A12
PUZZLES
East Oregonian
Continuous Improvement by Emily Carroll
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Mixer at a bar
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few weeks of
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identifying
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5 Bread served
with rogan josh
9 Bit of energy
14 Warbling bird
15 https://pflag.org
and https://www.
out.com
16 Stimulant
17 The 411
18 Kansas ___,
Missouri
19 Kids around
20 Wholesome
entertainment
23 Remington
played by Pierce
Brosnan
24 Urban travel
expense
28 Rises high
31 Levy that led to
a 1773 Boston
“party”
32 More, in Mallorca
35 1963 war film
known for its
motorcycle jump
scene, with “The”
37 Smokeless
smoke
39 Org. concerned
with traps and
hazards
40 Stonestreet of
“Modern Family”
41 No mere squirt
gun
46 Teens’ may be
fake
47 Discordant, as
music
48 Man of La
Mancha
50 Summoned
52 Biggest state
56 Comforting
words, and a
theme hint
59 “Get Out”
director Jordan
62 Score for Abby
Wambach
63 Bust a hump
64 Thirsty, in a sense
65 Green Gables girl
66 Oral history
67 Traverse
68 Tops of cans
69 Special sparkle
DOWN
1 Hearty gulps
2 Second-guessing
phrase
3 “Robinson
Crusoe” author
4 Battery ends
5 Word before
“family” or
“power”
6 Grammy winner
India.___
7 Utah ski resort
8 Its bass singer
was Lance Bass
9 Classic movie
theater candies
10 Like some melts
11 Package delivery
co.
12 “___ It Go” (Idina
Menzel song)
13 Ambulance
destinations, for
short
21 Birkenstock shoe
22 Inevitable
outcome
25 Gaming pioneer
26 Swift
27 Corp. suits
29 Seized auto
30 Long stories
32 Flat-topped
landforms
33 Less than 90
degrees
34 Nurse, like a drink
36 ___ it easy
38 Non-Jewish
people
42 They raise the
roof
43 Laborious task
44 Turns on, as
notifications
45 Xena, for Lucy
Lawless
49 Baby’s plaything
51 Queenly
53 Bar seat
54 Knightley of
“Bend It Like
Beckham”
55 “Over the
Rainbow”
composer Harold
57 “Home” author
Morrison
58 Hourglass filler
59 Muscle worked
on chest day,
briefly
60 Spot for a stud
61 Self-importance
Bean Dip by Sara Cantor
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Protrude, with
“out”
4 Broad neckwear
9 “C’est la vie”
13 Greek H
14 Group that sings
hymns
15 Huge concert
venue
16 Court, knight-
style
17 Late March,
say (theme hint:
in this answer,
switch the last
word’s second
letter with the
one below it)
19 Poem such as
“Gilgamesh”
21 Queen or drone
22 Consumed
23 Phoebe Buffay’s
portrayer on
“Friends” (... first
word’s third letter
...)
26 Reacts strongly
to a sad movie
30 Kafka’s Gregor
31 What puts the
icing on the
cake?
33 Storefront info:
Abbr.
35
36
37
40
42
43
44
45
47
49
53
54
58
60
61
62
67
68
69
70
71
72
Hunk
Aries animal
Egg layer
Perplexed
First half of a
pronoun pair
Cheese
sharpener
Food with an al
pastor style
Best
Iowan
Dashes or sprints
Prefix with
“freeze”
Come up with
nothing (... last
word’s fourth
letter ...)
Word paired with
neither
A state of matter
Without repeating
Chinese regime
known for its
porcelain vases
(... first word’s
second letter ...)
Currently
Toned down
Verb that sounds
like a cow part
Flattering poem
Focusing
condition, briefly
Drinks in steins
73 ___ Talks
DOWN
1 Gems
2 Perfect place
3 Lao-tzu’s
philosophy
4 Asexual, for short
5 When doubled,
Japanese hot pot
6 Prepped, as an
apple
7 Fuel tanker
8 Sample
9 Put a halt to
10 Hawaiian garland
11 Author ___ M.
Martin
12 Droop
15 Fitting
18 Overlooked, as a
fault
20 “Cold, hard”
money
24 Activity that
requires chops?
25 Norwegian
capital
27 Plural possessive
pronoun
28 Uninspiring
29 “___ time next
week?”
32 Soak up
34 “Don’t get
soaked!”
35 ___-mo
37 “LMAO”
38 Susan who
played Belle on
Broadway
39 Its eye is in many
a witch’s brew
41 PC company
46 ___ Alto
48 Crowned, in
checkers
50 Is unable to
51 Make into a
cipher
52 Slantwise
55 Striped gem
56 Compost, e.g.
57 September flower
59 Drag queen
Vander Von ___
62 UFC combat
style
63 Birth control
option, for short
64 Indeterminate
degree
65 Short pencil
66 Century’s 100:
Abbr.
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2021 Venus Costume Change Throws Love Scene in Flux
Love is a creative endeavor. Some would argue it
is the creative endeavor. It follows that each choice
contributes to the art. This is well illustrated now as
Venus, the planet of love, changes suit. As it goes
with costume changes like this, it has the director
rethinking the entire scene, from script to lighting,
perhaps even casting.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re ready to like
things and will find much worthy of your admiration.
In fact, dozens of delights are in store for you, many of
them sneaky, emerging from unassuming packages
or surprising you from low-key moments.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Trials are often seen as
punishments or burdens, though confusingly so when
you consider how you emerge from them as the best
version of yourself. Your current trial should earn a
“teacher of the year” award.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You don’t always expect
a happy ending to the story, but you expect some kind
of ending. Your mind doesn’t like an open loop. In
fact, it finds irresolution so stressful that it will make
something up just to close the circle.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Your productivity will
depend on the extent to which you can focus on what
you want. This has changed a little, and you need to
refresh your vision. Add some details that will help
you stay locked on the vision.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Whatever comes automatically
to you has been developed over time to survive and
thrive in your circumstances. Your circumstances
have changed, and updates to the survival kit are in
order, none of which will come automatically.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). What people can’t keep
up with, they will ignore. You will need to get and
keep someone’s attention today, which is largely an
exercise in reading the feedback and sticking close to
the favorable responses.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There’s a vibe that comes
across when someone is trying to sell you on a
product, idea or course of action. It’s uncomfortable.
You prefer the attractiveness of the offer to do all the
selling. Irresistible dynamics are also effortless.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Reporting for duty
is more than a matter of attendance; it’s also an
act of obedience and an attitude of surrender. The
successful move will be to follow protocol, observe
hierarchy and respect power structures.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). There are people
you easily fall into a groove with and others you
must cross a minefield of misunderstandings to get
anywhere near. Make your life easy. Work strictly with
the former category.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The one who would
spend time parsing your words and deconstructing
your meaning is actually just finding a very annoying
way of signaling a need for acceptance. Provide the
love and the nitpicking will stop.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). While it is possible for
you to dance with intellectual enthusiasms without
organizing your life around them, it’s more fun to
succumb to the reorganization. Curiosities have the
potential to become obsessions.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The realizations come
one after another. You’re figuring out where you goals
align with the interests of others and where they
rub uncomfortably, cross, tangle or come up against
opposition
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 2). You’re not afraid of the
chaos of a new venture; in fact, that’s the source of
big fun. It is in this welcoming spirit that you embark
on what will become part of your legacy. You’ll mix
finances with friendship to excellent effect. A co-
creation will involve bonding, travel and publicity.
Your style of interacting with family evolves. Virgo and
Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 33,
26, 1 and 35.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2021 Saturn’s Suggestions to the Sun
The sun and Saturn form an angle auspicious for
brilliant conclusions and innovations. Saturn warns
(as is Saturn’s way) against the energy waste caused
by unjustified efforts. Justification comes by way of
the help brought to others. Furthermore, things are
only as beautiful as they are functional, as cool as
they are useful.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). There is so much going
beautifully right around you and yet you’ll still hear
complaints – a force of habit for some. They could
suffer in paradise. Either ignore them or invoke a
reality check to interrupt their pattern.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). It’s not what is said but
how it’s said that matters today. The tone will ring out,
recognizable to all, discernable to even those who
speak a different language. Emotion is universal.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It is a trope of long-
running sitcoms to keep it fresh by taking the action
to a different country, city or world for an episode or
two. Plan some equivalent scenery change for the
long-running relationship in your life.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). There are plenty of
reasons not to judge others, the most obvious being
that none is without fault. Beyond that, judgment is a
distraction and an energy drain. Focus exclusively on
the desire you are working toward.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The French proverb says:
Honey is sweet, but the bees sting. It might be added
that bees typically sting defensively. Since you’re not
planning to pose a disruptive or overt threat, today’s
honey will be worth the risk.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your creative mind will
spin on things that others overlook. You don’t expect
them to understand you, though it would be nice if
they could give you your alone time to focus on what
fascinates you. Request it.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). There are certain burdens
you feel you must carry alone, but talking them over
is a way to lighten your load without making anyone
else do the heavy lifting.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Reason and logic have
a place in your decision-making. Though, today, it
won’t be the helm. How do you know when thinking is
overthinking? Does it bring the situation into clarity or
make it far more complicated?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Everyone gets their
due. Maybe it will come as a relief to know that you
do not have to worry about the rewards, punishments,
debts and remuneration. Karma is an automatic
reconciliation.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You know how to
put on a professional front and can be the poster of
appropriateness. Though there are things you do and
ways that you show up that are too special to put a
price tag on.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You can’t gather
wisdom any more than you can gather the ability to run
like an Olympian or solve genius-level mathematical
equations. You can only use what you have, which will
be more than enough today.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). At first, you wanted a
thing out of vanity. It sounded cool. It seemed like
anyone who had it was cool. Now, you want the thing
for more profoundly personal reasons, which will
make all the difference.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 3). You thought you would
get to the goal by employing great discipline, though
it turns out that very little discipline is needed when
you lead with your design sense. You apply creativity
to alter your surroundings, change your agenda and
tweak your behaviors into new ones that reflect the
next version of you. Aries and Sagittarius adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 14, 5, 7, 44 and 28.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS