PUZZLES
Thursday, May 6, 2021
Bighearted by Kyle Dolan
38 Fight about the
dishes, perhaps
42 Catlike
44 Black-and-white
bear
45 It connects the
Atlantic and
Pacific (middle 3
letters)
49 Word before
“bod” or “joke”
50 Lagasse of New
Orleans cuisine
51 Adjust, as a radio
53 Dashboard
device: Abbr.
54 Drag behind
56 MeatZZa
company
59 Nothing ___ than
perfect
61 Complain loudly
(middle 4 letters)
63 Toledo’s lake
64 They’re just not
good
65 Titillating
66 “Oh, man!”
67 Coped (with)
68 Word in a shoppe
name
DOWN
1 Italian city with a
famous tower
2 Japanese wheat
noodles
3 Know-it-all?
4 Suspect’s story
5 Wasn’t straight
with
6 Brit’s “Goodness
me!”
7 Vehicle on a ferry
8 Comedian
McKinnon
9 Work the room
10 With 20-Across,
“It’s a well-known
fact!”
11 Utters impulsively
12 Wager over lager,
say
13 It’s often formal
at a wedding
18 Eccentric
22 Wager for lager,
maybe?
26 ___ Ana
27 Bit of gel
28 Game with Wild
cards
30 In a frenzy
31 JennAir
alternative
32 Occupied
34 Until now
FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2021 Venus and Jupiter Call for Acceptance
37 Weaved downhill
on skis
39 Refusing to
accept something
40 Vaccine-
approving org.
41 Grapefruit diet,
e.g.
43 Release
44 Fruits that flavor
some Japanese
liqueurs
45 Certain artificial
limb
46 Watt per volt
47 Loch monster,
familiarly
48 “Raise your
glasses ...”
52 Dragster fuel,
briefly
55 Slight curl in long
hair
56 Small hollow
57 Readable with a
laser
58 Scottish isle
where a terrier
originated
60 Utters, informally
62 Seoul-based Soul
maker
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
42 Cookie with a
green filling
44 Poster fasteners
46 Dromedary camel
feature
47 Gawk
49 Unchangeable
53 Froyo chain
56 Adjective for Al
Yankovic
57 Tempo
59 Pie ___ mode
60 Galena and
magnetite
61 Fixer-upper?
64 Ridiculously
funny person
65 Composer Satie
66 “To clarify ...”
67 Refuse to admit
68 Chicks’ mothers
69 Items on a to-do
list
DOWN
1 Not so hot?
2 Wear away
3 Create a ruckus
4 AOL alternative
5 Meyers of late
night
6 Greeting that’s
Arabic for
“peace”
7 Frighten
8 Elephant weight
unit
9 Sound after a
mouse sighting
10 Dunk into liquid
11 “You ___ have
fooled me!”
12 Cosmetician
Lauder
13 Gloss
18 Pleads
22 Purplish ink color
24 Prof.’s degree,
usually
26 French for “state”
27 Stop sleeping
29 Amaze
31 Patriotic uncle
32 Chinese life force
33 Sign of summer?
34 Crunchy, puffed
foods
35 Type
36 Golf champion
Ernie
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50
51
52
54
55
58
61
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63
As tensions line up between Venus and Jupiter,
thoughtful work is unlikely to flow with a regularity
that can be counted on. Inspiration rushes then halts;
ideas come in bursts and fits. Abundant productivity is
available for those who treat creativity like weather,
responding to its seasons and moods beyond our
command.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). When you’re talking
to someone you’re trying to understand where they
are coming from. You can picture their life outside
the interaction with greater accuracy because of the
excellent questions you ask.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You like to be the one
giving, but if you don’t let others help you, you deprive
them of something meaningful. Part of generosity is
being a gracious receiver of what people contribute
to you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You don’t have to
be overly sensitive to every little internal distress
signal or constantly let yourself off the hook. But
do acknowledge when the hard work hurts. That
acknowledgment is enough to avoid burnout.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). The rules are in place for
a reason, but it’s not always a good one. Today, you
just may find that it’s not a very solid or enforceable
one either. If someone is going to make an exception,
it will be for exceptional you.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Emotional investment is like
any other investment – a risk. One thing you can count
on is that, sooner or later, everyone gets hurt in love.
If there’s no hurt, it’s not love. So the question is, who
are you willing to hurt for?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). What you like will agree
with you, make you look good, and inspire lots more of
the good stuff. Who you love will love you back. What
you do will matter. It’s an all-around fantastic day.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Projects have a beginning,
middle and an end, though that is not the best order
of approach. Begin with the end in mind. If you don’t
have an end in mind yet, assist someone who does
and you’ll learn a lot.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Be extremely careful
which collective you align with. Groups can be
incredibly destructive and stupid or, under the right
circumstances, highly intelligent and even brighter as
an entity than the most intelligent person within the
group.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Trying to connect
with an emotionally distant person is like grasping the
wind – futile. The wind touches you; you do not touch
it. But if you position yourself well, you can use its
power to do any number of things.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). An old joke: Time flies
like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. So make like
a fruit fly and get into the sweetness of the day. It’s
going to take a little work to get past the peel and a
little humor to get past this horoscope.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Be like the honeybee.
Send out scouts in every direction so that later you can
concentrate all your efforts on only the direction where
the flowers are open and inviting.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Even though you
are affiliated with a group, you will act freely and
independently, cooperating as it suits you and
compromising when you deem it beneficial. The
approach produces coordinated results everyone will
be proud of.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 7). In a way, following
your bliss is the most responsible thing you can do.
For one thing, it pays. Lucky financial moves will be
the result of a stellar perspective, which comes from
delving deeply into your delights. You’ll work with
your emotions to create circumstances that ultimately
benefit many, a skill that rubs off on others. Virgo and
Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 22, 18,
9 and 45.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
Tennis Open by Catherine Cetta
ACROSS
1 School year
divisions
6 Fill with food
10 Frosts, as a cake
14 Use one end of a
pencil
15 Soothing
succulent
16 ___ pit (slam-
dancing area)
17 Like a blunt
refusal
19 Button you may
click before a
Zoom lecture
20 SSNs, e.g.
21 Pick up sound
waves
22 Free-for-all
23 Word before
“freeze” or “fry”
25 One who catches
poachers
28 Abyss
30 Makes “it”
31 Loads (of)
33 Body of water
between
Cleveland and
Detroit
37 Sushi tuna
38 “Time for a short
break!”
41 Not well
A13
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Stage after larva
5 Measures in an
old Tootsie Pop
ad
10 “The Winner
Takes It All” band
14 Bedroom poster
figure, say
15 Oscar of “The
Last Jedi”
16 Wood strip
17 What you’re
standing on
(see the middle
4 letters in this
answer)
19 Writer Vonnegut
20 See 10-Down
21 Defib expert
23 Softball stat
24 Heat shield?
25 Shellfish
sometimes
swallowed whole
27 Grammy winner
___ Lipa
29 Red sauce
ingredient (middle
3 letters)
33 Unable to sit still
35 Prime Video’s
company
36 ___-chic
37 Animal with a
forked tongue
East Oregonian
SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2021 Venus & Jupiter Examine the Gamemasters
Octopus parts
Best-___ secret
In need of a drink
Sunflower oil,
perhaps?
Chips and
pretzels
It’s part of IT,
informally
Zorro’s weapon
Like a haunted
house
Attach, as with
string
Choose to
participate
Gloomy
Sailors’ tales
Send forth
“I’ve seen better”
“You really ___
too much!”
Dr.’s org.
Remember when you felt that you didn’t have a
choice, and then later looked back to see many
potential options you didn’t initially notice? Among
other themes, the tension between Venus and Jupiter
cautions against accepting the choices others lay out
for us as though they were the only ones. The game-
creator usually has the advantage.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). It won’t take you long to
subtly establish your influence. If you were to exert
your influence more obviously, you would be met with
a resistance that would take forever to overcome.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). When you were younger
you heard that life isn’t fair, though many of your
experiences of late have shown evidence to the
contrary. For instance, today’s bit of poetic justice is
nothing short of delicious.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). A few people will make
an initial decision and many others will uncritically
accept it. You, however, will push pause and do
your own evaluation. You can’t personally examine
everything, but this is within your realm.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). The more they need you,
the better you perform. You don’t worry or think about
it; you just do it. Something about people depending
on you makes it easier, not harder.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your wisdom shines through
your choice of what to get involved with and when.
Trust those initial prescient instincts, even when
(especially when!) you can’t reason them out.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You don’t like to tell the
others what to do. You prefer to do it yourself, and
you’ll make it look so cool in the process that you
attract helpers, fans and partners of all kinds.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You know how to work
on things sequentially and get results one at a time.
But the point of arrival is when everything happens
at once. This will occur when it’s supposed to. Keep
doing what you’re doing.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). According to your innate
sense of fairness (shared by all around you today),
rewards will correlate to efforts and accomplishments
– as it should be. Since it isn’t always so, you greatly
appreciate the justice served today.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). No one likes to
have to work hard to understand something they are
not that interested in to begin with. But today, there’s
a complexity at hand that needs to be dealt with and
you’re ready to do what it takes.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Even though most
of the jobs your team will do are not so difficult, the
possibilities will broaden in the future. So you’ll work
to expand the outer edges of your own capabilities
and inspire those around you to do the same.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Knowing that someone
will only remember two or three things you talk about,
you pick the most important topics and find an artful
and memorable way to put those ideas across.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ll take your own
desire into account, though, ultimately, much of what
you do with your day will depend on what the people
around you need and want. Doing things together will
bring the most joy.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 8). There’s a liberation
taking place. A year from now, you’ll look back and
celebrate this moment when you cease to needlessly
judge yourself. You’ll opt for new ways of pulling your
habits into line. You’ll enjoy what you create because
you dared to go in a new direction. Work leads to
new interests; new interests pay you. Capricorn and
Aquarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 20, 1,
33 and 18.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS