PUZZLES
Thursday, June 3, 2021
Space Invaders by Abigail Doctor & Amanda Rafkin
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Pore-shrinking
solution
6 Donate
10 Squid’s defense
13 Dish with a
Denver variety
15 “Free Willy”
marine mammal
16 Pro’s opposite
17 Pro-womxn
works (see letters
7 to 10 in this
answer)
19 Enjoyed pastrami
20 ___ Attack! (game
with a card
launcher)
21 Spanish small
plates
22 Taylor-Joy of
“The Queen’s
Gambit”
23 Indian brides’ red
garments
24 Broke down
grammatically
26 Many include
seat numbers (4
to 9)
30 Food chain link,
maybe
31 Gouda, e.g.
32 Fried rice bit
33 Like all primes
except 2
36 ‘90s music
holders
37 Pup’s bark
40 Word before
“algebra” or
“thinking”
43 Forbidden act, to
a tot
44 Starts operating
secretly (4 to 6)
49 Stubbornly
demand
50 Handed (out)
51 “West Side Story”
gang
52 Prominent part of
a pig
53 ___ Lanka
56 Mathematician
Lovelace
57 Levies that
Nevada and
Alaska lack (3 to
7)
60 Rebellion leader
Turner
61 Chai and oolong
62 Do volunteer Lab
work?
63 Pupil’s place
64 Not all
65 Fresh haircut
DOWN
1 Meat substitute
2 It’s a sign
3 Lost fish of film
4 Roth of horror
5 Airbnb offering
6 “You busy?”
7 401(k)
alternatives
8 Device used to
tape “The Golden
Girls,” once
9 ___ crow (lose
face)
10 “That’s a bad
hiding spot!”
11 “Hold your
horses”
12 Massages
14 Sparkly crown
18 Rotate like a
dreidel
22 Torah holders
23 Black Widow, for
one
24 Threw a creamy
dessert at
25 Misses nothing
on
26 Her or Grindr
27 Rage
28 Home work?
29 Active ingredient
in edibles, briefly
33 Burden
34 Ding on a car
35 Either parent in
certain families
38 Cozy stopover
39 Escape vehicle in
sci-fi
41 Egyptian goddess
of fertility
42 Rudolph’s claim
to fame
43 Agree silently
44 Military role for
which Demi
Moore shaved
her head
45 “Eventually”
46 Area on a Clue
board
47 Used Elmer’s
48 Gymnastics icon
Mary Lou
52 Swindler’s
scheme
53 Austin festival,
informally
54 Joy of MSNBC
55 :, in an analogy
57 “___ a long story”
58 Prefix with “natal”
59 What is “just a
number”
Two Times Two by Jessica Zetzman
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Things that may
be jam-packed?
[#UniversalXwordPride]
5 Secret supply
10 Gem prized in
China
14 Toddler’s reaction
to an oopsie
15 Try, as beer
16 Ready for
customers
17 Values in a set
18 Place to
exchange vows
19 Provide
temporarily
20 *”Help me, ___.
You’re my only
hope.” (Leia)
23 Iguana, for
instance
24 “I’ve got this”
28 Decompose
31 D.C. MLB player
32 Pop star known
for her wigs
34 Towing org.
35 Lacking skill
37 *Gradually
39 Boring
40 You could have
many in the “fire”
42 “Legally Blonde”
protagonist
Woods
43
45
46
47
48
50
51
53
56
61
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
*Korean rice bowl
Guide
___ pinch
Parisian pal
Airport safety org.
Alcohol-free
Sara’s partner in
indie pop
Largest hot
desert
*What’s
celebrated on
September 23
to prevent an
identity’s erasure,
or a hint to the
pair of prefixes
in each starred
answer
Just
Active starter?
Operatic solo
Employs
Impulse
transmitter
Perseverance
rover’s location
Suitcase labels
Some native
Nebraskans
Largest digits in
binary
DOWN
1 Japanese martial
art
2 “Moby-Dick”
captain
3 Indianflatbread
4 Cardigan collar
style
5 Poet’s subsection
6 Mansplain, e.g.
7 Fall bloomer
8 Doubles (for)
9 Any frontline
worker
10 Angelina of “Gia”
11 Monkey’s relative
12 Bear home
13 One might be
split or bitter
21 “___ that
somethin’?”
22 Spill the beans
25 Saved for a future
meeting
26 Junk pamphlet
27 Place to grab a
bite
28 Frog sound
29 Browsing memes,
say
30 Steeped pouch
33 Every dog has
___ day
36 Letter before chi
37 Conk on the
noggin
38 “And” or “not”
follower
40 Tech company
nicknamed Big
Blue
41 Chocolaty morsel
at the movies
44 Fingernail
treatment, for
short
45 Garment often
worn with a choli
48 Steal
49 Buffalo hockey
team
52 Vast void
54 Commercial
prefix for “Turf”
55 “Remember the
___!”
57 Glassful in Roma
58 Persia, today
59 Grow bored (of)
60 “___ queen!”
61 Not in the closet
62 Intel-gathering
grp.
63 Part of a journey
East Oregonian
A13
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2021 Cosmic Color Wheel
Color is a manifestation of light, a reflection that could
even be called a rejection, as the thing reflected back
is the color that the thing is not. At a scientific level,
color is an indicator of its opposite. Mars and Pluto
move into an opposition that throws emotional colors
our way. Look for the sadness in reaching out, the
happiness in letting go.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You appreciate the
people who tune into you without making you work
for it. You don’t have to raise your voice to be heard.
It is with soft insistence that you make your point or
get your way.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll take notice of
those who seem to be misreading reality. They likely
have a personal motive for doing so, but who doesn’t?
That’s the thing about reality – everyone gets to have
one.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). As infinite as your soul
may be, you’ve plenty of internal resources that are
as exhaustible as any external resource. Come from a
soulful place and avoid depletion.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Often, from inside a
dream, you don’t realize that you’re dreaming until
you start coming out of the thing. At that point, you
can see the available option of waking up. Today
brings a similar dynamic.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Maybe you didn’t plan it just
right, or maybe you left just the opening that destiny
needed to stick a hand in. So waste no time in worry.
Use what you have then back off and accept the
assist.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The marketplace will take
whatever money you have to throw at it. If you want
to fix the problem for $10, you can. If you want to fix it
for $10,000, you can. Get informed.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Stories don’t last if they
are not told and retold. So don’t worry about whether
you said it before, especially if it’s part of your family
heritage. Say it again. You learn and share something
a little different every time.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You will be remarkably
versatile in your approach to love. You can be
intellectual about it, imaginative, intuitive or
kinesthetic, reading all you need to know in the
language of gestures and movements.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You don’t have to
have the same taste as someone to appreciate your
connection. You’ll experience things together, each
with a takeaway that is different from and enhanced
by the other.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You don’t think about
it much, nor do you walk around feeling any different
from anyone else. And yet, your unique past has made
you stronger. You continue to draw strength and ideas
from what you learned back there.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It could be considered
a stretch to put today’s task in the category of “fun,”
but it’s the sort of job that is easier to do than avoid.
Also, being the one who handles things without
hesitation or complaint makes you awesome.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You prefer to surround
yourself with items that have use and meaning to you;
otherwise, it’s more to organize with very little reward
for doing so. What story do your material possessions
tell about you?
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 4). You make unorthodox
choices with results so interesting you’ll talk and
teach on the subject of your own unconventionality.
But now, it’s about figuring out how things fit together
as well as finding and cherishing the people who help
you make it work. Success springs from your light,
flexible and experimental approach. Libra and Leo
adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 40, 6, 13 and
22.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 2021 Schooled by Cosmic Opposition
The thing that many people like about school is the
quantifiable challenge of well-defined assignments in
which the route to an excellent score is made quite
clear. Life seldom provides such obvious guidelines,
but it will today. Mars and Pluto pull apart to present
a timeframe while Mercury and Neptune lay out the
rubric.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Media encourages all to
privately rate, approve or disapprove of what we see.
It’s an unattractive practice that takes us out of our
own lives to deal in the business of others. It’s far
more charismatic to tend to your own realm.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). It’s better to get into a
small chunk of a project than bite into one you won’t
be able to finish in a day. Also, in light of the Mercury
situation, you’re wise to leave wide large margins for
human error.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). What matters to you may
not be important to the others... yet. While you wait
for things to come around, focus on what the group is
currently about, and find your place in that.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Excellent taste is not
always the easiest thing to have. The rest of the world
so rarely complies. Today will be the exception. You’ll
have much to feast your senses on.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Clean up and you’ll get back
what you thought you’d lost and what you’d totally
forgotten about as well. Other found items will prevent
you from unnecessary future purchases.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). There is this hum, too low
to be audible, and yet you sense it in the background.
It’s what the composer calls a “pad” that glues the
other tones together, lending reassurances and a soft
place to land.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). True power is not given;
it is earned. And because truly powerful people have
earned their status, they have spent time at every
level and can access any as though with a dial,
turning their current up or down to suit the situation.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You will invite people to
support you, but this is not an open invitation. To ask
everyone would be taking away from those who really
need what you do. Small groups will be lucky for you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Use your feelings.
Push your senses into a situation and you’ll notice
they can travel further into a sense of knowing than
your thoughts and questions can get you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Your mind is calm,
your heart full. This allows for your inner grace, almost
supernatural in its depth, to show itself in the kindest
consideration for the feelings and reactions of others.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Leaving things as they
are isn’t so easy. To alter the course of things, all you
have to do is be there. But this principle works in your
favor, too. All you have to do to make a difference is
show up.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You really don’t know
what criteria another person is using to make a
decision, and no light on the matter will come through
what the person says either, as people don’t even
know themselves why they do the things they do.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 5). The Mars and Pluto
opposition on your solar return signifies enormous
good fortune to come from embracing the polarities
inside you. You will progress in strength, and also in
weakness. Knowledge will be balanced by humility,
power by mercy. Your wishes, including the goodness
you want for others, will come quickly to hand. Cancer
and Capricorn adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 7,
32, 9, 19 and 5.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS