PUZZLES
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Basketball by Susan Gelfand
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Costa del ___
Tennis do-overs
Birds in a V
Adds some spice
to
Band bookings
Yogi’s pad
Elite athlete
NBA rookie
who plays for
Charlotte?
___-ray Disc
Volcanic output
Alpha’s opposite
Twosomes
Excellent pair in
poker
Domain
Skin breakout
Disavow
Peruvian peaks
Barely makes do,
with “out”
DOWN
1 Avis competitor
2 “Pong” company
3 NBA hothead
who plays for
Chicago?
4 Snaky curve
5 Harmony
6 City districts
7 James who wrote
“A Death in the
Family”
8 Ship stabilizer
9 Shot with a kick?
10 Sink fixture
11 Skulk
12 Side of a jigsaw
puzzle
13 Count calories
21 Blend together
22 Sterile
workplaces,
briefly
24 Takes one’s turn
27 Children mail
them to Santa
28 Has a sandwich
29 NBA “goes by the
rules” hoopster
who plays for
Milwaukee?
30 Line of rotation
31 Musical staff
symbol
32 Muralist Orozco
33 Privy to
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2020 Mars Lifts Friday the 13th Curse
“It’s ___ fun”
Overabundance
Beer barrels
Expensively
finished
“Whatever you
want”
Moving day
vehicle
Sparkles
< or >
All by yourself
Tricks
Inapt rhyme of
“sad”
Speed contest
Neck and neck
Warning sign
Enjoy a mystery
Actor Daniel ___
Kim
Safety Last by Jim Holland
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Bean type in
succotash
5 Walk proudly
10 Derriere
14 Lebanese,
perhaps
15 Indoor football
format
16 On the subject of
17 Really fun group,
it’s said
20 Gas hidden in
“Marine One”
21 Aunt, in Acapulco
22 Green ___ (elite
soldier)
23 Some brews
25 Pouches
27 Porridge thief in a
fairy tale
31 Word between
“talk” and “talk”
34 “___ on a Grecian
Urn” (Keats
poem)
35 Genre for Aretha
Franklin
36 Cooks, as
artichokes
39 Tourist attraction
41 Hanoi holiday
43 4:3, for instance
44 Most massive
46 Verdi opera set in
Egypt
48 Ernie known as
“The Big Easy”
49 ISP designed for
Windows
50 Uruguay’s capital
53 ___ apparent
55 Alternatives to
Wranglers
56 Earlier
59 Boxer Laila
61 Part of “SNL”
64 Protective setups
suggested by the
final few letters
of 17-, 27- and
50-Across
68 Places to be
pampered
69 Spanish direction
opposite sur
70 Business
communication
71 Answering
machine beep
72 Peppery salad
green
73 Big band and
Prohibition
DOWN
1 Most popular dog
breed in the U.S.
2 Country once
called Persia
3 Mule’s mother
4 Visiting Europe,
say
5 Nickname that
drops “vatore”
6 Brings forth for
display
7 New loan
arrangement,
briefly
8 Reveal
9 Chinese “way”
10 Has an afternoon
meal
11 Person who
creates a
password
12 Eye sore
13 Be the emcee
18 Signs up for the
Army
19 “Days of Our
Lives” channel
24 “Evil Woman”
band, for short
26 Mule’s father
27 “Gee willikers!”
28 Loathing
29 Hosiery brand
30 Freshly washed
32 Had no love for
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HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Fabled 51-Down
loser
5 Up and about
10 Skipped town
14 Greek H’s
15 Pet parrots’
places
16 Quattro
automaker
17 Cleaning cloths
18 Inch along
19 Craving
20 Cycle starter?
21 NBA MVP
who plays for
Houston?
23 Clever
comebacks
25 Before, to a bard
26 Word before
“standard” or
“star”
27 <
32 Agreed (with)
34 Journalist’s slant
35 Kitchen gadget
brand
36 Heavy burden
37 Sauce NYT
Cooking
described as “a
mouthful of bright
summer”
38 Work with
needles
East Oregonian
33 Novelist Zola
37 Commits a court
offense?
38 Neither amazing
nor awful
40 Where to hear
clucking
42 Champions
45 Texter’s “I didn’t
need to know
that!”
47 Actress Aisha or
Sandra
51 One on the
stump
52 “Am I to blame?”
54 “To ___ is human”
56 Secretive
attention-getter
57 Seized auto
58 Confident
declaration
60 Harp’s ancient
relative
62 Suddenly change
direction
63 “Late Night” star
Thompson
65 Forbes
competitor
66 No alternative?
67 Call for help
Waiting for luck seldom works, but lately, it’s also been
pretty hard to figure out the recipe for making your
own luck. This Mars transit lifts the curse of Friday
the 13th by going direct after a 10-week retrograde.
Barriers are lifted, thwarted business starts to flow
again and frustrated efforts get breakthroughs.
Superstition will turn into super-action.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Accept pangs of
frustration as feedback that you should adjust your
plan or alter your aim. These feelings only need to be
experienced for a fraction of a second to have served
their practical purpose.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The atmosphere will be
a bit stale upon arrival and, as sensitive as you are, it
will be clear that someone’s got to crank out the good
vibes that will turn this around, and that someone is
probably you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You usually realize what
people are protective of before you cross a boundary,
but sometimes there are hidden rules you only know
about once you come up against them and experience
the pushback.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Go ahead and aim high
while working low – doing the groundwork that will
bring step-by-step, gradual success. A good plan will
include simple measures and lots of repetition.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Social interaction can be so
involving that it’s hard to know just how you’re feeling
in the midst of it. Notice how you feel in the moments
after you leave though because that feeling says a lot.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll have an exhilarating
sense of forwarding movement today, though perhaps
not in the area you want to move. That’s OK because
progress in any area will eventually bring you forward
in others.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It is impossible to know
how another person is seeing the situation; however,
with a combination of curiosity and empathy, you will
come about as close as it gets to this superpower.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). A past letdown has
influenced you to view your present circumstance
in a less-than-helpful way. Rethink and rewrite
your history. Your opinion of what happened is what
matters, and that’s something you can change.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). To put one’s head
in an alligator’s open jaws is more foolish than bold,
but that’s the price of the gator-stunt. Perhaps it’s also
foolish to put one’s heart in the hands of another and
hope for mercy, but that’s the price of love.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Jealousy is golden!
It tells you what you really want and care about. Still,
it’s often better expressed in a journal or some other
private way, as it’s not the most attractive quality and
can skewer the balance of relationships.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It takes more than love
to make a relationship work. Right now, it’s the simple
act of making and keeping agreements that will tell
you all you need to know about how the relationship
is doing.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll listen to the same
story a few times, but when patterns become too
repetitive, it’s both taxing and a sign that the other
person isn’t holding up their end of the conversational
bargain.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Nov. 13). This solar journey
has you keenly aware of how every experience
changes you in some way. Because of this, you put
yourself in the line of beauty and sign yourself up for
the challenges that might blossom the qualities you
desire to embody. You will be surprised and pleased
by the results of these endeavors. Cancer and Libra
adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 40, 44, 28 & 14.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 New Scorpio Moon
As the sign of transformation, Scorpio’s powers surge
strongly through the hopes of the new moon, the lunar
influence of becoming. In what area would you like to
make a new choice? What vision is inspiring enough
to make you want to start fresh, launch a different
adventure and thus, change who you are? Focus there
and believe.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). If you had to put today’s
problem into a box, then it would be a tiny box. Maybe
you can live with this one and learn to see it as a quirk
or feature instead of a problem.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Don’t let others frame
the situation for you. If you have the feeling of being a
piece in a game – played, not player – it’s a sign that
you need to look carefully at the power dynamics and
find your points of leverage.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). People will be persistent,
trying to convince you of what is possible and what
is impossible. These are only opinions. What’s your
take? That’s the one that matters.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). An exercise: Let your
mind do funhouse mirror trickery on a situation and
some scary, interesting, hilarious and creative ideas
come of it. Then leave the funhouse, and the mirrors,
and see it in the light of day.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ve been known to think
about what would be the most attractive move, and
there are other times when you just don’t worry about
it and do only what you want. Either way works now,
but you have to commit fully to it.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You can’t be vigilant
about everything. If you could, you’d be perfect, and
perfectly boring, repellant even, because humans
tend to like those that are more or less like them,
which is to say flawed.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). When you’re in it, telling
yourself to do the next correct move, courage naturally
flows. It is not until later, when you look back, that you
will realize just how brave it is to live admirably in
daily life.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Being supportive to
yourself might not be your first instinct. Sometimes,
it’s hard to think of the right ways to coach. Make
the effort to figure it out though because progress
depends on consistent self-encouragement.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You are typically
so steady that people around you don’t expect you
to change your mind, let alone change it three or four
times, but such things are acceptable and naturally
when you’re finding your way.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You get inspiration
from multiple sources – the passing clouds, a picture
that triggers a memory, the song on the radio, all
channeled into sorting your feelings about someone.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Are you the most
qualified person to assess your situation? The jury is
still out. An outsider will either help you understand
something you didn’t before or validate your own view
of it.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). In games of cat and
mouse, the mouse needs to disappear sometimes,
thereby stopping the chase and creating in the cat
an excited sense of anticipation for the next surprise
appearance.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Nov. 14). Often along this solar
journey, you’ll find yourself acting for the sheer joy of
it, or out of curiosity, or for the thrill of the experience.
You will often be without expectation, and therefore
relaxed and present to all the possibilities. Romance,
friendship, family bonds and relationships of all kinds
will be your specialty. Capricorn and Sagittarius adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 1, 13, 20 and 6.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS