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Thursday, March 31, 2022
21st-Century Double Feature by David Distenfeld
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 They’re opened
and closed at
bars
5 It has a Priority
Inbox feature
10 Shindig
14 Chicken cordon
___
15 Blessed sound?
16 Voice lower than
soprano
17 Mix that contains
baking powder (In
this clue’s answer,
see letters 2-4
and 7-10)
20 Gross or net gain
21 Singer/actress
Gomez
22 Annoying person
23 “The Addams
Family” cousin
26 Go the distance
27 Ship’s storage
space (... letters
2-5 and 7-9)
30 Participate in a
poll
33 Exposed publicly
34 A bad movie may
merit only one
38 Imagine Peace
Tower designer
Yoko
39 UFC combat
discipline
40 “Mamma ___!”
42 “Mrs. America”
Emmy winner
Aduba
43 Bach piece
published
together with his
“French Overture”
(... letters 3-5 and
9-12)
47 Extinct birds
48 Back in time
49 They’re often in
tiers at weddings
50 Blueprint parts,
briefly
51 Evil act
52 Standing upright
53 “Squid ___”
(Netflix hit)
55 In a lazy way
56 What Moses did
with a staff (...
letters 4-6 and
8-10)
63 Giddy delight
64 Its gecko is
named Martin
65 Owned by us
66 Brews that may
be sour
67 Finish with
68 Many execs
earned them
DOWN
1 Half a fl. oz.
2 Warning
3 Downstairs, on a
yacht
4 Be enough
5 Manner of
walking
6 Rap battlers
7 Sashimi tuna
8 Electrolyte
particle
9 Cabin
components
10 Songs for slow
dances
11 Healing plants
12 Daredevil’s feat
13 “Hava Nagila”
dance
18 EGOT winner
Moreno
19 Toppled over
23 Lizards with
crests
24 Grocery cart
rider, often
25 Thing to “shoot,”
in hearts
28 Kind of tomato
29 Thor’s father
30 Renders
worthless
31 Ahead of the
pack
32 Partly
35 Hero that’s not
chicken?
36 Tenochtitlan
dweller
37 Hen’s perch
39 “Happy I’m
back?”
41 ___ to the throne
44 Turns up or pins
down
45 Superhero
feature feature,
briefly
46 Certain
nobleman’s
jurisdiction
54 Fringe
55 Do a pressing
chore?
56 Puerto Rico
Open’s org.
57 Word indicating a
tied score
58 Two hours before
noon
59 Laid low
60 Green prefix
61 Particular period
62 Pompous person
Where in the World? by Zachary David Levy
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 You see one at a
rugby match
6 Old PC maker
9 Unharmed figure
in a crash test
14 Hold the floor
15 Ascot, e.g.
16 Villagers of the
Great Plains
17 ___ Estrada
Chavez
18 Large vase
19 Of pitch
20 Confidential
sources spotted
her eyeing relics
at Boudhanath in
___
23 Alternative to
reggae
24 Top card, typically
25 Ex-Giant Manning
26 Detectives for
Interpol saw her
skulking around
Independence
Square in ___
32 Hangout for a
pinball fan
35 Express approval
36 Reverential poem
37 Hay bundles
38 It’s not many
39 Devilish being
41 “I” problem?
42 Neighbor of
Wash.
43 Gofer’s task
44 Witnesses heard
her discussing
the high altitude
at the Plaza
Murillo in ___
48 It follows
“Scooby”
49 Term between
names
50 Hiker’s diagram
53 International
thief hiding in
either 20-, 26-
or 44-Across
(Follow her trail
by reading all the
clues’ starts!)
58 Novelist Carr
59 Awkward sort
60 Stranger
61 Animal with
striped legs
62 Follow a snowy
trail
63 Epeeist’s ploy
64 Heavily populated
65 One is cast by a
sorcerer
30 Usukuchi-topped
noodles, perhaps
31 Ship out
DOWN
32 “Am I my brother’s
keeper?” brother
1 Some puppets
2 Eerie floor noise 33 Notes from a sitar
3 Afrocentric
34 Draft horse’s
believer
footfall
4 The Beehive
38 “Foxy Brown” ‘do
State
39 Energetically
5 Ariel and others
toweled, say
6 Library on a Mac, 40 End of an ___
once
42 Treble woodwind
7 Macaw, e.g.
43 All tied up
8 Options list
45 Big sellers of
9 “Spill it!”
airtime
10 The perfect place 46 One is undead
11 “The Simpsons”
47 Very stuck
grandma
50 Emergency
12 What corn can be
responder
ground into
51 Spy
13 Expensive bag
52 Embarkation
monogram
places
21 Little outbreak
53
Angel
food ___
22 Van, e.g., for a
54
Logician
Turing
mover
55
Eat
a
snack
26 Ending for
“Fannie”
56 Vat filler at
a Japanese
27 Take a stand
brewery
without standing
57 Entrepreneur’s
28 Hair adornment
spark
29 Oblong tomato
58 Liver oil source
type
66 Ugly things to
face, at times
East Oregonian
A11
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2022 Happy New Year
Happy New Year! No, that’s not an April Fool’s joke.
Many ancient cultures celebrated the start of the new
year on or around April 1, which closely follows the
vernal equinox. The new Aries moon adds delightful
immaturity to the merry mix of foolish pranks.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your power won’t
grow from shunning the parts of you that you
don’t like, but from integrating all parts of you and
accepting the polarities: good and bad, strong and
weak, yin and yang.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). From the outside
it may seem that everyone on the inside gets along
famously, but groups are more typically held together
by tension than by harmony.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You might think that
people who are a little like you will follow the same
lines of thought, but they won’t. Your mind is more
unique than you know. No one is you; don’t forget it.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). It’s not that you have
some burning piece of information to share, it’s just
that sharing anything is so important right now.
Satisfy your craving to connect.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Attractions aren’t always
mutual, and even when they are it’s not always so
easy to make the connection. When it happens, it’s
something to celebrate.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You see the opportunity
in a situation but you’re not an opportunist because
what you notice is the opportunity to give, to help
and to take an action that will raise everyone up.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). People appreciate
what you do for them, and it feels good to be around
people who don’t take you for granted. Just know that
you are also loved, not for what you do, but just for
being you.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’re sensitive
to the energetic reality around you. You feel the
shadows and either do something to lighten them or
avoid them altogether. Be spiritually generous, but
also know your limits.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Negativity
can be literally cleared away as you clean the
environment. You’ll be amazed at how much better
you feel when everything is in its place and the
surfaces are cleaned.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Just as the
wind moves stagnant energy outside, new influences
move the stagnant energy of the mind. Reading,
conversation and intellectual experiences are key to
optimal health.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Someone is
thinking of you and in just the way you would most
prefer. This is no accident; rather, you’ve shown
people how you like to be treated and they’ve done
as you wanted.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’ve wanted
something for a long time. The way to get it is to stop
trying. Change the focus for a while. Do other things
that delight you. Take yourself out of the normal
setting so there’s no choice but to deal with elements
unknown.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 1). You give yourself
more space and more grace this year. You let yourself
have plenty of time to do what you want. You are
kind to yourself inside your head, allowing for the
mistakes that are a natural part of being human. A
seemingly counterintuitive approach will solve a
problem. Libra and Gemini adore you. Your lucky
numbers are: 2, 14, 28, 31 and 18.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2022 Solar Conjunction Strategy
Multitasking is a myth. The multitasker isn’t doing
everything at once; rather, they are switching quickly
between tasks and there’s waste in the transition.
Pay attention to one issue at a time. It’s sweeter on
the brain as the sun and Mercury meet up in high-
intensity Aries. It’s also easier on the people you are
working closely with.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). What people say they
want isn’t what they really want. It’s not because they
are lying; it’s because they don’t know themselves as
well as they think they do. To know yourself, look at
your unguarded, unwatched behaviors.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). People can be like
wallpaper in a design catalog: the same patterns
repeating page after page. Maybe the colors change,
the scale is different, but at some point, you know what
you can expect when you turn the page.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). One person may spark
your good mood. You’ll keep the flames alive even
after this person has left. The love around you will not
be an abstract concept, but a reality you can feel.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll be tempted to
reveal your heart. What happens next is a defining
moment. Will you be strategic or messy? You cannot
make a mistake either way -- it’s just a matter of style.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You don’t need to work
so hard for what you want because it’s there for the
asking. Just ask! That will be hard enough at first, but
it gets easier with practice.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Intensity is up and
a strong sense of urgency has you in a flurry of
productivity. Much will be accomplished. It’s a good
day to put an idea to the test. You won’t have to ask too
many questions to get to the truth.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Origami artists and
physicists agree that the essence of life is folding.
Things crease and collapse onto one another, forming
new shapes. From DNA to paper to the social fabric,
much will change today with a deliberate fold.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Give yourself the
time and space to do what you want to do. It sounds
simple enough, and yet it hasn’t happened in a while.
Why? You’ll unravel the puzzle and give yourself some
peace.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You can like
someone without having to be like that person. Today
highlights your ability to relate, empathize and be
enriched by those who are very different from you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There will be a
mutual attraction between you and the subject that
fascinates you. You need more of the subject and the
subject needs more of you. Consider taking a class.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Reading is not a
tangent or indulgence, though it sometimes feels that
way. You’ll absorb what you read. Your knowledge of
people and command of language will increase your
power and influence.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Some relationships
are built on insecurity and fraught with drama. It
doesn’t make them worthless though -- intensely
imperfect situations have much to teach.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 2). You know what it’s
like to be lost, so you appreciate the value of this year’s
cosmic birthday gift: strong conviction that carries you
to a worthy purpose. Focused and productive, you’ll
ultimately be paid to inspire and teach others. Family
will uplift and show up for one another in times of
need and, more often, in times of celebration. Taurus
and Leo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 30, 2,
22 and 18.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS