PUZZLES
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Picture This! by May Huang
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Self-righteous
killjoy
5 Story lines
9 Clumps of hair
14 Raise, as a child
15 Like healthier
beef
16 Harden (to)
17 Part of your seat
that a thriller has
you on
18 City where the
Nobel Peace
Prize is awarded
19 Catwalker
20 Reason to skip a
conference call
23 Gadot who
portrays Diana
Prince
24 Young chaps
25 Rains icy pellets
27 Chip with a
Nacho Cheese
flavor
30 When repeated,
“Amen!”
31 ___ Man
(red-and-gold
superhero)
32 Market research
panel
38 Test that some
colleges don’t
require
39 Afflict
40 Code of life
41 Suspicious
mouse activity,
perhaps
46 Tantrums
47 ___ ex machina
48 Some are heavier
than hippos
50 Self-sacrificing
sort
53 Membership level
54 Actor Butterfield
55 Spend very little
time chilling?
61 Egyptian capital
63 Vegetable used
for some red dyes
64 Solemnly swear
65 Rapper’s
improvisation
66 Showed up
67 Least possible
amount
68 They can sting
more than once
69 Cafeteria tray,
perhaps, in the
winter
70 Low digits
DOWN
1 USA’s leader
2 Ctrl+Y, on a PC
3 “Othello”
antagonist
4 Imaginary
mischief-maker
5 “Get ___ this!”
(“Check it out!”)
6 Musical pauses
7 Home to San
Fran
8 Make out, in
Manchester
9 Interval between
cause and effect
10 Card game
whose name is
shouted
11 Misrepresent, as
figures
12 Award after Best
in Show?
13 Successfully
markets
21 Marbling
22 Avails oneself of
26 Go wrong
27 The “D” in CD
28 Like some
histories
29 Naan alternative
30 “Nomadland”
streamer
33 Rowers’
implements
34
35
36
37
42
43
44
45
46
49
50
51
52
53
56
57
58
59
60
62
Espionage org.
Father of Thor
“Do ___ others ...”
Get through a
difficult course
Chicago summer
hrs.
Electronic entry
gadgets
Prepare to store,
as a flag
Strayed
Insect with a
burning bite
She/___
pronouns
Long-tailed parrot
Carne ___
Bars under bar
cars
Many a
crossword has
one
Basics
Make airtight
Acronym for
a dressing
ingredient
Intense state of
focus
Fleecy females
Jeans feature
that may be
intentional
All Over the Map by Steve Faiella
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Mississippi River
source hidden in
“Fujita scale”
7 Soup purchases
11 Perform
14 *Manufacturer’s
nightmare
(Theme hint:
Notice a stack
of words in each
pair of starred
clues’ answers)
15 Canal to the
Hudson River
16 Lead-in to “carte”
17 *Radiohead song
with the lyric
“This is what
you’ll get”
19 Letters after
“DVD”
20 ___ pork
(Chinese dish)
21 No longer knotted
23 Fifth tire
25 Small bills
26 Tax pros
28 **Deliberately
delay
32 Not me or
them
33 **Prepare to
tackle something
37 ***Briskly, to
Brahms
41 High in the sky
42 ***Foliage tour
sight
44 Diamonds,
informally
45 “Get Here” singer
Adams
46 ___ browns
48 “Stat!”
51 Early ___
(morning person)
54 Emphasize
57 ****LGBTQ+
supporters
60 No one hates to
break it
61 ****Occasion for
a pillow fight
65 Part of a Freudian
trio
66 Sketchy numbers
on fake IDs
67 Jumper’s cord
68 Alternative to pre-
owned
69 “Do the ___!”
(“Figure it out!”)
70 Muscle jerks
DOWN
1 Vex
2 Side in a baseball
game
3 Height: Prefix
4 Triangular Indian
pastry
5 Jewelry fasteners
6 Letter before beta
7 Collectible
cartoon frame
8 NPR’s Shapiro
9 Preemie’s ward,
for short
10 “As ___ on TV”
11 Alphabetically
first name,
perhaps
12 Genetic equal
13 Brings under
control
18 More than my
22 “Creed II” actor
Lundgren
24 That, in Madrid
26 Pepsi or RC
27 Orange juice
option
29 Cyndi Lauper’s
“___ Colors”
30 Intensify, with “up”
31 Caesar’s lang.
32 Candied root
vegetable
33 Refuge in a
snowball fight
34 Flowery wreaths
35 Gateway ___ (St.
Louis structure)
36 Previously named
38 Marry secretly
39 Solidify
40 Hwy.
43 Corn serving
46 Assist after a fall
47 “Thank U, Next”
singer Grande
48 Quaking tree
49 All the world, to
Shakespeare
50 One of Cupid’s
can bring love
52 Response to “Are
you ready?”
53 Hunks of marble
55 Junk email
56 Complicated
story
58 Work units
59 It may bear fruit
62 Li of “Mulan”
63 Volcanic powder
64 Affirmative
answer
East Oregonian
A9
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2021 Astral Aspects of Energetic Discipline
The worthiest practices develop your ability to control
your own energy. Your energy animates everything about
your personhood, including your behavior, thoughts,
attractions, responses and more. To flow your energy
well is to live well. Mercury and Pluto emphasize the
need for personal rituals of physical, mental and spiritual
discipline.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You don’t approach
relationships like an investor approaches the stock
market, with an eye constantly out for the return. You’re a
giver, so you give. The winds of love will distribute your
offerings perfectly.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). What do you want to
be known for? The answer to that question has changed
many times over the years and is changing you still.
Today brings novel and bright new ideas on the subject.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Space and silence can be
a healing gift to a relationship. Long conversations are
apt to get off track, so keep it brief, say what you need to
say, and then leave and let it sink in.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You shouldn’t have to
power through an endeavor on your willpower alone.
Demand something of the venture. Is it exciting enough
to pull you forward? Momentum is easy when the job fits
with your life and interests.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The past has your attention
like a spell. Break the hold it has over you by freshening
up your environment. Different and new surroundings
will sing out to you, “Welcome to today!”
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). No one is born strong.
Strength is weakness handled proactively. You’ve lifted
much in this lifetime and gotten stronger with each effort.
You’ll do it again today.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’ve seen plenty around
here, and you’re ready to see what’s over there. This
appetite for adventure, being stronger than usual, is
going to take some planning to execute, and that will be
half the fun.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’ve a multifaceted
skill set. When you don’t get the chance to use some
of these skills for too long a time, you start to feel
diminished. Want a spiritual lift? Seek opportunities to
exercise your competence.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). The inherent chaos
of human connection is bound to create a mess sooner
or later. Would you really want it any other way? Today’s
madness is poetry in motion. It will even seem to rhyme.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The old
vaudevillians had it right. A three-step process helps the
show along quite nicely. First, tell them what you’re going
to do. Next, do it. Finally, tell them what you did. Cue the
applause.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). How do you buy time?
In the case of library fines and overdue credit cards, you
can buy it with money. But in most other cases, time is
bought with charm. Your charisma will get you as much
of someone’s time as you want.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You are as worthy of
the best things in life as any king, queen or saint. The
question is, what constitutes a “best thing”? Love’s gaze
tops the list. Currently, the most splendor-per-inch will
be found in the eyes of another.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 1). You’ll work toward
something you want, and then the universe shows you an
even better fit. It won’t require more effort, just different
effort. You’ll be enlivened by a challenge. You’ll make a
system out of the solution that will be helpful to others.
New thought and fitness patterns raise the amount of
fun in your world. Gemini and Aquarius adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 4, 44, 41, 20 and 15.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2021 What the Moon Says
What the moon says, as she opposes and antagonizes
along her merry path, is that things won’t stay the same
because they can’t. Life is a swing, a fleeing and returning
pendulum, a tetherball wrapping and unwrapping around
the pole. Pleasurable circumstances are temporary. So
are uncomfortable ones. Hang on for the change.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). If you do too much of what
they want, you become predictable. It is also predictable
to do very little of what they want. Predictability weakens
your stance. Comply intermittently.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Everything you obtain,
you have to find a place for, maintain and possibly insure.
This is why you think twice before you accept gifts and
think seven times before you buy anything.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). To memorize a thing is
to make it sacred. So you commit to memory not just the
verse, the creed, the pledge, but also the smell of a shirt
and the feeling of a hand.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Your love, as stretchy
as sunshine, permeates the environments you touch,
floods out the windows and hallways of those places, and
extends far beyond your horizon.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Speak up, even if you suspect
you’ve little influence in the matter. Making the effort will
be important to your self-esteem. Whether or not they
listen is irrelevant, though you might be surprised.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Certain relationships
baffle you. You’d be hard-pressed to name their benefits.
But at least they present a chance to work on such things
as conflict resolution, boundary enforcement and taking
control of your focus.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’ve grown out of
certain concepts you used to hold dear, though some
of the people around you will hang onto them for life.
The clash in ideology doesn’t have to diminish your love,
though it will compartmentalize it some.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). All is not lost, but
something is! Whether you pray to St. Anthony, the
patron saint of lost objects, meditate on the lost object or
retrace your steps, you’ll have a talent for recovery.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You don’t share
stories because you like talking. You want someone to
witness your feeling and have it (SET ITAL)with(END
ITAL) you. Those who can connect over the shared
experience are the gems of your personal life.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’re so good at
calming the fears of others because you take the time to
know what they are. It’s more than listening. You feel and
answer their underlying emotion.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). When others are
happy, you are, too. You don’t even have to know them
all that well to feel the surge in enthusiasm. You’re a
supporter and a celebrator. The world will bring you the
reasons.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You want to do more for
others, but life keeps tempting you inward. Don’t believe
it! There’s nothing in you that needs fixing. The fast way
to improve is outward-facing. Everything you want will
happen through other people.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 2). Gratitude is a
superpower for you, and your thankfulness is the magic
that multiplies your blessings. The vexing problem
diminishes with neglect. You’ll be somehow able to give
what you never got yourself -- a victory and evidence of a
beautiful evolution. You’ll align with a practical mentor to
execute a winning plan. Gemini and Capricorn adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 4, 25, 41, 15 and 39.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS