PUZZLES
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Pub Crawl by Winston Emmons
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 *Goalpost
connector
6 *House feature
with a sink
9 *Prying tool
13 Prepare to hit, as
in paintball
14 Part of a trolley
track
16 ___ Strauss
17 A deleted one
may still be
viewable
18 Name hidden in
“air marshal”
19 Middle Eastern
gulf
20 Longs
22 Neglected
property, perhaps
24 Unintentionally
reveals
26 “Billions” channel,
briefly
29 Fifth Greek letter
30 Jazz genre
33 Stones in some
hardscapes
35 ___ Jones
36 Island near Java
37 Second or sixth
president
38 Stroke gently
39 Comic actress
Sykes
40 Boston NBA
player, informally
41 Uber alternative
42 Oppressively
heavy
43 Snaky curve
44 Accumulated
charges
46 “All seats are full”
letters
47 Support
structurally
48 Spots with many
parking spots
51 The scarlet letter
and others
56 Metal sources
57 Iron oxide
59 Jeweled
headwear
60 Dryer detritus
61 Stallion’s father
62 Pompeo of
“Grey’s Anatomy”
63 *Chewy, fruity
snack
64 *Neckwear
accessory
65 *Ranch location?
DOWN
1 *Place where
drinks aren’t free
2 Costa ___
3 Warning sign
4 Went to the
bottom
5 Team at
Pittsburgh’s Heinz
Field
6 Analogues to
ankles
7 It has a natural
canal
8 Appointment
book division
9 Handbag fastener
10 Improve the look
of, presumably
11 More than
12 *One is stocked
with bottles
15 Hide oneself
21 Workout units
23 “Ich bin ___
Berliner”
25 Article
accompaniment,
and a hint to each
starred answer’s
location and
missing word
26 *Long key
27 King of the
underworld
28 Zeros’ shapes
30 The Byrds and
The Monkees
31 Like Biden, vis-a-
vis Harris
32 *Where to
enjoy grand
entertainment?
34 Mouth-to-mouth
pro
36 Cry from a lamb
38 Business attire
39 They can be
bookmarked
41 Serves the party
42 Endure
44 What you may
find under a sofa
45 Student taking an
exam
47 Moisten during
roasting
48 *Valuable ingot
49 Diva’s
performance
50 Lease
52 Colorado tributary
53 Where to see a
map of stores
54 Neighborhood
55 *Shallow water
hazard
58 ___ Lanka
It All Works Out by August Miller
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Blanket that isn’t
warm?
5 Prefix for “loyal”
8 High hairstyle
12 Give the slip
13 Home (in on)
14 “Grammar” is a
common one
15 *Substantially
18 “___ now or
never”
19 B&B relative
20 Comes to light
21 *1986 hit about a
woman wearing a
colorful dress
25 Pass with flying
colors
26 (Not my error)
27 Tug
31 Dizzying MoMA
works
34 “Butter” nut
36 Compete
37 *Sport that may
involve clearing
gates
40 Magenta or
mauve
41 Lights’
counterparts, on
laundry night
42 Green spots in
deserts
43 Basra’s country
45 Poor grade
46 “Full Frontal” airer
47 *Where a
mechanic often
works
53 Seedy tropical
fruit
56 Feminine
pronoun
57 Body scan: Abbr.
58 Grimm fate? ...
and a hint to the
last words of the
starred clues’
answers
62 ___-checker
63 Paradise in
Genesis
64 Hybrids, e.g.
65 Reproachful
sounds
66 Kind of milk or
sauce
67 You may like one
on Instagram
DOWN
1 DMV animal in
“Zootopia”
2 Vaccine
administrator,
often
3 Auden’s “___
to the Medieval
Poets”
4 Rainy
5 1992 Cy Young
Award winner and
AL MVP
6 Nest egg letters
7 Vehicle that
soaks up the sun
8 Waiting to be
picked up?
9 Things for
catching or
cooking lobsters
10 Actor Hill of “The
West Wing”
11 Lowest digits in
Sudoku puzzles
12 Radiate
13 Like Monty
Python
16 Take cover
17 Rage
22 “___ and the Real
Girl” (2007 film)
23 Played a role
24 Small cuts from
shavers
28 Alamo alternative
29 Highest digit in
Sudoku puzzles,
typically
30 Taproom barrels
31 “Fancy seeing
you here!”
32 Come down in
buckets
33 Acreage, e.g.
34 “Gay” city in a
Cole Porter tune
35 Mythical weeper
38 First and last
meals together,
maybe?
39 Tiny bit, in
recipes
44 Gallon fractions
46 You, in the Bible
48 Bronx MLB team,
on scoreboards
49 “And ___ what?”
50 Neglects to
mention
51 “... but I could be
mistaken”
52 Casual living
space?
53 “As if!”
54 Small batteries
55 “Take your ___”
59 Hubbub
60 Preschooler’s
downtime
61 Tegan and Sara,
e.g.
East Oregonian
A13
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021 Jupiter’s Lightning Scheme
The sun angles Jupiter to open a stream of abundant
good fortune in the realm of relationships, art and lovely
living. This casts cosmic lighting on lifestyle topics.
What’s working, and how can we get more of it? To live
in beauty is not as much about taste as it is contentment.
Taking pleasure in what you have is the secret to further
bounty.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Those who share your
interest may not do so with the same amount of passion
as you. You’ll be most effective and influential when you
temper your enthusiasm to their level, plus one.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Get your hands dirty in
the endeavor. It’s the only way to learn that you can really
trust. What works, works. You don’t have to know why it
works. You’ll make incredibly complicated things happen
by just flipping a few switches.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Your focus has more
power than usual, and you’ll benefit from deciding early
in the day what you’re going to think and how you’re
going to feel. Too contrived? It’s a contrivance that will
work wonders for you.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Thoughts create currents
that actions get swept into. Flow a multitude of sparkling,
powerful thoughts in the same direction. Thoughts that
contradict, rub or collide with each other can cause
paralyzing turbulence.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The usual methods will fall
flat. They are too familiar. People need excitement and
risk. Strangely, you’ll be more effective when you care
less about the effect.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). In the television series
of life, those involved in your storyline have their own
spinoff shows, too. You don’t think of yourself as being in
the center of it all, and because of this, everyone around
you feels like a star.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Physically finishing the
task won’t be enough to get the sense of completion you
desire. Stick around to witness how your work is received.
Are you up to getting feedback? It will make you proud.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Once again, you’ll find
yourself in over your head. The fish don’t care, and neither
should you. Even if this were as deep as the Mariana
Trench, you’d still be swimming, as you do, near the top.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Not everyone
is as skilled in the art of getting along as you are, but
you’ll provide good modelling as you acknowledge the
validity of other people’s wants and needs, even when you
personally cannot relate to them.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’re not sure if
the story you hear today is true. You’re not even sure how
to go about finding out either way. Wander discretely
away from that drama, and go where more honesty and
evidence exists.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ve seen love
strike like a bolt from beyond right onto the movie set.
Here comes something else... a realistic version of love
developed over time with trust, effort and compromise,
which is somehow every bit as electric.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You can’t control what
happened before you got on the scene, but you feel
partially responsible for what happens after you leave.
This is why you exercise as much influence for good as
you can while you’re there.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 15). New experience
changes identity. You love who you are, but it’s also your
destiny to grow. So you’ll prioritize novel experience,
and you’ll sign up for the things that have a chance to
shape you in the direction of fulfilling the promise of
your talents. This allows you to touch more lives. A savvy
investment pays in February. Cancer and Gemini adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 2, 14, 44, 7 and 34.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2021 Spirit Moon
Heading toward Halloween, the haunts come early
with the Pisces moon highlighting specters of past
experience. The guests may be uninvited, but many
bring fond memories. A fine feature of the spiritual world
is that it takes up zero physical space and can overlay
any circumstance or environment; no furniture moving
is necessary.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). It’s not too much to ask
for a bit of glamour out of life, your experiences, your
environment. Although, in all likelihood, today you’ll end
up creating it some way on your own.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Thoughts don’t drive the
car. You’ll go where your body takes you. So how can you
get your body to do the things your mind thinks are a
good idea? Seek new techniques for wrangling your inner
animal.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). If every human belief
system is fundamentally flawed, then it’s a waste of time
to look for the one that isn’t. Find a good-enough fit, with
ideas you can stand behind, and do the most good you
possibly can from that place.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). People have a similar
relationship with themselves as they do with others.
Acceptance is the main work to be done in both cases. If
you are having trouble accepting yourself, try accepting
someone else -- and vice versa.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll go far with your project
on this day, when your energy is steady and your focus
is consistent. There will also be brief bursts of intense
emotion to help you go at your purpose harder and with
brilliant results.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You don’t have to put
your hands on anything to change it now. You can count
on things to obey their nature to good effect. Like the
moon, you will influence from afar just by making your
regular rounds.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). People know you’re fair,
but right now, you’re hoping you won’t have to be the
judge. You’re powerful now, so even your most innocuous
opinions could have unintended influence.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). If you feel distant from
a person, you are less likely to care about whether or not
your actions please them. Is it a consolation to you that
it’s your closeness that makes you care?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’ll take a look
around and realize that this isn’t quite what you had
planned. On the other hand, some of it is much better.
And of much of the rest, it could be said, “This is the
good life.”
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ve been going
at it too fast. Take it down 10 notches in the manner of
someone walking onto the scene in that slow-motion
effect that always makes people look so cool in the
movies.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Whether driving,
playing video games or navigating a fun night, you try not
to grip the controls too hard, as it would limit your range
and lengthen your response time. You’ll stay flexible and
ready for anything.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Patterns establish
themselves. Experience is the best teacher in this regard.
Most wouldn’t know how to get ahead of it, but you see
options that allow you to figure out how you want it to go
before it even starts.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 16). Your cosmic gift is
spatial balance, which is the key to creating beauty in
many art forms, including the art of good relationships,
lovely environments and successful businesses. While
gambling isn’t advised, a well-researched plan involving
a degree of risk will pay off with an influx of resources.
Taurus and Capricorn adore you. Your lucky numbers
are: 5, 33, 31, 3 and 28.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS