PUZZLES
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
24 Hrs. Long by Paul Coulter
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Lyft rival
5 Complete the
final details on
11 Big race sponsor
14 Church’s center
15 Make fizzy
16 “Lookie here!”
17 Late-week
schusser, say?
(Before: Like
a more playful
puppy)
19 Protrude
20 Altogether
21 AARP Bulletin
readers: Abbr.
22 ___ of Maine
(toothpaste
brand)
23 Org. that handles
a lot of baggage
24 Fella
26 Smear on
27 Coffee
dispensers for a
weekend brunch?
(Before: Former
cars with a
planetary name)
32 Flash of light
35 “Touched by an
Angel” co-star
Della
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
46
47
48
51
52
55
57
58
60
61
62
63
64
Forty winks
Billionth: Prefix
Bum, as a ride
Golda who was
Israel’s first
female leader
Alias lead-in
Be dishonest with
Heavily built
Midweek H.S.
equivalency
test? (Before:
Crammed)
Love all, say
Mr., in Mumbai
Parenthesis,
essentially
Buddy, in
Brisbane
Sweetie
Branched horn
“That feels great!”
Honking bird
seen at the start
of the week?
(Before: Meerkat,
e.g.)
Boot part
On the move
“Beg pardon ...”
Pronoun within
“She-Ra”
Sampled
65 Word after “due”
or “double”
DOWN
1 Ill-suited
2 Farm buildings
3 “Don’t Cry for
Me Argentina”
musical
4 Completely
change
5 Exit, for a building
6 Hi-___ graphics
7 Biblical boats
8 Two queens, but
not a king
9 Salt Lake City
collegians
10 Part of mpg
11 Truth who said
“Ain’t I a woman?”
12 Kind of sketch
13 Kitties that grow
immediately
when fed
18 Up, in baseball
22 T, to Socrates
25 Interred
26 Turn red, perhaps
27 ___-Cat (winter
vehicle)
28 She played
Donna on “Parks
and Rec”
29
30
31
32
33
34
38
39
41
42
44
45
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
56
58
59
Hunters’ lures
Blond shade
Agile
Chew like a
rodent
California/Nevada
attraction
All worked up
That fellow’s
Gunk in a child’s
“pie”
Called the shots
Existence
Once named
Aged like hair
Hilo hello
Change back to
00:00, say
Cadbury egg
filling
Calc or trig
___ Raton,
Florida
Aardvark’s
snacks
Make less wordy,
maybe
Warty hopper
“Welcome” site
Pennsylvania,
e.g., in D.C.
Cast Aside by David Gold and Malaika Handa
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 “Arrival” actress
Amy
6 “However ...”
9 Professional
poser
14 Trouble
continually
15 2019 Women’s
World Cup
champs
16 Come up
17 Summer weather
measure (In this
clue’s answer,
see the first 2
letters + the last
1)
19 Scurries
20 Commanded
21 Candy that reacts
with Diet Coke
22 Backside
23 “Eureka!”
25 Risque
26 Noted
educational
YouTube channel
(... first letter +
last 4)
30 American Red
Cross founder
Barton
34 “Outfit of the day”
shot, e.g., briefly
35 Lean
36 One making
many tough calls
39 Shaken
instruments
41 Graceless people
42 Contend
44 The Joker, to
Batman
45 Breaded Italian-
American dish,
informally (... first
2 letters + last 3)
49 Mar
50 Whiz
51 End table fixture
55 Most G-rated
57 Titular woman
in a Simon &
Garfunkel hit
59 Corrosive
substances
60 Captivate ...
or what three
indicated words
do, vis-a-vis
17-, 26- and
45-Across?
62 Boat sometimes
made of bark
63 Family
64 Implored
65 ___ boson
(elementary
particle)
66 “However ...”
67 Like flexible
straws
30 Shoe customized
with Jibbitz
31 Activist Remini
32 Validating
DOWN
33 Canine given a
1 Detest
new home
2 Big name in
37 Track meet part
tractors
38 A, in German
3 Carne ___
40 Stage of deep
4 39.37 inches
sleep: Abbr.
5 Sauce recipe
43 Org. that tests
instruction
disinfectants
6 Religious title
46 Comes face-to-
that means
face with?
“awakened one”
47 One may go on a
7 Manipulate
letter
8 Wealth ___
(economic policy) 48 Old movie holder
9 Got by somehow 51 Cuba ___
(cocktail that
10 Primate with
could aptly be
reddish fur
free)
11 Cajun dish
52 Straighten
containing ground
53 Dug up
meat
54 Flooded grain
12 This, in Spanish
field
13 It’s more, they
55 Dash dial that
say
anagrams to
18 Close by
“chat”
21 Hajj city
56 Berry in some
24 Egyptian snake
smoothies
26 Give it some gas! 58 Caveman’s
27 He/___ pronouns
weapon
28 Poetry
60 Word before
competition
“writing” or “light”
29 Craft site
61 Flaky dessert
East Oregonian
A15
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2022 Split Moon
The day begins with the moon in altruistic Aquarius, a
bright moment for using technological tools to connect
and help one another. Make someone’s life better and the
soul touched and spirit lifted will ultimately be your own.
A soulful Pisces moon closes out the day with emotions
more acutely felt.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). There’s fun with a new
venture even though it’s not paying you back yet. You’re
still learning but learn with your time instead of your
money. Don’t invest more dollars until it starts making
cents.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). While it’s impossible
to make anyone feel a certain way, you can certainly
be the wind that blows the sails toward that emotional
destination.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There will be a change in
the group dynamic. It’s not a change for better or worse
but it’s a change everyone will have to get used to. It won’t
go back to the way it was.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll get the chance to
talk about yourself. Be sure to give a positive takeaway to
the ending of your personal anecdotes, which is easier
to do when you’ve thought it through and assigned one.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You hate to complain, but
the noisy cat gets fed. Voicing your concerns to the right
people will make things happen. The right people include
anyone with the power to help.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It takes courage to
change it up. Not every move will do what you want it to,
but at least you’re trying things. You’re not afraid to be
vulnerable, which is a very attractive quality.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Meeting interesting people
will energize all of your relationships. Don’t be afraid to
show your true self. One person who’s crazy about the
real you is better than 100 admirers who don’t really know
you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Everyone has baggage.
When you refuse to see it as baggage, it ceases to be
that. Your expectations will be met but you would love
if someone would exceed them the way you try to do for
others.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). One way you
become aware of what’s really worth your energy is by
doing things that aren’t. When something feels like a
waste of time, you’ll take the lesson and choose differently
the next time around.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There are parts of
yesterday that are way too heavy to keep carrying around.
Leave the past where it belongs. Today is an opportunity
to be a new version of yourself.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). As a rule, you try to
be kinder than is necessary and you never regret it. This
is a lot easier because of the way you see people. You’re
always looking for and finding the good in others.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Accept your feelings
and allow yourself to process them. Better to vent in a safe
place than to let the tension build up and risk blowing up
with the wrong person or at an inopportune moment.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 5). Mention what you
want often; you’ll be around people who can help you get
it and will be overjoyed to do so. One successful person
in particular will be more than pleased to help you with
your goals. Love takes many shades this year, sometimes
burning like a hot flame and other times simmering,
gentle, reliable or comforting. Taurus and Gemini adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 5, 11, 33 and 20.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 2022 Lunar Square to Mars
The Pisces moon forms a square to Mars in Sagittarius
challenging us to experience more of the world, regardless
of how inconvenient and uncomfortable the exploration will
likely be. If it were easy, everyone would be worldly. Looking
back, it’s the daring, not the awkwardness, that will stand out
in our memories.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). The more you think
something the more power you give it. You can’t change
them, but you can change you, which could be enough to
create just the result you were hoping for.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The person talking isn’t
always communicating. The person hearing isn’t always
listening. Regardless, right now you’re so tuned into
people’s motivations and intentions, you’ll come to a deeper
understanding of your situation.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Social awareness will be a
forte of yours. You’ll be careful to take the temperature of the
rooms you enter, and you’ll change the climate just by being
there, too.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). As any dinosaur would
attest, adaptability is the talent of survivors. It doesn’t matter
how big and powerful you are; it’s the ones who respond well
to change who defy extinction.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The thing that stressed you out
a little while back now holds a different place in your mind.
You’ve finally made it to the day when you chalk it all up to a
learning experience, or maybe even a funny story.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). When you compete with
others, you give away the advantages that have held you in
good stead. Back off instead. Think it over. What would you
do if you knew you were in a league of your own?
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Creative, playful people will
make your life better. One idea leads to another and suddenly
you’re caught into the swirl. Some people have a talent for
turning ordinariness into adventure.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When the passenger inside
your head is in a dark mood, spouting unhelpful opinions,
get up and change seats. You’ll be surprised at how one
move can interrupt the whole pattern, allowing you a brighter
outlook and experience.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Here comes the kind
of yearning that doesn’t happen every day. It’s actually quite
rare and, for all its discomfort, could be considered a gift.
Desire is an ache but it’s so much better than the numbness
of wanting nothing.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There’s an art to
managing your emotions. You’re learning to use the power
of your feelings as motivation instead of seeing them as
burdens you must work around on your way to success.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). When it comes to
relationships, one good one is better than a million flimsy
ones. You’ll overlook minutiae. Pettiness helps no one. You
know solid relationships are cultivated over time and you’re
in it for the long game.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). In the classroom of life,
you teach people how to treat you. Lectures in this forum
are extremely unpopular. Rather, it’s usually a modeling
situation. You care for yourself, and others pick up the cues.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 6). You’re a deep person
who feels things acutely and thinks farther into life than
most. You’ll meet your resonant equals and create a kind of
poetry in the way you relate to one another. Debts will be
paid, wrongs righted. You’ll be a teacher and your students
will show you new ways to take your interests. Cancer and
Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 12, 11, 4 and
20.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS