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Saturday, April 2, 2022
Universal Freestyle 14 by Adrianb Johnson
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 What you need to
break?
8 Clears, as a
stopwatch
14 “Do you have a
guess?”
15 Outdoor cooking
site
16 Neckwear clips
17 “Give me that!”
18 TV network
with a Peacock
service
19 Revenge or
greed, perhaps
21 Frozen treat with
a Sugar Plum
flavor
22 Palestinian, e.g.
24 Days of old
25 Card game of
chance
26 Skin openings
28 Amphibian that
can regenerate
eye lenses
30 Many Christmas
trees
31 Honeybunch
33 Makeover locales
35 “Smooth” singer
Thomas
36 Many graduation 64 Team captains,
guests
e.g.
37 Spoil rotten
40 Horse’s
DOWN
“lunchbox”
1 Little siestas
44 Name, as
2 Facial feature of
sources
Frida Kahlo
45 Mapo ___
3 Optometrist’s
(Sichuan dish)
focus
47 Like gelato, to an
4 Baby food
Italian
catcher
48 Tennis serve call
5 Guy exiled from
Eden
49 Poker player’s
giveaway
6 Expressionist
Neiman
51 Cut down, or
dropped down
7 “After this, I’m
done”
52 (Attention,
please)
8 Quinceanera or
tawaf
54 “Sounds like a
grand time!”
9 CPR sites
56 Gas additive
10 Certain Frozen
brand
Four game, for
short
57 “The Dream,”
for Hakeem
11 Spectacular
Olajuwon
triumph,
informally
59 “That much is
clear”
12 Liabilities for
music majors
61 It broke a long
time ago
13 Controls a
bumper car
62 Football center or
tackle
15 Journalist’s
quintet of
63 Surrender, in
questions
chess
20 Seething feeling
23 “I’d like a
brewski!”
27 Crossing guard’s
sign
29 Partner of “give”
30 Favorably inclined
toward
32 Sarcastic
response to a
dubious story
34 Served up a
whopper
37 Mouth, rudely
38 Joins the party?
39 Revolving blades
40 Meet, as
expectations
41 “Well, I’ll be!”
42 Common athletic
knee injury
43 Smooth writing
implements
44 Uproar
46 Hardly any
50 “A Tale of Two
Cities” heroine
53 Small M&M’s size
54 Chopped down
55 Grandma
58 Barrel with a tap
60 Homer’s neighbor
Take a Turn by Richard D. Allen
Universal Crossword edited by Amanda Rafkin
ACROSS
1 Grocery holders
5 Sleep in the great
outdoors, maybe
9 Cowboy boot
attachments
14 Pac-12 school in
SoCal
15 Desperate appeal
16 Opposite of haram
17 *”So awesome!”
19 Prefix for
“physics”
20 Pace of a piece
of music
21 Say out loud
23 Fix the outcome of
24 Frolic
26 Oliver Twist and
Jane Eyre, e.g.
28 *Slender, savory
snacks
32 What gets turned
on after dark?
33 Leaves in
the morning,
perhaps?
34 101 course
38 Sushi tuna
39 Bart Simpson
catchphrase,
and what the
last words of the
starred clues’
answers can do
42 Rower’s stick
43 “The caveman
diet”
45 Soapmaking
substance
46 Initial poker
payment
47 *Something
wonderful, in old
parlance
51 Fruit in a
California roll
54 Otis Redding’s
record label
55 Tom Collins spirit
56 Midday meal
58 Blue ___
Mountains
62 Second to
last part of a
Shakespeare play
64 *”You have my full
attention”
66 “Later skater”
67 “It’s at the top of
my ___ list”
68 Sporty car roof
69 Awards broadcast
on 61-Down
70 From the top
71 Show your
boredom or
sleepiness
DOWN
1 Keister
2 Feeling after a
Krav Maga class
3 Glitz and ___
4 Class for some
H.S. students
5 PC core
6 In a tizzy
7 Take a Bumble
match offline
8 Church leader
9 Necessity
for making a
comeback?
10 Faux ___
11 Extremely,
informally
12 ___ to go
13 Tedious tasks
18 Australian
hoppers
22 Historic time
period
25 Dole (out)
27 QVC alternative
28 Applaud
29 That’s a laugh!
30 Name that’s
an anagram of
“mile”
31 Board gaming
surface
35 Vocal inflection
36 Apt rhyme for
“evaluate”
37 Metal deposits
39 Split the cost
40 Sun visor
41 Home made of
twigs
44 And so forth, for
short
46 Feeling of worry
48 End of an
academic URL
49 “Pretty” in
Spanish
50 Marxism’s Marx
51 Visibly stunned
52 Bad habits
53 Ready to pour
57 “Indulge me here”
59 They can be
crunched but not
eaten
60 Reach new
heights?
61 “Around the Horn”
channel
63 Like some
unnerving stares
65 Like tuba notes
East Oregonian
B7
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 2022 Lunar Conjunction
Many cosmologists believe that over 13 billion years
ago, the entire universe was condensed into a space
smaller than a dust speck. How we’ve grown. The
lunar conjunction to Uranus suggests the meeting
of an emotion, an appetite and a point of ignition.
Something as small as an idea will set off an
expansive chain of events.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). There’s a certain way
you’d like to be. Put yourself around people who have
the skill set. When you’re around people who have
what you want, much can happen through osmosis.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Remind yourself
of your good qualities, not because you need ego
inflation but because taking inventory on what you’ve
nurtured in yourself will get you in touch with what
you have to offer the world.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Even though it can be
intimidating to meet new people, there’s much to be
gained by taking the initiative to connect. It starts with
a handshake. Strangers become friends.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Usually, you know
when to step in and lend a hand. You’re always game
for saving the day. Today brings up some gray area.
You may not be sure if it’s your place or your turn.
Pause. Advance only when sure.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Obviously, you exist.
Remind everyone. Take up as much space as possible.
Walk the parameters of your territory. Gesture broadly.
Make waves. Be the force.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’ll get the chance
to show what you’ve been up to and get some
constructive feedback. If others seem surprised by
your work, it’s just because you’ve been doing it so
quietly. They had no idea what to expect from you.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You sense how others
are feeling even when they don’t want you to. They
may not be open to discussing what they are going
through, but your gentle, receptive attitude will let
them know you’re a soft place to land.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Taste is simply a
matter of knowing what you genuinely like and why.
Forget about what’s popular, what will sell or any
other social concern and get deeply in touch with your
own preferences.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). One way you
can tell a true friend: If it’s important to you, it’s
important to your friend. If you feel free to share on
subjects in which your friend has no other interest
except that it matters to you, you’ve found a keeper.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It doesn’t matter
how fast you go as long as it’s the right direction,
which is to say, forward. Sometimes forward looks
like falling down. It always involves getting up again.
Things don’t have to be smooth to be right.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’ve a unique
perspective but you don’t realize what it is yet. You
can’t find out by asking others. Go inside yourself and
direct your questions to your own heart.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Don’t leave a
situation before the agreed upon ending. It takes
patience to hang in for the last bits because your mind
will be racing ahead to the next thing, but just hang
in there.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 3). You’ll have the
guts to ask for something outrageous, and the grit to
keep working until you get it. Wins in the realm of
reputation and public image open new options. Your
financial picture brightens when you add a new skill.
Loved ones benefit from your recommendations and
support. Capricorn and Sagittarius adore you. Your
lucky numbers are: 8, 19, 4, 30 and 22.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
MONDAY, APRIL 4, 2022 Mars, Saturn and Bird Beaks
The beaks of birds are shaped to fit their food. The
hummingbird has a dainty dipper suited to hollyhock;
the vulture is built to tear into muscle; and don’t mess
with the woodpecker. The conjunction of Mars and
Saturn will show us how suited we are to fulfilling our
own needs. Use what works or adapt as necessary.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). One thing you can
count on is that however good or bad a situation
may be, it will change. The impermanence of today’s
situation is what makes it precious and beautiful.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Countries, companies
and families all have a culture. These things are more
clearly seen from the outside. You’ll visit a different
group. Your most significant observations will happen
just before you step inside the boundary.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Where humor is
lacking, you’ll have a remedy. But making people
laugh isn’t your only contribution. You can trust that
many would not be where they are today without your
birth.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). The energy that goes
into making an impression will be well-spent, not
necessarily because you make the intended impact but
because you’ll learn something in the process.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Peer pressure is real today.
People do well-intended but strange things in the
name of fitting in. To be an observer in this will be
much better than having a participatory position.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your strengths will
carry a project through. If someone else is weak in an
area, you’ll override the deficiency. As they say, what
doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You know what you
stand for, and many believe as you do. Involve them
as you get into action mode. Sketch some plans. Work
solo first, then bring your ideas to the group to revise
and refine.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). An identity crisis
doesn’t have to be a large-scale personal catastrophe.
Who you are is always changing. Not knowing who
you are and what your purpose is at every moment just
means you’re a human, open to possibility.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). What you think
is happening may be incorrect. Pretend, for a minute,
that you’re wrong. New ideas will occur to you. You’ll
get unstuck. You may even learn the truth.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’re unsure
about the next move. There’s someone who would feel
honored to be your mentor. Figure out what you need
and how best to communicate that. Then drum up the
courage and ask for it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Diversity makes
groups strong. It’s true for your friend group, too.
People with different strengths will add to your life,
whereas a group that is too much of one thing won’t
have the spark.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’re a
meteorologist of emotional weather. You read the
atmosphere and determine what kind of protection will
be appropate. A metaphoric umbrella will serve you
well around certain individuals.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 4). Out with the old.
Like sandbags dropped from a hot air balloon, you’ll
toss then rise. Your spirit is made even more buoyant
with excellent company coming into your realm. You’ll
share laughter, good food and novel experiences with
talented friends. Also featured: a change of purpose,
hearts on fire and poetic justice. Sagittarius and Leo
adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 9, 2, 28 and 12.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS