PUZZLES
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Interior Design 101 by Steven L. Zisser
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Sky blue
6 Seat at a
hoedown
10 Sun-___ raisins
14 Swiss
watchmaker
15 Apple product
that may have 10
cores
16 “The Graduate”
star Bancroft
17 Apt furniture for a
car salesperson?
20 Government
number source:
Abbr.
21 ___ to grips with
22 Like some
patches
23 Cat also called a
cougar
24 P.R. firm specialty
25 Apt furniture for a
baker?
29 Single squat, say
32 Happen afterward
33 Wonderment
34 Notorious Roman
fiddler
35 Actor Hemsworth
36 Tied up
38 “Hmm, I guess
so”
39 Play parts
40 Tall, curved vase
41 Word before
“school” or “war”
42 Affirmative
answer
43 Apt furniture for a
candidate?
46 Capitol ___
47 Burden
48 In and of ___
51 Middle Earth
monsters
52 Grain in a chewy
cookie
55 Apt furniture for a
Big Ten coach?
58 Shoelace
problem
59 Garfield’s
frenemy
60 Like a SEAL or
Green Beret
61 Trees with
poisonous leaves
62 Chutzpah,
informally
63 76ers manager
Brand
DOWN
1 Pieces of 8?
2 Places to find
lions and tigers
and bears
3 Alphabetically
last arm bone
4 Gun, like an
engine
5 Sign, as a will
6 Digital image
format
7 Friend, in French
8 “Frankenstein”
workplace
9 Overshadowed
10 Grand Lodge
member
11 Common screen
name for a troll
12 Stats and the like
13 University honcho
18 Quarterback-
turned-
broadcaster Tony
19 Explorer ___ the
Red
23 Prunes, formerly
24 In stitches
25 4x400 race, e.g.
26 Not neat, at a bar
27 Hurdles for future
JDs
28 Intimidate
29 Detox facility
30 Eat away at
31 Jabbed with a
finger
34 Behavioral
standards
36 Animal that can
jump 10 times its
body length
37 Thermometer
type
41 Person at a board
meeting
43 Tidy or untidy
stack
44 Compels
45 Back in the day
46 Tests the weight
of
48 Like creepy-
crawlies
49 “Leave a
message at the
___”
50 Fall associated
with winter
51 “I’ll get busy!”
52 Somber bio
53 Palo ___
54 Learner’s permit
holder, often
56 End of a prof’s
email address
57 Word before “for
one” and after
“one for”
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
36 Musical about a
group of artists
37 When Zeus was
unhappy with life,
he was ...
40 Perseverance
rover’s planet
42 Gets down to
propose
43 Calls to mind
46 ___-Caps
47 Muscle twitch
50 Cut the lawn
51 “Bye-bye,” to a
Brit
54 2021 Australian
Open winner
Osaka
56 HP products
57 When Athenians
settled on the
Nile, they named
their town ...
60 Musical about a
group of hippies
62 Grant permission
for
63 Three-vowel
berry
64 “I had no ___!”
65 Witherspoon of
“Home Again”
66 Light-colored
67 Put in order
68 Beasts of burden
69 Some are named
for monarchs
DOWN
1 Alters for a new
purpose
2 Adds to, as a tab
3 The Philippines’
capital
4 High-five sounds
5 Assembly place
for heros?
6 Final or oral
7 Jazz genre
8 Valuable stash
9 Word before
“bean” or
“cheese”
10 Umpire’s cry
11 Chosen divinely
12 Age for a
quinceanera
13 Pupil
21 Rare eye color
22 Immigrant’s
class, perhaps:
Abbr.
29 Congressional
output
30 High point
32 Many have round
bodies and
narrow necks
33 Oval Office’s
Resolute ___
34
35
37
38
39
40
41
44
45
47
48
49
52
53
55
58
59
61
A13
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2021 Mars Wears an Apron
It’s All Greek to Me by Chris Gross & Mark McClain
ACROSS
1 Venus de Milo’s
lack
5 Borrowers’
obligations
10 Uncoordinated
people
14 Word with a
double meaning?
15 Put forth
16 Condo, e.g.
17 Oscar winner
Paquin
18 Cabinet
department
concerned with
unpaid overtime
19 Bean curd
20 The “Terminator”
remake featuring
Achilles won a
Saturn Award for
best ...
23 “___ be my
pleasure!”
24 Oklahoma’s
second-largest
city
25 Bic offerings
26 Formerly known
as
27 Spot for some me
time
28 Microwave
31 Wheat protein
33 Trickery
East Oregonian
What happened at home used to set us up for success
in the field. That was before the home became the
field. Many now must task the domestic environment
with double-duty, which the current cosmic mood
supports. Busting into the realm of domesticity, Mars
trades the armor for an apron and whips the home
base into shape.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You don’t set out to be
original, but you’re working with something other than
what was available in the example. Using different
ingredients and techniques yields unique results.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You could dismantle a
thorny challenge by untangling one vine at a time,
or you could do it like the goats and gardeners, not
bothering to pick anything apart. Whether your chew
it down or cut it up, you’ll make quick work of this.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). They say, “Work smarter,
not harder,” though we can only work to the level of
intelligence we have. It’s not about working smarter;
it’s about being smarter. Take time off of work to read,
get other experiences and develop skills.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). It will be better to err on
the side of assertiveness. If you don’t get the response
you hoped for, at least you’ll feel good about speaking
the truth and giving everyone a chance to know and
participate in your reality.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). People run, but really there’s
no way to avoid it. Pain is as entwined with existence
as is breathing. Accepting this inevitability makes
pain-free times, such as you’ll have today, all the
sweeter. You’ll live on wings of exuberance.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The thing about blame
is that it’s only one of many ways to package an
outcome, and today it’s an entirely unnecessary
one at that. Forget about blame. There is only what
happened, and various ways for it to not happen
again.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You are not sure what
you want from someone, but you’re pretty sure it’s
not what you’re getting today. This is worth thinking
over. Give it a brainstorm today. What is your fantasy
outcome?
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Can there be peace
without understanding? Of course! Sometimes
peace is accepting what is, whether or not you get
it. Consider giving up the need to process every bit of
information, at least right now.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). There are many
ineffective ways to handle fear, which include ignoring
it, running from it, pretending to be cool about it or
letting it stop you. The proper way is to accept fear so
you can harness it and make it work for you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It’s like your heart is
a searchlight, scanning for the heart that reflects back
a kindred glow. You’ll illuminate other things along the
way, though it’s best to keep moving until you alight
on what you were originally looking for.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It’s amazing what you
can solve when you put your mind to it. Don’t even
think about backing down from the wildly divergent
problems because they will be the stage from which
you shine brightest.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Those who believe that
the universe speaks in mocking laughter may be
selling themselves short with such cynicism. As for
you, life seems to be, at this time, respecting many
of your plans.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 23). Though you don’t feel
like you’re missing anything big, the exciting things
that land in your world this year will inspire you to
wonder later what you ever did before. A relationship
will be sweet music, and then the song gets further
orchestrated by an entire group playing along. You’ll
sculpt a new professional scenario in 2022. Leo and
Cancer adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 39, 20, 1,
4 and 8.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2021 Uncomfortable Cosmic Comforts
Relative of a B&B
Mon. follower
More sleepy
Farm layer?
“Home ___”
(classic
Christmas
comedy)
Beale Street’s
locale
Guacamole need
“Yada, yada,
yada”: Abbr.
Much of North
Africa
Matchbox
plaything
Longtime Chevy
named for an
antelope
Minneapolis and
Saint Paul
Parts of sliding
puzzles
Where Van Gogh
painted “The
Night Cafe”
Open-mouthed
Firefighter’s need
Has a mortgage,
say
Pack ___
(hoarder)
Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable? It’s
a good sign. What comes out of the meeting with
Mercury and Uranus is this message for the lifelong
learners: To be committed to growth is to agree to
certain levels of discomfort. Constantly improving
means constantly stretching to deliver something
outside of one’s area of expertise.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Because you
feel competent in your ability, you will perform
well regardless of what else is going on – the
circumstances in the room, the condition of your
tools, even trepidation and nerves will only enhance
your show.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You are loved and prized.
While you soak in the love, being prized comes with
all manner of implications that feel strange and wrong
to you. Shun with impunity. No one owns you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’re torn about whether
to invest in a new tool. Definitely, using something
different will amplify your capacities. Don’t rule out
that which you make yourself. Tools of your very own
will open up fresh avenues of exploration.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Try not to get hung up
on having a final, polished result because your time
is better spent solving a number of problems, which
you’ll never get to if you try to make any of them
perfect.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll end up throwing
something you thought you knew out the window. This
is, ultimately, where the idea belongs – dissipated by
the open air. You’re onto more relevant things.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). If you keep the same
rules, you’ll get the same shaped result. You’re going
for something else. Your process is evolving. Take
away one of your rules to let it expand unimpeded by
previous limits.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Fear is as normal a part of
the human experiences as is having thumbs. You may
eliminate emotional neediness and still be fearful.
Just don’t let that fear define you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Many say they value
humor, but you don’t have to say such things. Your
entire point of view says it for you. Someone finds this
extremely attractive, and you’ll know what it feels like
to have a fan.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Do you have to
look beyond the myth to find the love or are you in
love with the myth? To some degree, both of these
principles can be true at the same time in the same
relationship. It’s worth pondering with an open heart.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Mindfulness gets
plenty of play in your world lately – so much so that
one might forget about the utter joys of the opposite
state. Mindlessness certainly has its merits, especially
in the sunshine of spring!
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). As you make your way
through the labyrinth, don’t worry too much about
getting it right. Deep down, you know that this thing is
just made of shrubs, and it’s scalable, should you get
tired of the maze.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). This problem you see is
like a wave that rises high and breaks on your shore
and then reassimilates with the ocean of life like it
was never anything other than that, which it wasn’t.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 24). As accomplished
as you are, you still feel raw and unrefined in many
regards, and you can be sure that it’s this scrappy
spirit that attracts scenarios that allow you to shine.
You’ll earn the respect of students and the patronage
of dream customers. In 2022, your team wins and
your favorite investment pays off. Virgo and Capricorn
adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 12, 30, 4 & 15.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS