PUZZLES
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Changing Identity by Catherine Cetta
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Fence opening
5 Beet’s leafy
relative
10 Unreturnable
serve
13 Amazon assistant
15 Blender setting
16 Ewe’s mate
17 Words in a salad
description
19 “I don’t need to
know this,” in
3-Down
20 Has a meal at
home
21 Took the place of
23 Blog feed letters
24 Expected
26 Earth: Prefix
27 Went on a wild
goose chase, say
33 Tahoe and
Titicaca
36 Be too sweet
37 Baby’s syllable
38 Give off
39 Stood out
40 “___ my lips!”
41 Hairstyling stuff
42 Ninth mo.
43 In a way,
informally
44 What a student
who never goes
to class can
earn?
48 Lead-in to
“friendly”
49 Openly LGBTQ+
50 ___-mo
53 Lemon pie
topping
58 Large bin for
grain
60 Pitching stat
61 Not conforming
to male or female
stereotypes, and
a hint to the word
scrambled within
17-, 27- and
44-Across
63 Bro or sis
64 Olympic
swimmer’s unit
65 “May the ___ be
with you”
66 “___ All That”
(2021 film)
67 Atmosphere layer
68 Former Russian
ruler
DOWN
1 “Minecraft”
fanatic, perhaps
2 Second name?
3 “TTYL” and
“IMO,” for two
4 Past partners
5 EMT’s specialty
6 Shades
7 Pi*r-squared, for
a circle
8 Tenant’s payment
9 Tattooist’s
pattern
10 Copier at work?
11 G.I. garb
12 Middle Eastern
ruler
14 Nike competitor
18 Bearded
antelopes
22 Word before a
former surname
25 Impressed
deeply?
27 Moisten
28 Get to “I do”
without ado
29 “Please stay!”
30 A Cyclops has
only one
31 Milk source
32 Luke Skywalker’s
mentor he was
33 Toy brick brand
34 “Hallelujah!”
35 Core workout
goal
39 U-turn from NNW
40 Fish eggs
43 Trigger, as an
alarm
45 Here, in Paris
46 Label in a health
food aisle
47 German industrial
valley
50 Urges (on)
51 German camera
maker
52 Alphabetical ___
53 Fit together well
54 The “E” of
HOMES
55 “Aww, c’mon ...”
56 Golden rule word
57 Paradise in
Genesis
59 Backbone of a
novel?
62 Before, to a poet
Near Miss by Rafael Musa
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Champagne-
opening sounds
5 Impulsive
9 Pitfall
13 Country on
Hispaniola
15 Meet ___
(encounter in
“Love, Simon”)
16 Enormous
17 One eschewing
synthetic
pesticides (see
letters 7 to 10 in
this answer)
20 Command+Z, on
a Mac
21 Gamer who
might get pwned
22 “Leave it to me”
25 “Baby Cobra”
comedian Wong
27 Islamic law
31 2017 hit whose
title contains a
fashion brand (4
to 7)
34 “___ you hungry,
dear?”
35 Animated
aardvark on TV
36 Owned
38 Damaging gossip
39 Liquid-
confiscating org.
40 The Gay Nineties
and others
43 Take to court
44 Sound of
disapproval
46 Flow back
47 Vibes well with a
group
49 Modern party
notice
51 Go through a
purse, perhaps (2
to 5)
53 Sends elsewhere
55 Tourette’s
symptom
56 Jonathan Van
___ (nonbinary
grooming expert
on “Queer Eye”)
57 “La Vie en Rose”
singer Edith
59 Bill dispensers
61 “Almost,” or a
theme hint
68 Katz’s, for one
69 Take time off
70 Group of
candidates
71 Viewed
72 Yellowstone
grazers
73 Went 90 on I-90,
say
DOWN
1 Vietnamese
noodle soup
2 Canoe propeller
3 ___ Latin
4 Steadfast
5 Coke competitor
6 Leo’s birth mo.,
often
7 Funny Laurel
8 Give a ___
welcome
9 Shakespeare
nickname
10 Seek office
11 At least 30, for a
U.S. senator
12 For each
14 Stonewall ___
(site of a seminal
uprising in
LGBTQ+ history)
18 “That would
sound about
right”
19 Capital of Qatar
22 “So it seems”
23 Flowing
handwriting
24 Pretend
26 Occupy
28 “Fearless
(Taylor’s
Version),” e.g.
29 Utterly destroyed
30 Shows up to
32 Contraception
option: Abbr.
33 Wander (about)
37 In reality
41 Oil type at a
dispensary
42 Knight’s honorific
45 Intervenes
48 Throat parts
50 Most common
lake in
crosswords
52 16-Across
creatures
54 Buffalo NHL
player
58 Kerosene, for
many jets
60 Roast hosts,
briefly
61 LPs’ successors
62 California
representative
Barbara
63 Spanish cheer
64 Sound of
disapproval
65 Gender pay ___
66 Devoured
67 Rainbow’s top
color
East Oregonian
A15
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2021 New Moon Preparations
Inside every new moon, there’s an opportunity to start
fresh with a project, relationship or area of your life.
The Gemini influence on tomorrow’s prospects will
center around the social and intellectual. Who and
what you know will alter your destiny. Discover and
guide your curiosity to ready yourself for tomorrow’s
new moon and eclipse.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). One quest that’s worthy
of you is the quest to become masterful at reading
the room. Even the most familiar rooms have more to
offer once you tune into their particular frequency and
adjust your own accordingly.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The action won’t be
controlled. This scene has a force too strong for
one person to thwart or even steer, but it can be
influenced, nudged along in a way that will make a
difference.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ll use different words
and make updates to the way you present yourself
both in person and in the digital realm. Your fresh style
will bring social and professional opportunity.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Disappointment isn’t an
appointment worth keeping. The way to avoid it is to
set your expectations well. This takes both awareness
and research. Who are you dealing with? What
patterns exist already?
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Belief is the code that
programs the mind. Once a thing is believed, the
perceived world automatically organizes around that
belief, which becomes like sheet music that the world
plays its song to.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The cool lettering on an
inspiring picture wants to be the truth, but the truth
rarely presents in such a glamorous way. The truth
is more likely to be uncomfortably blurted out, its
grittiness taking nothing away from its power.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). People flock to the ocean,
pay more to live near it, travel great distances
to see it. Its enormity, ceaseless movement and
unfathomable danger make it mesmerizing. Romantic
love is mesmerizing for the same reasons.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It’s easier to be
philosophical about a thing when you’re the one in
control of the decisions around it. When decisions are
made by others that affect your world, it’s action, not
philosophy, that puts things right.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Whether or not you
land a certain job will depend partly on luck and other
circumstances, but keeping it or leveraging it into
something even better will be contingent on what you
give to the work.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). People who say they
need a fast answer or the offer goes away are using
scarcity tactics. If you already know what you want,
you don’t have to be squeezed for the deal to close.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). People are drawn
together out of mutual need, and they typically drift
apart when those needs either aren’t met or are
no longer needs. Lasting relationships depend on
periodic updates and renewals.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Socializing is a dance
you’re good at, as you easily tune into other people’s
rhythms. You know when to go forward, pull back,
sidestep and more. Because of this, you’ll be a
sought-after partner.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 9). Your cosmic birthday
gift is enough restlessness to fuel a big, beautiful
adventure! Emboldened by change, you’ll dive into
strange environments and come away with many
boons and benefits. Developments in your personal
life give you a sense of security. You’ll be appointed to
a position in 2022. Scorpio and Sagittarius adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 4, 33, 2, 40 and 15.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2021 Solar Eclipse Festival
It’s like a festival of cosmic events with the solar
eclipse, new moon and a conjunction of the sun
to Mercury as well. With all this action in Gemini,
the air positively crackles with social excitement,
conversational brilliance and a sense that the group
is moving forward together in fresh ways. We own the
moment; the moment is ours.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Keeping up a frantic
pace of life can feel reassuring on some levels, as
all the interaction and responsibility can pass for a
sense of importance. You’ll slow it down and learn
something interesting about yourself.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The dance of friendship
is complex and seemingly nonsensical. Friends tell
each other lies out of kindness, and they tell each
other the truth out of kindness, too. These decisions
will be instinctive and immediate.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Other people’s lives may
look a certain way from the outside, but they may as
well exist on a moon of Jupiter for all you really know
about them. There’s so much benefit to concerning
yourself strictly with your own world today.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). If the only way you can
help others is silly and impractical, you just may be
providing a more profound sort of help than you know.
Everyone needs levity.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The superior satisfaction of
self-righteousness can be delicious indeed, which is
why so many cannot resist. But judging others is also
mightily unattractive, so you may opt to protect your
looks with a “live and let live” stance.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). As much as you enjoy
a good story, you also prize the days like this one,
where everything goes so smoothly that there is no
conflict or obstacle large enough to mention.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The so-called secret isn’t
one. It’s not even hidden! And it’s not costly either. The
“secret” is just another accessible option that people
miss because it rather unglamorously blends in. Step
back. What’s everyone overlooking?
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It’s like only one door
can be opened at a time. You open a new one, and
that closes all other options. But move forward in
confidence anyway because none of your current
options is drastically different from the others.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You have this ability
to make other people feel that while they are with you,
whatever the two of you are doing is preferable to
what anyone else in the world could possibly be up to.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Things don’t have to
be high-drama to be exciting. In fact, these days, you
prefer your drama to be in the world of entertainment,
not in your real life.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Your moods, behaviors,
attitudes and actions will go down in history in the
sense that others will remember what it’s like to
interact with you. That reputation will be part of your
legacy.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Life is not a test with
option D, “all of the above,” and today you will need
to make a definite choice. The good news is making a
decision now saves you from making an excuse later.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (June 10). You know and expect
exactly what you want. Your clarity brings about
magic. Seldom does something you’ve wished for
just sail in from out of the blue and plop right into your
open hand, but that’s exactly what will happen. A key
relationship opens the door to new professional and
financial avenues. Taurus and Cancer adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 4, 33, 35, 2 and 15.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS