can’t buy ideas. Ideas come
first and the money follows.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Beware the optical
illusions of progress. Forward movement doesn’t
always look the same and the backward slide can
be just as tricky to detect. This is why you need
witnesses in various positions.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Accept all the care
people want to give you today, and they will give more
than you’re comfortable with. It might even annoy
you. Still, it’s important to understand what it’s like to
be on all sides of a relationship.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). While some worry their
lives are too ordinary to be interesting conversation,
you’ll have the opposite concern. You’ll hold back
wild stories aplenty as you’re careful to share the
information most likely to help you fit in.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll be appointed to
clear up a messy situation. Approach it like you’re
cleaning out a junk drawer. Things that land in a junk
drawer are usually junk. Be merciless.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 7). First epic fun and
lucrative work, and then it flips the other way around.
What luck! It’s due in part to your tendency to
gravitate toward projects that engage you on many
levels. You’ll explore relationships with your eyes wide
open. The more you know about attachment style and
love languages, the smoother it will go. Sagittarius
and Aquarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5,
23, 30, 1 and 28.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 Mercury Sorts Out Supply & Demand
Cosmic oppositions and lunar tides in Gemini feature
laws of supply and demand. In business, it is said that
the market determines the price, and that principle
applies to many other areas of life. Make your
offering. If you have many takers, consider offering
less. If takers are few, then offer more, or change the
offer entirely.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your emotions are
compressed into bursts. They’re easy to understand
in this concentrated form. Hot Tip: Feelings are always
much easier to deal with when you’re well-rested.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll be challenged to
listen well today, and your subject won’t make it any
easier to pay attention. Some of what you need to
absorb is so dry! Just by making the effort, you’ll be
ahead of most others.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You want to find out what
people want even if it’s not what you have to give.
Because you ask questions without an attachment
to certain answers, you learn more than anyone who
goes in with an agenda.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). To you, this just feels
like a natural attraction, but the fact is that you’re
building a relationship, which in turn builds your value
to another person and to yourself. You are picking up
skills without even realizing it.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Not every warning warrants
immediate response. You’re wary of those who seem
to be forever cautioning you against this and that. It
feels like it’s more about control than it is about safety.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Beauty is mostly
subjective, but even the standards of beauty society
agree upon are ever-changing because beauty relies
on freshness. It’s never the same twice. Aesthetic
pleasures abound today.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Those in your inner circle
have earned their place there, and yet this is not an
all-season pass situation. It’s good to check in with
yourself to make sure you’re still giving and getting
what’s needed in relationships.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You open the door to
another door to another door... This is how it will
continue: Some rooms are more inhabitable than
others, some hallways are of various lengths. You
never know what you’re going to get on the other side.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). There are people
who don’t listen, and then there are people who can’t
comprehend. The first category needs a wake-up call.
The second category needs a hard pass. Don’t waste
your message.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It’s a good day to
put stock in action and maintain a healthy distrust of
words. Some people don’t have a lot of control right
now over what trips off the tongue. Love is as love
does.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Do you get the
sneaking feeling that the solution you seek will, at
some later date, become the problem? Well, you’re
right. But it will be a better problem to have.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You can push a thing to
the back burner, and it can cook there just as well as
anything upfront. Turn it down. Leave it alone; let it
simmer. It needs no more attention, only time.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct.8). You love to encourage
others along their journey, and because of this, your
own journey takes a new turn. Your role as a champion
will have you learning and earning through 2021.
Family expands. There are logistics and domestic
details to sort out in February; life and relationships
smooth out because you took the time. Taurus and
Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 44, 39,
1 and 7.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS