PUZZLES
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Retail Therapy by Leslie Rogers
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Extra, for one
6 Frequently
improvised
feature of jazz
10 Cash-out spots?
14 Sibling of Huey
and Dewey
15 Abel’s brother
16 Blue-green
17 Where to buy
male cows?
19 Stay in your
pajamas all day,
say
20 Raises, as the
ante
21 French article
22 Got well
24 Pastry that may
have a beef filling
27 Make blush,
maybe
28 Where to buy
testimony?
32 Queen co-
founder May
35 Lowland
36 Contend
37 Has a campaign
38 Worth ___ penny
40 Brazilian soccer
champion
41 And so forth:
Abbr.
42 Scientist Pavlov
43 Puzzling problem
44 Where to buy the
current trends?
48 Fabric that adds
volume to gowns
49 Musical patterns
53 Tight, old-
fashioned
garment
55 Soup container
56 Payment promise
57 Hazy or juicy
beers, for short
58 Where to buy
panes?
62 Kite part
63 Slushy drink
64 Obliterate
65 Woods of
“Legally Blonde”
66 Trail mix
components
67 Bedbug, e.g.
DOWN
1 Lizzo’s “Cuz I
Love You,” for
one
2 Two-door car
3 Oklahoma city
4 Avocado or
coconut liquid
5 Sleep stage
letters
6 Seat-back
amenity on a
plane
7 Sources of wood
for barrels
8 “Let sleeping
dogs ___”
9 Covertly
10 Etta James song
with the lyric “My
lonely days are
over”
11 They might be in
hot water
12 Setting for Pac-
Man
13 Husky’s
conveyance
18 Came to earth
23 Facilitate
25 “Jabberwocky”
opener
26 Stick to the top of
a feed, as a tweet
27 Bygone Russian
ruler
29 Makes level
30 River whose
flooding is
celebrated in
Egypt
31 Animal on a
yellow road sign
32 Bar offering
33 ___ Bader
Ginsburg
34 Path that leads to
Machu Picchu
38 Imaginary sinister
sibling
39 It tells you which
way the wind
blows
40 Limerick writer
42 Spot of land
43 Use an oyster
knife, say
45 Skirmish
46 Strategic
Monopoly
transactions
47 Words of dismay
50 Drummer’s pair of
cymbals
51 Largest species
of 31-Down
52 Excellent,
informally
53 Quote from
54 Milky gemstone
55 Tech review site
59 R.N.’s workplace
60 It’s traversed by
crawlers
61 ___ Lanka
Double Headers by Andrew J. Ries
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Peach stone
4 Container for
gratuities
10 Dough
dispensers
14 Period of time
15 Single-celled
organism
16 ___ row (stretch
in many a college
town)
17 Scoring partner?
19 Piece in a mosaic
20 Looking down on
21 They become
wind instruments
when “f” is added
23 In the manner of
24 Alaskan city on
the Bering Sea
25 The ___ Moines
Register
26 Faith with Five
Pillars
28 Got going
30 “My deepest
apologies”
32 Khaki color
33 Use a needle and
thread
34 Wet dirt
35 Libertarians’
2020 presidential
candidate
38 Small island
39 Skin pic
40 Long period of
time
41 1992 Stacey
Dash rom-com
featuring a credit
card con
43 Antagonist in
“Coco”
47 Suffuse
48 E.R. employees
49 Real comedian
50 Jacuzzi product
51 Come to a point
54 Stave off
55 Trivia host’s clue
57 Like a straight
shooter
59 Gucci of fashion
fame
60 “The Answer Is
...” memoirist
Alex
61 Word paired with
“neither”
62 Roach or rat
63 Jousting horses
64 Donkey
DOWN
1 Nuts in some pies
2 Sci-fi collection
first published in
1950
3 Site of a
University of
Washington
satellite campus
4 Far from feral
5 Unruly kid
6 Combined, as
assets
7 Nativity scene
figure
8 Illegally assist
9 Doneness option
for a burger
10 Toward the stern
11 Testing phase
12 Common duck
13 Hot and humid
18 News anchor’s
hand-off line
22 Khloe, to Kim,
informally
25 Signify
27 “What gall!”
29 ___ Mahal
30 “Get it?”
31 Deeds list them
33 Drill instructor’s
rank, often: Abbr.
35 Groups that
improvise songs
36 Bit of hope,
metaphorically
37 Daughter’s
sibling, perhaps
38 Put together, like
an anthology
41 Unfortunate
occurrence
42 Need for catching
butterflies
43 Coat, as with
chocolate
44 Raw or burnt
color
45 Statues’
midsections
46 Frolicking marine
mammals
48 Zellweger with
two Oscars
52 Tunneling insects
53 Strong wine
54 Inquires
56 Day care enrollee
58 Benedict’s
nickname, maybe
East Oregonian
A13
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2021 Friday and the Wild Moon
The centaurs, the half-man, half-horse breed with
whom Sagittarius energy is associated, have a
reputation for being wild by standards of both horse
and man. They are known to roam restlessly and aim
their hunting arrows at targets impossible to hit. And
yet, hit them they do, and so will you this weekend of
the wild Sagittarius moon.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re a treasure. If
you want to be pursued, then go where the treasure
hunters are. Like a tattoo in invisible ink, it takes a
special light to see the art, and it really only happens
when a person knows it’s there in the first place.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). We can only be trapped
by what we want. We are held by our own white
knuckles clinging to what we don’t want to let go of.
Fear of loss is the turn of the key that locks us in
chains. If you agree to lose, then you will be free.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You have more stories
than you think. The things you’ve done are so familiar
to you that you cannot imagine how impressive they
would be to another person, but if you share, you’ll
find out.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). The best and brightest
version of future-you hinges on the ability of today-
you to pay close attention. To stay engaged, figure out
what’s in it for you, even when the scene seems to
revolve completely around the other person.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Sometimes, you have faith
and you act on it. Today, your faith isn’t as strong, but
you still benefit from action. Keep shooting for the
goal regardless of whether you think you can make it.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Messes occur. It’s not
your job to clean them up, though you’ll probably do
it anyway, or at least be involved, because leaving
things better than you found them is in your creed.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Some pressures exist only
because of a thought. The thought doesn’t have to
be true to make the pressure very real. A thought is
causing you stress unnecessarily. Identify and release
it.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). If you ask the others,
they’ll tell you what they see and you won’t be able to
help being influenced. To find that truly original take
on the situation, wait before you ask. Look at it a long
time by yourself first.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Trying to
accomplish everything on the list will be too stressful
and counterproductive. Decide on what you’re not
going to do today and, suddenly, everything lightens
up. Plus, you move quicker.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There’s a risk inherent
in every interaction, only it doesn’t feel as risky with
those whom you can predict. Fresh blood will energize
you and bring about your most daring self.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). With so many
unwritten rules governing today’s interactions, you
may just decide to go rogue and put an end to the
easy compliance that has been the dysfunctional
norm of the situation.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). No one knows how you
do it, but somehow you’re able to draw vitality from
lackluster scenes, badly illuminated in fluorescent
light. Your imagination knocks out walls to install its
own sun-streamed windows.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 5). An inspiring
relationship plays into the changes you make this year.
That long list of things you didn’t have time for before
gets a lot shorter as you check off many adventures.
You’re not setting out to develop yourself; it just happens.
Plans shift and expand. There are more people to care
for and also put to work. Cancer and Scorpio adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 1, 36, 46, 10 and 5.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2021 Playground of the Pisces Sun
At this point in the Pisces solar journey, we are
getting so used to playing in the ethereal that we
no longer identify it as a dream. We accept the
spiritual playground and play in a sandbox filled with
clouds. The moon seeks to help out as she slips from
Sagittarius into Capricorn, where ideas become plans,
strategies, systems and tactics.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You cannot make a point
with someone who won’t, can’t or just isn’t listening.
The growth of your influence depends on picking the
right audience, something you have a talent for now.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). They want you to believe,
but why? Who benefits from your adherence to the
belief system? And if all were to comply, would the
outcome be something you could get behind?
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You let people express
themselves fully and make efforts to quiet your
mind as you listen so that you will not be too quick
to overlay your own experiences onto other people’s
stories.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). The moon seems silent,
though scientists have suggested it rings like a bell.
You definitely know the feeling, as you can be pretty
close-lipped about the plans of your soul, though
certain people hear the ringing anyway.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). While you enjoy fantasy,
glamour, high art and things of great aesthetic value,
you appreciate best the intense beauty of unassuming
and personally meaningful things that fall right into
your unreaching hands.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ve known the sting of
longing for what you can’t have. At one point in your
life, you even found it romantic. Those days are gone.
You currently seek only what’s seeking you, and will
be satisfied by today’s union.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’re in for a sudden wave
of feeling. Though it’s not induced by a person, but
rather it’s a new-to-you idea or creation that seems
every bit as alive as the breathing things in this world.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Don’t let the mythologies
around love color your own ideas too literally. For
example, “love at first sight” is only one version. It
is every bit as exciting to build a friendship into
something more electrifying.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You are devoted to
the team and the prize that the team is going for. This
you will chase with more fervor than you would any
solo goal. What gives the trophy its power is that it’s
shared.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Whether a behavior
is useful or not will be a matter of debate. The debate
itself is a pretty strong clue. When things are working
for everyone, the subject of usefulness won’t even
come up.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Insight into who you
are and why you make certain choices is no small
gain. It’s knowledge not usually acquired in school or
imparted by experts. Insights into self are the gold of
true seekers. You’re to be commended.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your actions are an
expression of how you think about yourself. You get
that in a big way, and you’ll double-down on those
actions that feel utterly fantastic to you these days.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 6). The world will get
an emboldened version of you. You’ve seen how
repetitive behaviors can limit a person’s experience,
and you won’t let it happen to you. Your story bursts
open wide as you break patterns and take the plot to
thrilling places. A summer change-up will spark new
relationships. Invest in July. Sagittarius and Aquarius
adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 40, 2, 27 and
14.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS