PUZZLES
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Think Inside the Box by MaryEllen Uthlaut
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Digital data
transmitter
6 Bounding gait
10 Give a makeover
14 Harden (to)
15 Homer’s
“Odyssey,” e.g.
16 Islamic ruler
17 Meteorologist’s
jewelry?
19 Number
symbolized by its
third letter
20 “Help!” signal
21 Pilot products
22 Cries crocodile
tears on stage,
perhaps
24 The one specified
25 Speak without
distinction?
26 Military leader’s
jewelry?
32 British fellows
33 Many moons
34 ___ Paulo, Brazil
35 Home with your
honey?
36 Enjoys taffy
38 Rotisserie rod
39 Fermented malt
drink
40 Russia’s ___
Mountains
41 Full of energy
42
46
47
48
51
52
55
56
59
60
61
62
63
64
Waiter’s jewelry?
Moved up
Nothingness
Put a value on
Canary’s sounds,
collectively
Filmdom’s
DuVernay
Baptism, for one
Cricket player’s
jewelry?
“Argo” actor
Arkin
Tel ___
Without
interruption
Some Little
League players
Show of temper
Certain art class
models
DOWN
1 Hit’s counterpart
2 “Hold ___ your
dreams”
3 Pairs like The
Judds
4 Make a mistake
5 Tennessee city
known for blues
6 Rough shed
7 Chooses
8 Part of an Insta
story
9 Levels of
authority
10 Correct the bad
habits of
11 Give off
12 Headfirst plunge
13 Unrefined finds in
mines
18 Stop nursing
gradually
23 Fall bloomers, for
short
24 Cassette
recording
25 Flat-bottomed
boat
26 Word before
“pepper” or
“powder”
27 Place of refuge
28 Examines by
touching
29 Jelly that may
contain pieces of
meat
30 Overly trusting
31 Lavish affection
(on)
32 Burn slightly
36 Piece of a soccer
goal
37 Long-eared
sprinter
38 Went smoothly?
40 ETs’ vehicles
41 French city where
seven popes
lived
43 Spinach and
others
44 Unfold, as a
theory
45 Rice-A-___
48 Egyptian or
Emirati
49 Airtight tower
50 Time at a resort
51 Large gulp
52 Acted like
53 One may climb a
wall
54 “No ifs, ___ or
buts!”
57 Lab eggs
58 Antelope with a
mane
Grist for the Mill by Gary Larson
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 You may feed
them bread
crumbs
6 Ring or group at
a wedding
10 Select, with “for”
13 Ultimate object
15 Move like lava
16 Where rusty nails
may get you
hammered
17 “Dunno”
18 Like an inevitable
conclusion
20 Rainbow shapes
22 Certain retired
professor’s title
23 Attention-getting
sound
26 Whole lot
28 Degraded
29 Coffee, slangily
30 Wedding
32 “___ be a
pleasure”
33 Personification
35 Noble below a
viscount
37 Gives a new title
39 Mice and the like
43 Footnote abbr.
45 ___ disease
(gluten issue)
46 “Silent”
president’s
nickname
48 “Don’t worry
about that”
50 Jazz great Jones
51 Impressive
spread?
53 Leopard print
source?
54 Sleeveless
garment
55 Narrow fissure
57 Hurricane relief
org.
59 “Supposedly ...”
61 Eases
65 Alternative to
“com” or “org”
66 One may be
juiced for salsa
67 Founder of
Taoism
68 Some Mustangs
69 Footnote abbr.
70 Secret meeting
DOWN
1 Thieves’ place
2 Card game with a
Spanish name
3 Atlanta-based
health org.
4 *Greek morsel
with a meaty
texture (see
letters 9 to 7 in
this answer)
5 Insulting
comment
6 Lifelong pal,
briefly
7 Balm ingredient
8 *Longtime cover
artist for The
Saturday Evening
Post (9 to 6)
9 Social misfit
10 Player of a high
woodwind
11 Breathed hard
12 Tire pattern
14 *Tour for a
speaker (10 to 7)
19 Farmer’s storage
facility, and
a hint to the
starred answers’
backward hidden
words
21 Isaac, to
Abraham
23 Slightly open
24 “I ___ an idea!”
25 Third baseman
Longoria
27 Pen point
31 Stick in the
water?
34 Roadie’s armful
36 Poem of praise
38 Enjoy an easy
chair
40 Dark time,
informally
41 Pics that may be
matching
42 “Skedaddle!”
44 Sugar amt.
46 What a new
homeowner may
rip up
47 Turns away
49 Clumsy person
51 Looping in on an
email
52 Grocery store
passage
56 Watson of “Little
Women”
58 Vegetarian’s no-
no
60 Sushi fish
62 Sloppy farm area
63 Letters on a Navy
vessel
64 ___ peeve
(endless barking,
perhaps)
East Oregonian
A13
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2021 The Overlap of Love and Time
All timing is collaborative. Therefore, even if you are
working or playing solo, it will still be impossible to
come up with an accurate timetable all on your own.
As the goddess of love aligns with father time during
this Mercury retrograde, expect your cadence to be
strongly influenced by uncontrollable elements like
other people’s schedules.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). If you accidentally turn
right when you meant to turn left, then do it twice
more. Suddenly, you’ll be headed in the intended
direction. Bonus: You know more scenery than you
otherwise would have.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). One of the biggest
things you miss about being in large groups is the
unpredictable sights and encounters that happen
when a cross-section of people gather. You’ll get a
version of that today.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You are more important
to the action than you think. Your contribution may not
seem quantifiable, but it’s definitely real. There will be
a different outcome because you were there.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). It’s not like you were
planning on losing it over a wonderful development,
but whatever “it” is, say goodbye! Don’t worry, all
reason will be restored in time.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Socrates delivered words
pertinent to your day when he said: “True knowledge
exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in
knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the
smartest of all.”
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The first step in accepting
responsibility is to recognize there is one. You’re
usually the first to do it. Today, you’ll pick up the ball
that you didn’t even drop. Don’t hold it. Pitch it right
back into the game.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Do not assume that people
are acting out because of what they know or feel to be
true. Behaviors unfold for various reasons – including
and especially group identity.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You aspire to understand
how a thing works, but you’ll always have a special
appreciation for the fun that comes out of these early
moments of learning in which you have no idea what
you’re doing.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). It’s not so hard for
you to think of today’s interesting bit of trouble in a
variety of ways. It’s like you’re scrubbing a toolbar
of photo filters to find the one that gives the most
appealing look to the thing.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). What do child stars
and baby brothers and prodigies from all walks of life
have in common with you today? You all know how
embarrassing it can be to grow up in front of people.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). This is a game, and
you’re a player. Today, it will require you to accept
and abide by rules that are very different from those
existing outside the confines of the game.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There’s an implied
statute of limitations on a lot of the bad things that
happen to people. Compassionate supporters like you
are willing to listen right up to the point in which it’s
healthier to offer a tougher version of love.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 5). Your genius is in
realizing what’s worth working on. Subtle tweaks of
thought, tone and behavior will add up to blessings of
magnitude. You will master a skill and be impressed
how much this actually changes your circumstances.
Good news in the family realm kicks off a series of
celebrations and purchases. Scorpio and Sagittarius
adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 28, 1, 19 and
40.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2021 Venus Time Warp
In the context of a movie, miles, days and other
measures of space and time can be collapsed to
tell the story of a lifetime. Movies are not the only
devices to accomplish this miracle. As Venus aligns
with Saturn and then squares Uranus, passion has
a way of warping the space-time continuum. Love’s
plot, fantasy and memory run unbound.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). People really don’t
appreciate the extent of what you do for them, but
that’s actually better for you. The attention would only
slow you down. Besides, you’re not doing it for them.
This is your purpose!
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Everyone’s story begins
in song. You’ll contribute in kind to today’s section
of life, a bit of music to express what cannot be
expressed as well any other way.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It is tempting to, when
moved by appreciation and affection, get hyperbolic.
Just know that the largess of compliments of the
“best ever,” “amazing” and “awesome” variety could
be trumped by small, lovely specificity.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You probably won’t be
aware of what you think when you’re in the heat of
the action but ponder later and much will come to
you. Eventually, this gap in timing between action and
awareness will narrow significantly.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). If you had to make a
documentary of everything in the universe that
occurred today at noon, then the runtime would be
approximately infinite. Good thing you’re supremely
focused on tracking just your own business.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It will be a phenomenon
like love at first sight today, except add a couple
dozen viewings to the equation, since the object of
your affection will be a person, project or endeavor
you’ve been exposed to quite a lot already.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Considering Mercury’s
retrograde, today will be a remarkably straightforward
equation in which it’s easy to tell exactly how much
fun you will have. Participation correlates exactly with
pleasure.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You love everyone
differently, but there are definitely similarities in the
way you show up for friends, family, community and
romantic prospects. Those commonalities are giving
you a widespread reputation for generosity.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). When you’d rather
not know, it’s wise (and easy) not to ask. When
you’d love to know, but it’s none of your business,
not asking takes enormous restraint and personal
fortitude, which is what makes it the right move.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You do what’s
necessary. Sometimes it’s a trudge through the
muck to deliver a message no one wants to hear. But
today, the delivery is as sweet and easy as a squirt of
whipped cream to the top of a sundae.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Arguing can be fun
when it’s a spar against a worthy opponent, and it serves
to sharpen both, regardless of the winner. Ill-matched
arguments are as sad as any other unfair display.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). It is not every day that
you find yourself at liberty to do as you please, write
your ticket or take the form and make it your own.
That is why, when you can, you must.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Feb. 6). You’ll pose 12 questions
and get six affirmative answers – enough to go
forward and be prosperous. In general, do what gives
you joy so you’ll have more to forward. The love you
contribute confidently will be received and utilized
to fortify the good fight of improving matters beyond
what you will ever know. Aries and Taurus adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 4, 42, 9, 13 and 7.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS