PUZZLES
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Holding Periods by Zhougin Burnikel
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Expire, as a
subscription
6 Some movie
theaters
10 Animal that oinks
13 Portion out
14 Put on a pouty
face
15 Raunchy writing
17 Miso and udon
dishes
18 *Improvise (see
letters 6 to 9 in
this answer)
20 Get-together,
casually
21 Where poodles
are pampered
22 “Midsommar”
director Aster
23 *Home in a tall
building (7 to 12)
26 Arcade game
pioneer
27 Precursor to
rocksteady
28 Number that
shares a key with
@
29 Problem
33 Poodle’s
annoyance
37 *1979 Rod
Stewart hit
whose title is a
question (1 to 3)
41 The “S” of GPS:
Abbr.
42 Aetna competitor
43 Overtime cause
44 Hosp. surgical
areas
47 Windshield
hazard
49 *Shared
characteristics (4
to 8)
55 80, for Dr. Fauci
56 Professional
pursuit
57 Showroom model
60 Workplace
respite, and
a hint to the
starred answers’
indicated letters
62 Consume
completely
63 Rogen of “Steve
Jobs”
64 Kept in the email
loop
65 Like a fresh
muffin
66 Retirement
benefits org.
67 Egg farm
mothers
68 Poker entry fees
31 College, in British
slang
32 Heart test, briefly
34 “We need proof!”
DOWN
35 Walk off the
1 Glasgow girl
stage
2 Hand cream
36 Assent that
additive
sounds like a
3 Teddy bears, e.g.
vowel
4 Bush of “One
38 Molecule
Tree Hill”
component
5 Mars rovers,
39 Conclude
perhaps?: Abbr.
through logic
6 According to
40 “Mary
7 Prefix meaning
Magdalene” star
“many”
Rooney
8 School group
45 Loser to paper
9 Uses a certain
46 Grab
video chat
48 Most likely to win
program
49 Airport-to-hotel
10 K-pop star who
transports
rose to fame in
50 Folklore meanies
2012
51 Swim team
11 “To be clear ...”
events
12 Watch over
52 Blink of an eye
16 The Chicks, e.g. 53 Macho sorts
19 Support with
54 Plants used in
funds
basketry
21 Engage in an
58 Creative
online scam
inspiration
24 Stick-to-itiveness 59 Goes (for)
25 Bumbling ones
61 “I figured it out!”
26 Out of town
62 Thurman of
28 Six-pt. plays
“Gattaca”
30 (This wasn’t my
error)
The End Is the Beginning by Rebecca Goldstein
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Depilatory brand
5 “Surely you ___!”
9 Formal
agreements
14 Present opening?
15 Region
16 Dole out
17 *Intergalactic
makers’ studio?
(hint: read each
starred answer’s
middle word
twice)
20 Quick look
21 Runway display
22 New York NBA
player
24 Played music at a
club
26 Snowballs, in a
snowball fight
27 Actress
Rowlands
28 Moderate gait
29 Long-eared
animals
30 *Retaliation for
overdue wages?
33 Nonbinary
possessive
34 Speech-language
pathologist’s
concerns
38 *Where Fred
Flintstone goes
to get away from
it all?
43 ___-full
47 Eclipse, to some
48 Mineral deposits
49 Queue
50 Texter’s “Then
again ...”
51 Bread for Swiss
cheese?
52 Sandal feature
54 Chest press
targets, informally
55 *Chardonnay
served at a state
dinner, say?
60 Network
connections
61 Like some
affordable
textbooks
62 GPS calculations
63 Trains in the ring
64 Prepare for
takeoff
65 Enlist again
DOWN
1 Negative replies
2 What an electric
guitar hooks up
to
3 If all else fails
4 Puffed snack
5 Guy in a toy box?
6 Add wrong,
perhaps
7 ___ shanty
8 Ball gown fabric
9 Word after
“boarding” or
“touchdown”
10 Pack leaders
11 Insurance cases
12 In store
13 Shorthand pros
18 Startled cry
19 Wee bit
22 Soviet spy org.
23 Tidy
24 Like some hard
cider
25 “You had one
___!”
28 Skating gold
medalist Lipinski
29 Similar (to)
31 Guitar strummer
32 Extended family
35 Hot day
36 2019 film that
won Best Picture
37 “Frozen” reindeer
39 Replace,
electorally
40 Dashboard
Confessional
genre
41 “I’m not
impressed”
42 Upper-left key
43 Birthday party
performers
44 Genre for Nicki
Minaj
45 Upstate New
York tribe
46 One often on the
rebound?
50 “I’m impressed!”
51 Not many
53 Model Holliday
54 Toenail treatment,
informally
56 Megan Rapinoe’s
team
57 Kind of hormone
58 T, on a sorority
sweatshirt
59 Sixth sense, for
short
East Oregonian
A15
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2021 The Secret to This Lunar Obstacle Course
Most people adopt their friend’s perspective on
a conflict, a tendency that causes prejudice and
thwarts the potential for the understanding that
comes of balanced truth-seeking. Those who resist
this tendency today will happily avoid the pitfalls of a
badly aspected Uranus whilst thriving in the harmony
of a double-trine Leo moon transit.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Orphans and strays
will be attracted to you because wherever you go,
whatever you do, you carry with you a strong sense of
grounding. Being around you feels like home.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Clicking around the
internet, it’s easy to find 10 people doing the same
thing as you. However, you don’t let that in any way
discourage you. You can be sure that no one will bring
it together in quite the manner as you will.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You will take people to
new places, either physically or figuratively, just by
being the bold version of yourself who is curious,
playful and magnetically drawn to novel territory.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Comfort actually
undermines your work because you need people to
be alert and on their toes, curious about what you’ll
do next. Challenge people’s comfort to energize the
scene.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Investigate before you try to
fix a thing. Has it ever been fixed? Is a solution within
the realm of possibility given the time frame? If it
doesn’t have a solution, then it’s not a problem, just a
state of things to accept and get used to.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You take pride in your
ability to protect and reassure others, providing them
with a sense of security that’s a rare and precious
gift in this big, wild world. Whether they know and
appreciate this is a story for another time.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You want to know how
everything works individually, and then how it works
together, and how it works in perpetuity. But first, take
the quick, concrete action to get it working, period.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’ll make exceptional
findings but it is not currently necessary to tell anyone
or even to marvel at the specialness. These are early
stages, and this part of the unfolding is meant just
for you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’ve overcome
obstacles, so give yourself credit for that. Going
forward is easier when you remember who you are,
recognize what you’ve done and believe in your ability
to repeat success.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You really don’t
have to be certain of your outcome to be confident.
The confidence doesn’t come from knowing you’ll
succeed; it comes from knowing you’ll prevail either
way and, likely, eventually, figure it out.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You know when to
strategically give your message in a whisper because
people making an effort to lean in are more receptive
listeners than people blown back by intensity and
volume.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). What you’re doing is
for a very specific and small audience – maybe that
audience is just you for now – and that’s how you
know it matters. Because if it raises you up, then it
does the whole world a favor.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 24). You will be guided
by a spiritual alignment with assurances that hail
from deep within you. This support, as ancient and
strong as a gigantic redwood tree, will also seem to
come from the outside. It’s coming from people with
deep roots and entities of might and history, and the
karma of an ancestral lineage. Pisces and Virgo adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 22, 12, 6, 38 and 40.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021 Emotional Cancer Moon
In this age of artificial intelligence, there may come a
day in which any task that can be automated will be.
On this day of strong feelings, emotional bonds and
interactions that reinforce our sense of belonging, we
have the most fun with the sort of tasks and mental
states that fall squarely into the domain of humanity,
and it will never be otherwise.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Just as the light of the
sun encourages the flowers to open up, people take
your warmth as an invitation to share their stories,
experiences and all the beauty inside to you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your instincts, like
knives, will be sharpened by scraping the hard, flinty
surface of an interesting, immobile-seeming problem.
This is the kind of invaluable training that can’t be
bought.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You don’t have a problem
with biting off more than you can chew because you
have the equivalent of utensils at your disposal. You
have the tools to take a big chunk, and then cut it
down the perfect manageable size.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). There are those you
know who seem averse to work and yet still come out
ahead. You don’t mind working but observe the “lazy
strategists” anyway to be sure you’re putting effort in
where it’s necessary and will matter.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Often the line between
adversary and ally is surprisingly fine. Conflict
doesn’t an enemy make. Your team is stronger when
you include people whose ideas conflict with yours.
Diversify for might.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ve a creative way of
explaining things, and people love to listen to the way
you share what you know. Who else needs to know
this? Your gift of teaching will augment your fortunes.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Don’t worry about pleasing
others. They may think they know what they want.
Yet, it’s something else entirely that will make them
happy. You’re better off pleasing yourself and letting
them catch up later.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Make your presentation
smooth and glossy. Getting the extra shine will take
about the same amount of time as it took to build the
thing to the level of “pretty good,” but it will be worth
it to attain that wow factor.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’re an excellent
judge of character, so follow your sense about people
to determine who will inspire you to stay on-task and
in the optimal mood.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Some would say you
are kind when you don’t have to be, but they don’t
know your moral code commands kindness always.
Of course, kindness comes in many forms, some
unlikely.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Sometimes, the rocky
road leads to a beautiful vantage, and sometimes it’s
a hard road to nowhere. This is something to figure
out before you embark. Consult the maps and the
seasoned hikers.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Things can get better on
their own, but perhaps not in the time frame you’d like
them to. Besides, it’s more fun when you know you’ve
had a hand in the improvement.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (March 25). You’re inventive and
will solve a problem that vexes many. In this regard,
you’ll carve out a niche for yourself and get a golden
ticket to a new realm. It’s not a one-shot opportunity
though, so don’t be too quick to make a deal or be
exclusive. Family successes make you proud, too.
You’ll have plenty to celebrate together! Libra and Leo
adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 40, 1, 11 & 42.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS