PUZZLES
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
“Up” ’Dos by Stella Zawistowski
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Muscles used
while rowing, for
short
5 List-shortening
abbr.
8 Etsy shop
contents
14 Far from calm
16 Like some
traditional
medicine
17 Less nice
18 Visual sharpness
19 Forest moon of
“Star Wars”
20 Steal from
21 Muscles used
while planking
23 Often-anticipated
day of the wk.
25 Tool useful for
latke-making
29 Close to one’s
heart
31 Decided to
discuss later
33 X-___ machine
34 Richards of
“Starship
Troopers”
36 Double-checked
38 Activity of high
interest?
40 Kondo on Netflix
41 Muscular dog
44 Settings for a
photographer
47 Tool thrown in
some bars: Var.
48 Remove using a
crowbar
50 Cleveland’s lake
51 Manager’s
concern
53 ___ Lipa
(Grammy winner
for “Electricity”)
54 Not many
55 48 teaspoons
56 Crown for a
princess
59 “Oh, really?”
62 Frequent flyer’s
rewards
65 More simple
66 Scouring supply
67 One receiving
texts at work?
68 “___ Miserables”
69 Pastrami
purveyor
DOWN
1 Lucy of
“Elementary”
2 “Raggedy” doll
3 Ride-shares, in a
way (see letters 9
to 7)
4 Go in circles?
5 One may list
grades (12 to 9)
6 Earth, in Spanish
7 “Proud Mary”
band, briefly
8 Ambassador’s
subordinate (9 to
6)
9 Elementary
school
instruments
10 First island
mentioned in
“Kokomo”
11 “Fidelity, Bravery,
Integrity” agcy.
12 Bit of ink?
13 Sneaky
15 Time ___ again
21 Get to a total
22 Sometimes-fuzzy
buzzer
24 Early PC maker
26 Binary test
options (8 to 5)
27 Body part with a
canal
28 Kind of bread
30 Bread-related
verb that sounds
like 28-Down’s
plural
32 On the ___
(escaping)
35 Excess amounts
37 Place in
cyberspace
39 Celebratory cry
41 River barrier
42 Maker of Good
Grips products
43 Agree without
speaking
45 3/14 dessert, for
some
46 Cross-stitch,
perhaps
49 Destined to fail
52 Second part of
“Cats”
57 Q&A on Reddit
58 Watermelon
discard
59 Vietnamese
holiday
60 Food for horses
61 Egyptian snake
62 Knee part: Abbr.
63 Unagi or anago,
at sushi bars
64 Hindu honorific
Shredded Cheese by Robert E. L. Morris
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 From ___ to
riches
5 Piece of clothing
with no sole?
9 Cut quickly
13 The “E” in
HOMES
14 French city that
inspired Van
Gogh
15 Wrestler/actor
John
16 Pie crust,
initially?
(unscramble
letters 5 to 9)
18 Johannesburg
currency
19 Private eye
Spade
20 Camel cousin
21 Assessed
22 Went ballistic
24 Cook in hot oil
26 Seize
27 Person who plays
a round
28 Hot dog topper
31 Communication
syst. involving
the hands
32 Work space, for
many
35 Beaver’s
construction
36 Beef or pork (... 3
to 6)
40 “I knew it!”
41 Haze in Los
Angeles
43 Nickname that
rhymes with Ray
44 Perfectly pitched
46 More likely to pry
48 “See ya!”
49 Fab Four
51 Southwestern
plant
54 Artist Neiman
55 Composer of the
“Semper Fidelis”
march
57 Greek P
59 Aphrodite’s son
60 Flying mammal
with sharp teeth
(... 5 to 8)
62 World’s longest
river
63 Once more
64 Country within
Somalia?
65 Oscar ___ Renta
66 Take care of, as a
bar
67 Washington bills
DOWN
1 AOC and others
2 Font similar to
Helvetica
3 Gadget
4 “___ who?”
5 Zagreb native
6 Grad
7 Massive amount
of a vitamin
8 “Sorta” suffix
9 Prepared for
repainting
10 One obsessed
with order (... 2 to
5)
11 Word before
“circle” or “tube”
12 Rice field
14 Off-the-cuff
remark
17 Bright star in
Aquila
21 NFL official
23 NBC show since
‘75
25 Jazz singer
Fitzgerald
27 One may spend
hours on an Xbox
Series X
28 ‘90s DJ’s
collection
29 Over-the-top
actor
30 “There’s no
stopping me!” (...
2 to 7)
33 Sow’s pronoun
34 Mary ___
cosmetics
37 Singer Brickell
38 Equestrian
competition
39 Matchbox item
that’s safe for
kids?
42 Set sail
45 After taxes
47 Crafty
48 Bathroom bowl
49 Mixture
50 Spooky
51 Matchmaker with
arrows
52 ___ legend
(questionably
true story)
53 Easily split rock
56 Yemen neighbor
58 Singer Redding
60 Large container
61 Angsty genre
East Oregonian
A13
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2020 Know Thine Frenemy
If you doubt yourself, then it’s because you’re smart.
Intelligence is a state of cluelessness. The clueless
person looks for clues and learns along the way.
The know-it-all struts through a landscape of fixed
belief and misses everything. Under the Libra moon,
this principle will be most auspiciously applied to
friendships and rivalries.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You have an inkling
about a fresh source of fun. It might not be the most
conventional thing, but you’ll be surprised at how
many others enjoy it, too. These endeavors light you
up and connect you with a thriving community.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Peer pressure doesn’t
stop just because a person is grown. Certain things
will be hard to say no to because their mass appeal
is so strong. The trick is in writing your own script
before the world writes one for you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). As long as you’re
shooting for the moon, you may as well shoot for the
sun. Either way, things change once you get out of the
atmosphere and thus the gravity of a certain situation.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Water itself is no rival
to your ability to go with the flow. But on a day like
today, you prefer events to happen in your timing. In
fact, you command them to as though an orchestra
conductor setting the tempo.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your friendships exist in a
kind of ringed system around the planet that is you.
The first tier is an elite group and someone has to
be extremely special to jump from one stratum to the
next, but it will happen today.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You can’t be sure if your
work speaks for itself unless you back off and let
it. Your silence will allow people to draw their own
conclusions and you can go from there.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Before you’re asked to
fulfill a role, give yourself the part you want. Those
who are well-aware of what they are saying “yes” to
will find it much easier to say “no” when they need to.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You were ambitious, so
you started. You were tenacious, so you finished. You
were grateful, so you thoroughly enjoyed the fruits of
your effort. That worked, so rinse and repeat.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You want love
and attention as much as the next person, but you
wouldn’t dream of asking for it. You’d rather work
for it, especially by creating delightful scenarios that
people are irresistibly drawn into.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Do you get the
sneaking suspicion that your talent could be better
used elsewhere? Perhaps you don’t have to go far
so much as up. Is there an opportunity for promotion
here?
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). When you’re warming
up, you have a few silly thoughts. When you’re on a
powerful roll, you have hundreds of them. The big
ideas will be sandwiched inside playful ones.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Though you’re
professional-level at many things, you’re an amateur
in other areas – a status to revel in. The pressure is
off. The horizon is open. Herein lies the freedom to
explore.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 9). Oft the initiator, this
solar return shows a role reversal – you will be most
auspiciously chosen, beckoned by a soul-fortifying
endeavor. You’ll prepare over many months for a
presentation – the first in many that will net you
impressive dividends and allow you to grow, teach
and employ others. Work and love intertwine. Virgo
and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8,
1, 30, 12 and 16.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2020 Mother Moon Speaks
It so happens that when a luminary moves from
Libra, the sign of harmonious, equitable, congenial
partnerships, to Scorpio, the sign of physical alchemy
and transformation, relationships can change. This is
good news for anyone who feels unhappily trapped
in the friend zone. Hang in there for the lunar change
of tide.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). If you were a comedian
today, then you’d be the kind that chides the audience
with, “Is that all you got?” Actually, it’s quite effective.
People sometimes need to be startled and led to
appropriate reactions.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). People need people.
Therefore, peer pressure is a very real and powerful
natural force that, unfortunately, people never really
grow out of. The theme comes up, and, depending on
the situation, it may just be easier to succumb.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Lessons can be read,
and that’s an introduction. But for the education to
really take place, a lesson must be lived. People are
changed not by information but by doing.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). When you look back at
paths not taken, you only see how they worked out for
other people. There’s no way of knowing what kind
of fit they would have been for you. Therefore, the
exercise is useless. Keep going forward.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). A fact that just sits there being
knowledge is not intelligence. Intelligence animates.
It applies. It is better to revel in the intelligence of
trees than to succumb to the coma of dead dogma.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Don’t waste your time
doing what someone else can (and is perfectly willing
to) do for you. Once you realize where your efforts and
minutes can make a difference, you won’t want to be
anywhere else.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your unpredictability
comes naturally today. Did you know that some
people work to conjure this? Because being hard to
anticipate keeps the competition off-balance, it’s is an
effective strategy for business, sports or love.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Other times, it was
easy to fit your talent to what the group needed and
wanted. Now, not so much, perhaps because the
group doesn’t know what it needs and wants. You’ll
have to poke around some to find it.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). No one falls in love
with a game that they can win on the first go-around.
Pursuing anything valuable means being willing to
fail. The more possible it is to fail, the more exciting
the pursuit.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). When someone pays
excellent attention to your expressions, preferences
and needs, it may actually make you uncomfortable,
as you’re not used to be so well-attended. Soak it in
anyway.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). For the most part, you’ll
love what develops organically and be nonplussed by
what is manufactured or manipulated into being. You
admire the effort, but the real deal is so much more
impressive.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You have a fan club
of sorts. You came by it honestly, by showing up
consistently where you were needed and wanted and
honoring their requests. Now, you’ll take pleasure in
the appreciation generously bestowed on you.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 10). The resources you felt
were inaccessible to you before will become available
in 2021. Clubs and alliances will figure into the action.
It will feel meaningful to be a part of something bigger.
You’ll pass the tests of gatekeepers. Invigorating
challenges await on the inside. Your work opens
doors. Scorpio and Capricorn adore you. Your lucky
numbers are: 49, 3, 31, 26 and 9.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS