PUZZLES
Thursday, January 21, 2021
Knife Skills by Lynn Lempel
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Flat-topped hills
of the Southwest
6 Band with a
museum in
Stockholm
10 Device
downloads
14 Put forth, as
effort
15 Troubles
16 Chowder chunk
17 Speak vaguely
19 Adobe abode,
perhaps
20 See 38-Across
21 Title boxer of a
2001 biopic
22 Election
participant
23 Fragrant purple
shrub
26 5, for 125
29 Barry with the hit
song “Mandy”
31 Stereotypical
mathlete
32 Unskilled
33 In an unfriendly
manner
35 Amt. based on
100
38 With 20-Across,
first National
Leaguer to hit
500 home runs
39 Twitter symbol
41 Hollywood’s
“Norma ___”
42 School
commence-
ment?
43 Greatest Hits
song, often
44 Air spray targets
46 Martial art with
throws
47 Marriage partners
49 Yahtzee, e.g.
53 Take into the
family, as a
shelter dog
54 Wharton who
wrote “Ethan
Frome”
55 Harvard Univ.
neighbor
57 Seine substance
59 Risks money at
the track
60 Sushi-eating
implements
64 Current craze
65 ___ California
(Mexican state)
66 Entered a poker
game
67 Gobs and gobs
68 Declined
69 Iraqi port
DOWN
1 Note from the
boss
2 They connect to
off-ramps
3 Guards keeping
watch
4 Curve
5 Sault ___ Marie,
Michigan
6 Deserter’s
acronym
7 Kind of acid used
as an antiseptic
8 Hotel room
essential
9 Numbskull
10 International
agreement
11 Greek author of
the “Republic”
12 Sporty ‘90s
Toyota
13 Brainy
18 Texas home of
Baylor University
22 “Nice job!”
24 Half a kissing
couple?
25 However
27 Joins forces
28 Composer Bartok
29 Speechless
performer
30 Sagacity
34 Tai ___
35 Possibilities
36 Pet owner, for
one
37 Hardy’s Miss
Durbeyfield
40 Alan of “Bridge of
Spies”
45 Twosome
46 Social elites on
the go
48 Bits of butter
49 Actress Messing
of “Will & Grace”
50 Embodiment of
perfection
51 Gas station name
52 Texted image
with an attitude
56 Tablet for surfers
58 Fed. food and
farming agency
60 “Big Brother”
network
61 Computer in
“2001: A Space
Odyssey”
62 Bar bill
63 ___ jiffy
College Expenses by Erik Agard
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
East Oregonian
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2021 Martian Message
Good decisions are made of sound minds acting on
favorable odds. Good outcomes are up to the fates.
While good decisions have a better probability of
creating good outcomes, the best decision of all is
to be proud enough of the action that the outcome
is irrelevant. This message was brought to you by a
square of Mars and Jupiter.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). It’s not that some are
worthy of your attention and others aren’t, but you
can only give your attention to one at a time. Now,
there is the matter of fitting the right offering to the
one who can extract value from it.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You would like to hear
that you are the best at something, and you don’t
even care if it’s true or not. Maybe it will become true
in time, but right now the chiming sound of those
melodious words is gift enough.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Great work in its early
stages looks a lot like a mess, a blunder or a confusing
pile of disparate elements. There are no failures, and
no successes either – only prototypes of varying
effectiveness in serving the original purpose.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). It’s as though you have
a committee inside of you, and you will do what the
majority vote tells you to do. If there are conflicting
ideas, expect inaction. You’re hard to convince, even
when you’re the one doing the convincing.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your instincts are dead-
on. When you trust someone, you’re open to their
surprises. And when you don’t trust someone, there
is no reason to be involved at all.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). There’s no need to
wonder about whether what you’re giving today is
good enough. You sense what others are missing and
fill in the blanks for them. What could be more elegant
than this?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The current cosmic
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2021 Selfless Square
The golden rule of doing unto others as you would
have done to you is only awesome when everyone
wants the same thing. Today, follow the platinum
rule instead, giving people what they most want and
leaving your own preferences out of it. Oddly enough,
this Mars square Jupiter suggests you credit yourself
for selflessness.
give it your absolute all. This you’ll do whether paid,
unpaid, ignored or celebrated.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You will take confident
action that affects every area of your life. Being
strong, decisive and outspoken in one situation makes
it easier to be the same the next time and the next.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Shy people intrigue
you. You also feel a degree of social anxiety but will
not let that deter you from getting to know people
and letting them know you, which is among the most
pleasurable experiences of life.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Today, your expertise
centers around balancing. Mostly it is a matter of core
strength and quick reflexes, plus being ready to make
adjustments necessary to maintain equilibrium.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). The question of the day:
Should you save or invest? Unless you’re absolutely
so passionate about the prospects that you don’t
mind losing money to them, opt for saving.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). One person’s treat is another
person’s punishment. Getting to know what others
like is a pursuit that has the potential to, ultimately,
bring pleasure to all.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The way you see things
will affect how others see them. You’re like a lighting
director applying the colored gel to diffuse the scene
in just the right tones.
32 With 33-Across,
tuition at a
Pennsylvania
school?
33 See 32-Across
35 Monastery leader
38 Pinkie’s where?
39 You might hold
one in captivity,
or vice versa
42 Wheedle
43 Tuition at an Iowa
school?
46 Ice cream brand
founder Joseph
47 A triceratops had
three
48 “Understood”
49 Blue expanse
50 Dorsey of TV
51 Tolkien tree
creatures
52 Tuition at a
Louisiana
school?
57 ___ Powers, aptly
named women’s
basketball star
58 “Oh, who cares?”
59 Babyproofing
goal
60 Era
61 Have a go at
DOWN
1 Body part that
some robots
imitate
2 Radio host’s fear
3 Goes down a
web page
4 Comfortable
5 It hardens in a
tray
6 Paper HQ’d in
Manhattan
7 Ontario neighbor
8 Have dreams
9 Most definitely
dissimilar to this
clue
10 Singer Grande’s
nickname
11 Alan who played
Snape
12 “In the optimal
case ...”
14 ___ pay
17 Cross-
promotional ploy
21 Disapproving
clucks
22 Prez from Texas
23 “Tarnation!”
26 “Doing that now”
27 It can be in the
fire
28 Triumphed
31 Neat
32 Old-fashioned
ailment
33 Some can be
unscrewed
34 “Snakes ___
Plane”
35 Cards with A’s
36 Corner stores
37 Palo Alto’s region
38 Matisse or
Rousseau
39 Most viable
option
40 Very low-rated
41 Chowed down
43 Fighting
44 By mouth
45 Plied a pickax
47 Friend, informally
51 Maze component
53 Barking sound
54 Joel Embiid’s
sports org.
55 Party, e.g., for a
DJ
56 Tricksy
alignment activates your play mode. You might even
find yourself performing for your phone -- harmless
enough, as long as you realize that there’s something
irreversible about hitting “send.”
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The fortuitous
arrangement has not been forthcoming. What gives?
You don’t like their offer. They don’t respond to yours.
It’s all a signal to broaden the search terms.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). This weird bit is
true: “Failing” at a new task is far more satisfying
than succeeding at a task you’ve already mastered.
The quotations are used because it’s very possible
that “failure” is just an early version of success.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Others may be happy
when you take the known road, but you’re not in
charge of the happiness of others, you’re in charge
of your own happiness, which is more likely to unfold
when you take the other one.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Sometimes, you need
space, and other times you need closeness. You
appreciate the one who understands the limits of
intense engagements and follows up intensity with
sweetness and distance.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your empathy is a
talent for sure, but it can also be overwhelming to
feel so much for others when you cannot do anything
about those feelings. Whatever you can do to be
communicative and persuasive will help.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 22). You’ll manage others
like a boss, and you’ll delegate like a psychic. The
most impressive part is that you do this outside of a
work context. Maybe it’s a weird thing to celebrate,
but you cannot argue this impressive fact of your
talent – people love being ordered around by you. The
windfall comes in August. Pisces and Aries adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 8, 5, 12, 28 and 17.
Universal SUDOKU
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll see the overall
picture that others are losing sight of. Speak up about
it! By nature, you are an executive who will manage
others and delegate masterfully.
ACROSS
1 Mid-show plugs
4 Sloth, for one
7 Denizen of Doha
13 ___ effect
(memory bias
toward items at
the end of a list)
15 Password go-
with
16 Tuition at a
Wisconsin
school?
18 Actor or politician
Jones
19 Long-legged bird
20 Kit ___
22 In-land connector
23 “Nothing Runs
Like a ___”
(machinery
slogan)
24 D.C. United’s
sports org.
25 Tuition at a Texas
school?
28 Crossing
instruction
29 Many internship
applicants, briefly
30 Bread from a
tandoor
31 Musical awards
A11
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’re not one to grind
away at a futile task, but if you have the slightest
indication that it matters to a few people, then you’ll
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). While busily doing what it
takes to survive within the context of an environment
you have landed in, it’s easy to forget where your
choices lie. You’ll wake up to a circumstance and see
your options anew.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). In the coaching
community, the question is worded, “How are you
showing up?” If posed this question, your own
community would probably answer, “Super strong.”
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). There is absolutely no
use in wishing you were anywhere else. Your current
location and state of being as a good a place to start
from as any, and much better than most.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The downtime isn’t
really downtime at all. It’s a chance for you to get
better acquainted with your surroundings and the
cast of characters who will be with you on the next
adventure. Take advantage.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 23). You are well aware
that anything worth accomplishing is done through
blood, sweat and tears, and you’re not averse to the
investment. The adventure your restless soul has not
been able to take will now call you forward – better
even are the funds that show up to aid in this. Best
of all is the company you’ll keep in this journey. Libra
and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 15,
1, 24 and 18.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS