PUZZLES
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Wet Paint by Paul Coulter
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Common fast-
food side order
6 So far
11 Backstabber
14 Middle meal
15 Montoya in “The
Princess Bride”
16 “A likely story!”
17 Inedible fruit that
surprisingly isn’t a
citrus
19 Anger
20 Cleopatra’s snake
21 Bit of aerobic
exercise
22 Up-and-coming
whiz
24 “Let’s see you do
better!”
26 Split, like a hoof
27 “For ___ a Jolly
Good Fellow”
28 Former legal
drama that
starred Susan
Dey
29 Howled
32 Metaphor for a
potential crisis
35 Extol
36 Line with
triangles, on a
weather map
38 Before long, to a
poet
39 Become
established
41 The way things
are going
42 Track shapes
43 Big name in
outdoor gear
44 New York NBA
team
45 Candor
49 Pooh’s pink pal
50 Monotonous
routines
51 One may be
short-sleeved
52 John, in England
53 Contents of some
palettes ... or
what 17-Across,
11-Down and 31-
Down could be,
given that their
starts are rivers?
56 Bird that hoots
57 High up
58 Not throw away,
say
59 Person
celebrated in
June
60 Abominable
snowmen
61 Construction
spots
DOWN
1 Ice-cream treat
served with a straw
2 Rene of
“Ransom”
3 Like “Candy
Crush” purchases
4 Heart record, for
short
5 Relative of a man
cave
6 Buenos ___
7 Lose your temper
8 Yang’s
counterpart
9 Baba ghanoush
ingredient
10 Initial bit of
progress
11 Drink such as
liebfraumilch
12 Composer
Copland
13 Not us
18 Elevator pioneer
23 Saint of
Hollywood
25 Lucifer
26 Extended family
29 Its first letter
doesn’t stand for
“bread”
30 Battery size
31 Potato variety
developed in
Canada
32 You may bid or
build on it
33 Oui’s opposite
34 No ___ in sight
36 “Pecos Bill” or
“Paul Bunyan”
37 “Friends”
character with a
Ph.D.
40 Saratoga or
Daytona
41 Stretching
muscles
43 Campus military
org.
44 Southern Plains
native
45 What the truth
does, per Lizzo
46 “I’m a little teapot/
Short and ___”
47 Brusque
48 Affirmatives
49 Trudge
50 Mortgage
change, for short
54 Pampered one?
55 Fragrant
neckwear
Matching Pairs by Alex Eaton-Salners
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 “Ditto”
6 Monitor for TV?
9 Persuasive
assignment
14 Company in
a 2001 fraud
scandal
15 Evian, par
exemple
16 Hot, frothy drink
17 *Leslie Odom
Jr.’s Tony-winning
“Hamilton” role
19 Goryeo Dynasty’s
land, once
20 Roofer’s supply
21 Deviate from the
script
23 Popular site for a
stud
24 Latin epic poem
26 *Marine plant that
grows in beds
29 Word after “jet” or
“time”
30 Paleo’s opposite
32 “___ the way you
think”
33 Soft lock
35 Places for
sweaters?
38 Like some tape ...
and each starred
clue’s answer,
based on its
first and last two
letters?
41 They may have
creaky boards
42 Stonehenge
worshipper
45 Mandolin’s kin
47 Regret
49 Earth-friendly
prefix
50 *Rib cook-off
need
53 Some weight
lifters
55 Devour
56 Ivory and Irish
Spring products
58 ___ Peter to pay
Paul
59 Activist Thunberg
62 *License to drill?
65 Fire-setting crime
66 Ernie of golf
67 Exposed as a
fraud, e.g.
68 Waiting in the
wings, perhaps
69 Actor’s workplace
70 Jawaharlal in
Indian history
DOWN
1 ___ otter
2 Experiencing
great success
3 Like some
marriages
4 “G.I. Jane” star
Demi
5 Cozy stopover
6 Prolonged quarrel
7 “The Very Hungry
Caterpillar” author
Eric
8 Marie who was
the first winner of
two Nobel Prizes
9 Grand Teton
beast
10 ___ Tome and
Principe
11 Run out of pants?
12 “Relax,” to a drill
instructor
13 Many moons
18 Said, as a
farewell
22 Russian
pancakes
24 PC key that
modifies other
keys’ functions
25 Narrow-minded
27 Comparatively
pleased
28 Choir platform
31 Nobel Peace
Center’s home
34 First sound in
“Georgia”
36 ___ Lingus (Irish
carrier)
37 Cold War initials
39 Yeltsin of the 37-
Down
40 Straight up?
43 Brew that’s frozen
during production
44 Cinco menos tres
45 Pizza Hut
competitor
46 Exam for an
aspiring Mensan
48 Sch. in La Jolla
50 Started
51 Gold deposits,
perhaps
52 Big spoon, of a
sort
54 Have a dispute
57 Vowelless
summons
60 Excessively
61 ___ Arbor
63 Many, many
moons
64 End of Brown’s
URL
East Oregonian
A15
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 Aspects of Warmth
Ask the yoga instructor at the hot yoga studio, the
dragonfly sunning on a rock and the partygoers around
the bonfire: Warmth changes things. It can make us
move through life with more fluidity, bring us to a more
energized physicality or draw us together. Today’s heat
source will be the friction of Venus and Saturn.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ll be given plenty
of leeway to do what you want with a project. However, it
will benefit you to ask for input from many and work in
conjunction with a team, getting overall approval before
you begin the work.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You will be as lucky as
you are daring. Find out what happens when you take
an uninteresting aspect of your day and push it a little
further, and a little further, until the action moves into a
territory of absurdity.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It’s good that this
fond wish of yours doesn’t come true right away. The
anticipation is part of what makes an outcome wonderful.
And besides, the journey is where all the learning
happens.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Sometimes, your
nurturing ways allow others to relax enough to grow into
the next move. But nurturing isn’t always warm and soft.
Today, your care may have a tougher side.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). First comes a realization; then
comes your plan. To make a plan before you recognize
the true nature of things would be to plan in vain. You
cannot force your knowledge, but you can observe well,
holding a space for all to come together.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The cosmic gift of the day
will come wrapped in humor. Whether you laugh silently
to yourself or raucously with friends, you’ll be healed by
the body shake a joke can make.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Oddly enough, knowing
too much about a problem could inhibit you from seeing
the solution. Children and newbies may have a more
helpful take on it than those mired in the issues.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You can’t change
the past, but you can change the backstory. Challenge
yourself to see things a little differently than you did
yesterday. Find the spin that makes you more excited
about who you are right now.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Although there
may be no tangible prize for the endeavor you now spend
so much of your life on, there are rewards to be had here,
tangible or abstract, overt or implied.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’re adaptable,
with a wide social vocabulary to draw from. If you have
to change your communication style to get the message
across, you will. Understanding your listener is key.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). In certain tribes where
bravery is more prestigious than anything that can be
bought, scars are status symbols. You have emotional
scars no one knows about. Would you consider wearing
one with pride?
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). If there is pressure to
do things right, either get the most qualified person for
the job or find a way to eliminate that pressure. The spirit
of innovation cannot thrive where people are afraid to fail.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 17). You’ll make this new
era beautiful. Once you start the work, you’ll get plenty of
help, so take initiative, and execute your impulses with
gusto. Assemble a posse; make good on the strength in
numbers. By losing some individualism, you gain access
to more than you thought possible. Lessons will be worth
the price. Scorpio and Aquarius adore you. Your lucky
numbers are: 2, 22,10, 3 and 29.you. Your lucky numbers
are: 7, 15, 4, 44 and 39.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2021 Memory-Making Moon
Like a party animal at the end of the night, the moon
gets up to quite a ruckus on the journey from Aquarius
to Pisces. Mercury, Jupiter and the sun each receive the
lunar attention, swelling the noise and pushing their
social agenda to the point of maximum interactions.
Friends and memories will be made.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You accept responsibility
for the way things unfold in your life. Even when you
didn’t cause events, you look at how you might have
influenced or allowed them to happen.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). “All’s fair in love” they
say, but how could it possibly be? Even if it’s (SET ITAL)
mostly(END ITAL) fair in love, civility still goes a long
way. You can override bad form with good manners.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Do what it takes to bolster
your self-esteem. It would be a shame to reject the
abundance of this day out of a feeling of unworthiness.
You’re deserving of all this love and more.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’re open-minded,
intellectually flexible and willing to question your
ideology. Consider that whatever you believe, the
opposite belief could also be true.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Leave strategizing the end
game to the chess masters. It’s a projection that won’t
help you too much now. The problem with the next
moment is that you can’t live it, so stay in this one -- the
only one you have real power in.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). As the sign that rules
natural growth, you’re patient with the time it takes to
develop. There are those who seem to plant the seed in
the ground and then dig it up every few hours to see how
it’s doing. Teach them.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). A special relationship
demands heart and soul. Your willingness to be
uncomfortable is, at the end of the day, what makes the
commitment heroic.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Clear communication is
a cornerstone of respectful interactions. The problem is
we all communicate differently. Be patient and receptive.
It helps to lead with a belief that others are well-intended.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Since it is unkind
to tempt the weak or push painfully into tender spots,
you’re careful to learn more about people before you get
too forward with your playfulness.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There’s a thread
running through this pattern. You may get glimpses of
it, or perhaps you won’t see it at all right now, but stay
open and aware. Later, you’ll be able to follow it, and all
will make sense.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Do you really know
when you’re satisfied? A storm of thoughts and feelings
could interfere with the signal. The voice of satisfaction
can be so mild. Instead of trying to hear through noise,
get calm.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Getting intimate
knowledge of a tool is not really high on your list of fun
things to take on. You’d rather focus on the job itself!
And yet, taking the time to master your tools now will
ultimately save you time.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 18). These are the days
of wonder, of tender loving care, of sweet arrivals. Your
ever-evolving sense of humor will have you sailing
through a tricky dynamic. The togetherness of your
growing family will be a source of soul fortification. It will
be extraordinarily lucky to make a hobby, talent or interest
a higher priority. Capricorn and Gemini adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 10, 4, 44, 13 and 5.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS