PUZZLES
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Pick This Puzzle Apart! by Sebastian L. Iger
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Olympic blade
5 Scary animals
11 One may lift
5,000 times its
weight
14 Metal whose
symbol is Au,
and what can
be mined in
62-Across
15 Second-cheapest
Monopoly avenue
16 Spy org.
17 Squirt juice into
one’s eye, as a
grapefruit
19 Old film channel
20 Olympic item with
a blade
21 + or - particle
22 Mike and ___
23 Toy vehicle with
an antenna,
informally
27 Roof overhangs
29 Jiffy
32 Perfume
containers
33 Part of a karate
uniform
34 In the style of
35 “___ be over
soon”
36 Wall support
38 Tables at a
meeting, say?
43 Adversaries
44 A deer might
cross one
45 Additionally
46 “Law & Order:
SVU” co-star
48 Type of dish in a
lab
49 Currency at a
pachinko parlor
50 Grinding tooth
52 Extremely pale
53 High school stat
54 Rent-to-___
56 Sparkle
61 Fitting
62 Condiment for
an American
Chinese chicken
dish
66 Moved past
Zoom dates
67 Fiddle (with)
68 Rocks that
17-, 38- and
62-Across
represent, based
on their outer
letters
69 Before, to a poet
70 City-state that
battled Athens
71 Pepsi Mango,
e.g.
DOWN
1 They may be
boosted or
bruised
2 Pulled ___
sandwich
3 “Luther” actor
Idris
4 Change, as
crossword clues
5 U.K. TV network
6 ___ de parfum
7 Completely
8 Flight you can
take for free?
9 Jackson 5
member
10 Part of a play
11 Full-time soldier’s
status
12 Metal whose
symbol is Ni,
and what can
be mined in
38-Across
13 Least feral
18 Word after
“secret” or “self”
24 Refers to
25 Baby cow
26 Attracts
28 Be next to
29 ___ Paulo
30 Assistant to
Santa
31 Foamy Italian
drink
36 Trap
37 Old news?
39 Greek I
40 IRA variety
41 Eggs on a sushi
roll
42 Long, long time
46 “Count me in!”
47 Metal whose
symbol is Cu,
and what can
be mined in
17-Across
48 Country with a
famous canal
51 Parts of teeth or
hairs
55 Cover with foil
57 Thailand neighbor
58 French currency
59 Scored 100% on
60 Southwestern
landform
63 “Fresh Air”
network
64 Understand
65 End of an ___
Produce Containers by Jennifer Marra & Brian Gubin
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Hot chocolate
drink?
6 Breakfast dish
with chopped
meat
10 Furious
13 Softball misplay
14 Manuscript sheet
15 Letters in some
church names
16 *Alternative to
a stud (notice
letters 4 to 7 in
this answer)
18 Big Apple initials
19 ___ with a kiss
20 Lead-in to “girl!”
21 Watercolors and
such
23 *German
women’s tennis
great (5 to 7)
27 Bob or bun
30 New ___,
Louisiana
31 Sleep concern
32 Human rights
lawyer Clooney
33 *”Creature” that
makes many
children laugh (5
to 9)
39 Capital west of
Stockholm
40 Where Christmas
lights are hung
42 Some
instrumental
music
compositions
46 Letter flourishes
47 *Occasional
residence (4 to 7)
50 Former WNBA
coach Dunn
51 Beers brewed
using warm
fermentation
52 Delay
55 Purge (of)
56 Like many
strudels, or the
starred answers?
61 Wile E. Coyote’s
explosive
62 Shouldered
63 Actor Keach
64 In the past
65 Wait in neutral
66 Lake vessel
DOWN
1 “I’m indifferent”
2 Top Olympic
prize, in Spain
3 Crunchy Italian
appetizer
4 Desire
5 Word after “Bay”
or “gray”
6 Massive crowd
7 Comedian Wong
8 Avarice, for one
9 Monopolize
10 Chanted phrase
11 “The Joy Luck
Club” author
12 They won’t keep
you up at night
14 Worry
17 Plus
20 Number that only
goes up
21 “Eureka!”
22 Engrossed
24 “I wanna be
there!” mentality,
briefly
25 Name hidden in
“out of range”
26 “Maybe later”
28 Camcorder
button
29 “Fifty Shades
of Grey” star
Johnson
32 Latin for “I love”
34 Aspiring atty.’s
exam
35 “What ___ is
new?”
36 Roadwork goop
37 Scheme that
makes a villain
say “Mwahaha!”
38 APR-reducing
loan
41 ID often assigned
around birth
42 Leonidas I led its
army
43 Lubricating
44 Must
45 Billboards,
essentially
46 “Treat Yo’ ___”
(“Parks and
Recreation”
catchphrase)
48 Cologne’s
waterway
49 Mechanical
learning
53 ___ jockey
54 Beauty supply
chain
56 Org. concerned
with cybercrime
57 Reel’s partner
58 Surfing
destination?
59 Earth-friendly
prefix
60 Turn blue, in a
way
East Oregonian
A13
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2021 Auspicious Air Trine
People don’t usually regret the initiatives they took.
It’s the initiative they didn’t act on that can really burn
in retrospect. But what about the initiatives we don’t
even see? Venus consults with Saturn today, inviting
such auspicious inquiry as: What opportunities am I
not seeing? Or, better yet, what opportunities am I not
creating?
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You can’t imagine your
way into new circumstances, but you also can’t make
it happen without imagination. Dream, act, dream
more, and then act more. The cycle feeds on itself.
Before you know it, you’re somewhere else.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’re caring and have
warmth for all around you. When you get tired, it’s
easy to forget your No.1 purpose, which is to love
and be loved, but some sweetness you’ve planted will
grow to remind you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). With communication
as your abiding forte, you’re in tune with how much
detail people want from a story or explanation – far
less than most people think. Your day will clip along,
peppered with efficient interactions.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Every world has unique
etiquette and a requisite learning curve. Rules get
breeched. Take this as your cue to offer or seek the
understanding to smooth it over.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You are currently linked to
your work in such a way that you couldn’t untie it from
who you are, if, indeed, you even wanted to. The way
you present yourself is part of the package.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The question of whether
or not you should address something is the first
consideration. Many problems can be solved by
neither recognizing their problematic status nor
claiming them as your own.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Should you show up
in person? These days, matters of attendance are
complicated. If you don’t want to go, then you have
the perfect excuse not to. Figure out another way to
show your support though. Opportunities hang in the
balance.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Lofty goals are good for
morale. High stakes and a deadline help, too. People
get along better when they are building something
that requires cooperation.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Sometimes, people
are oblivious because they lack the courage it takes
to notice what needs fixing and do something about it.
You’re brave in this regard. Once you see what’s right,
you have to act.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Before virtual
reality and meditation apps existed, Carl Jung had
the counterintuitive statement, “Who looks outside
dreams; who looks inside awakes.” You’ll have a
moment of living the statement.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You generally have
a stock of polite options on the ready for the usual
situations. It’s when someone insists on your real
opinion, as they will today, that you could be thrown
for a loop. Levity and brevity are the magic pairing.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Since you always feel
more comfortable when you know the names and
main details of the people you deal with, it’s worth
briefing yourself before the interaction. The time you
take to bone up on social niceties will be well-spent.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 19). You don’t realize what
a weight you carried until the beautiful lightening that
occurs when you let it go. You’ll float! Your liberation
comes in two significant points of the year. One
burden drops as you’re working on relationships. This
allows love to flow more freely. Another lift happens
when a security need becomes irrelevant. Aries and
Virgo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 10, 15,
2 and 40.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2021 Early Gift of the Gemini Sun
Social conventions as they are, many will ask
questions they don’t necessarily want to know the
answers to. The sun crosses into Gemini with a
burning curiosity. This makes obvious the hollowness
of rootless query and makes those whirring minds,
rich in appetite, stand out from the rest. Curiosity is
an energetic vacuum that pulls life inside.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Here comes the
reshuffling of your deck of priorities, a process outside
of your control, followed by the giddy anticipation as
the cards are being dealt. What will you get? It matters
but not as much as how you play what you get.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Allowing yourself to
get distracted will drain your precious energy unless
those distractions are so quality they inspire you.
You’ll know immediately. Unless you get hit by a
“wow” factor, keep moving along.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You may not feel qualified
to assume the position you are being asked to fill, but
they think you have what it takes, and they’re right.
You’ll gain skills along the way. Just say yes.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). With people around to
show you how a thing is done, the plus is that you
can skip over a lot of potentially embarrassing trial
and error. The minus is that you won’t know what you
might have invented through failing on your own.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). How deftly you’ll navigate
the paradox represented in this day: Now is the only
moment. And yet, nothing good happens without
some degree of delayed gratification.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’re carrying more than
you know. It’s like your mind has pockets you haven’t
checked in a while. Go through, gather up the useless
and dated ideas, and then release them to the trash.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). A person need not infringe,
intrude or invade your space in any way in order to
strike a chord at the very heart of you. The strings ring
out with sympathetic resonance when you witness
the emotional tone you know so very well.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). With multitudes
clamoring for attention, the one who doesn’t seem
to want any becomes accidentally alluring. They will
wonder about your private life and inner world that is
so compelling that publicity is unwelcome.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Paying attention
to a problem doesn’t necessarily lead to its solution.
Instead, stay focused on what you want. As you
keep moving toward that pretty picture, life starts to
assemble it before your eyes.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You have a reputation
for being extremely capable – the kind of person who
appears in a crisis and fixes everything with brisk
elan. That said, don’t make it a habit to fix for the
same person repeatedly; teach instead.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The skill of
compartmentalization is a complement to so many
areas of life. Just be sure, every once in a while,
to remind yourself what’s folded and tucked away.
Today’s success depends on such a check-in.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your past experience
matters less than the way people are experiencing
you now. You will open doors with your social skills
and confident demeanor.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 20). This year’s mood in
one word: inspired. There’s a fire in you, lit by ideas
and people taking life in a dazzling direction. You give
that same fire to others, just by being in pursuit of
your passion. Your welcoming ways will start a new
wave of social fun. A group forms and this could even
develop into a team or movement. Cancer and Gemini
adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 4, 25, 3, 10 and 7.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS