PUZZLES
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Ba-dum-tss by Michael B. Berg
Universal Crossword edited by Amanda Radfkin
ACROSS
1 *Photograph
5 *Alcoholic treat
that jiggles
10 *Free throw
14 Turkish currency
15 Fiji competitor
16 Brand of dog food
17 Rapper/actor in
“SVU”
18 It might be hard
to resist
20 Hawaiian geese
22 Dissenting votes
23 Swimwear in a
Sisqo hit
24 Tiny particles
26 West of old
Hollywood
27 Pranked using
bathroom tissue,
for short
28 Rest area?
32 Went after
35 ___ tai
36 Just all right
37 “Told ya!”
38 Drum stroke
after a punchline
... or a hint to
interpreting the
starred clues’
answers
41 West Bank grp.
42 How a WNBA
game may end
44 Prefix with
“binary”
45 Attaches, like a
patch
47 Wage
49 Car part that can
be used as a
swing
50 Angsty genre
51 Blush or
foundation, e.g.
55 Despises
58 Honey ___!
(cereal)
59 Animal whose
name means
“laziness”
60 Environmentally
friendly travel
63 End in ___ (come
out even)
64 Prefix with
“nautical”
65 Present-day
deliveryman?
66 Name hidden
in “copped an
attitude”
67 *Tricky tennis
stroke
68 *Like eyes after
an all-nighter,
maybe
69 *Powerful hockey
hit
DOWN
1 *Y-shaped
weapon
2 More upscale
3 Large
performance
venue
4 Inventors’
documents
5 Jacuzzi feature
6 Smoothed (out)
7 Rides to the red
carpet
8 Drinks like a cat
9 N.Y.’s Canadian
neighbor
10 Some families
have two
11 Oil, at a trattoria
12 Atop
13 *One-in-a-million
chance
19 Slightly
21 “___ Mario Bros.”
25 Served as a
segue for
26 Process by which
one cell becomes
four
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
39
40
43
46
48
49
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
61
62
Cry of contempt
“My bad!”
Capital by a fjord
*Apollo mission,
e.g.
*Short golf stroke
Actress ___ Mae
Lee
“Howdy, sailor!”
AOL alternative
“The Simpsons”
bartender
Semesters, e.g.
Where a
Christmas angel
might be placed
Young’uns, in
Scotland
“Are not!”
comeback
Throw at
Slacks fabric
Tally
1986 Turner
autobiography
*Low blow
*Photo in an
actor’s portfolio
Laptop brand
Bull, in Spanish
Like dissertation
defenses
Computer port
letters
Furious
Statheads by Erik Agard
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 “Let’s get this
show on the ___”
5 Covered up
8 Greeting to a
matey
12 R&B star
India.___
13 Exalting poem
14 Leia’s twin
15 Designation
for the Nelson-
Atkins Museum’s
~19-foot-high
shuttlecocks
18 2009 Miranda
Lambert song
about a cheater
19 Scared
22 Game spelled
by removing “w”
from “Twister” and
rearranging the
rest
26 “Birds of ___”
27 Third-smallest
country
31 Prefix for
“dynamic”
32 Group of whales
33 “You serious?”
35 2021 WNBA
champs
36 Roster of people
hoping to be
admitted
39 The ___ (New
York City
borough)
41 Donkey, biblically
42 Far from excitable
45 West African
currency units
47 Understands
48 Ultimately
became
50 “You couldn’t find
any more?”
51 Mo. when the
new year festival
Quviasukvik
starts
52 All-out brawl
54 Game with
Reverse cards
55 Sports stat
that’s a hint to
the initials and
meanings of
15-, 18- and
36-Across
60 In-flight guesses:
Abbr.
61 Rowboat tool
62 Lightsaber fight
63 Given a new hue
64 Pig’s place
29 Vases with bases
30 Authorities’ rules,
DOWN
for short
1 Uncooked
33 “There, it should
2 Gold, in Spanish
work now”
3 Route for a plane 34 Oct. 20 zodiac
4 India’s capital
sign
territory
37 Author Moody or
5 Amber Ruffin,
Bronte
for “The Amber
38 Wooden strip
Ruffin Show”
39 Didn’t stay
6 Inactive
colorfast
7 “I accept your
offer!”
40 Kept for another
8 Organisms in
season
birdbaths
43 Tool for making
9 Labor leader
yarn by hand
Dolores
44 This, in Spanish
10 Signs off on
46 Japanese
11 Thus far
wrestling form
16 Failed to
47
Clarified
butter in
17 Religious
biryani
ceremony
19 Grindr, e.g.
49 Mexican money
20 To’s counterpart
50 Novelist McMillan
21 Silicon Valley
53 Aspiring
location named
attorney’s exam
for a tree
56
Scottish
no
business
57 “Acid”
23 “Don’t worry ...”
58 Music holders in
24 Annoy
cases
25 ___ latte
28 Piece in an opera 59 French yes
65 Fried okra, e.g.
East Oregonian
A15
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2022 Restless Moon
The restless Virgo moon tugs at Venus and begs
favors from Uranus. Waiting is pointless. Jump into
the game whether or not you know how it’s played.
As long as the ante is low, you’ll be fine. Education
always has costs. Sometimes you pay for instruction;
other times payment takes the form of loss -- the
fastest, most efficient teacher of all.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You may have
good reasons for feeling guarded around a certain
someone. Perhaps your unconscious is receiving
warning signs that your conscious mind has yet to
pick up on.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ve grown and
changed in both intended and unintended ways.
Reassess. If you were a character in a novel, how
would you describe yourself at this point in the
journey?
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). With time and
consistent effort in one direction, you can have what
you want. You’ll make cuts today. You’ll let go of the
distractions and dead weight that keep you from the
aligned focus you need to be successful.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). It is only through
retrospect that you can understand the feelings,
secrets and insights hidden in your psyche. Writing
will improve your memory. The more you get down,
the deeper you can go.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You appreciate helpful
friendliness, although you don’t always trust it.
You like to know what everyone has to gain from
a situation. Today you’ll distinguish the genuinely
kindhearted from those who are up to something.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). People need
entertainment. Bored people are unpleasant at best,
dangerous at worst. That’s where you come in. You’ve
a talent for keeping people occupied, amused and
delighted.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The situation gets out
of hand. This is how you know it’s energized. You can
use this! In time you’ll figure out how to constructively
apply the resource. For now, just notice. Determine
what’s under your control and focus there.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You can only do so
much by yourself. Share ideas with a group. Seek
those with different but complementary skills. You’ll
find you can help one another accomplish goals.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Before
something exists, it doesn’t. And when it doesn’t, it’s
often unimaginable. Maybe right now you can’t quite
find a hopeful image to wrap your head around, but
can you have faith in the unimaginable future?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Add joy to
your day proactively and you’ll avoid unwanted
overindulgences. Trying new things counts, too, as
it’s possible that you have yet to meet the activity or
interest that will bring you much continued pleasure.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). When territorial
instincts are triggered, all bets are off. Such issues hit
at a primal and irrational level of being and will not be
settled through logic -- but you’ll find other ways to
harmonize the situation.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The important things
will take longer than you expect because they are more
involved than they seem on the surface. This pace is
perfect, though; it gives you time to develop skills to
meet the complexity of the situation.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 13). Magic happenings
will encourage you along a path. But this is not
predestined. You decide what you want to learn, then
the right teacher will come into your life. Advanced
levels of your journey feature a valuable bestowment.
It’s not the actual object but what it represents to you
that will make a difference. Pisces and Virgo adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 2, 22, 1, 28 and 40.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2022 Thoughts for a Mars Passage
As Mars crosses into ethereal Pisces, try this one on:
Nothing is indispensable. Everything can be released.
With this attitude, you won’t be so worried about loss that
you cling to things. Because you don’t hold on too tightly
to any relationship or material item, everything breathes.
All ties are loose enough to blow in the breeze of freedom.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’ve tried to slot
someone into a pattern that suited you, and it worked for
a while, but ultimately each must answer to individual
needs... an inevitability of life.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). People can be
unpredictable, erratic and irresponsible. That doesn’t
make them less lovable to you, but it does mean you’ll
have to think ahead or work around them to achieve
your desired outcome.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You will avoid the
frustration that inevitably comes with not getting what
you want by simply not wanting it. Your cosmic gift of
the day is the amazing ability to just drop it and instead
desire something right within reach.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). No one learns alone.
“Self-taught” is a myth. Learning begins by watching,
listening to and following the teacher. Today’s teacher
may be a book, a principle or an unfolding event. You’ll
soak up all you need to know.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You usually don’t like it
when people who don’t need help ask for it anyway. But
who has the time to make sure each request is legit?
Today it won’t matter. You’ll help others and you’re the
one who will end up feeling lucky.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your problems are not to
blame for what ails you. Rather, these complications are
what will grow you into a more creative and resourceful
person. The things you must do to survive and thrive
will be the source of your strength.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Those who make excuses
or pass blame deprive themselves of the chance to learn
the right way to do a task. You recognize this in others
and avoid making the same mistake.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Out of modesty
and social grace, you don’t always highlight your
accomplishments and all you’ve got going on. However,
right now there’s someone near who will benefit from
your work. So, talk it up!
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Growth takes
time, but it doesn’t take forever. You’ve been patient,
nurturing and positive, yet things haven’t formed to the
shape you needed them to be. Nothing is so essential
you can’t let it go. Start over new.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). The task at hand is
something you would do even if you were not paid to.
Even so, don’t offer it for free. People will value it better
if they pay for it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Whatever you’re
working with, make it your own. Forget about what a
thing was designed to do. What do you need it to do?
You’ll get completely original results because you’re not
bound to the rules.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). To live in harmony
is as much about hitting the right tones as it is about
getting the timing right. You pace yourself to strike the
right mood with the right moment.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 14). Implausible
happenings blossom in your life, so don’t limit your
wishing to that which seems reasonable. You’ll be dealing
in realms that don’t exist at the time of this reading, so
send your hopes to the stars and your plans to the outer
edges, and keep pushing. New scenes are painted with
the vitality of your passion. Virgo and Scorpio adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 1, 44, 38, 9 and 5.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS