PUZZLES
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Joint Effort by Sean Ziebarth
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Rumba or samba
6 They’re big in
Hollywood
10 Make small talk
14 Water brand
sourced in the
French Alps
15 Mother of Jesus
16 Took a bike,
perhaps
17 “You make a ___
point”
18 One with a
password
19 In the know about
20 Schmooze
23 Kind of bed with
a frame overhead
26 Sauna site
27 “___ what I
mean?”
28 Vital energy, in
Chinese medicine
29 Beach retreat?
32 Lumbers (along)
34 Where to spice
up nachos
37 Bulk beer buy
38 Have some
drinks
42 Poetic tribute
2 “Selma” director
DuVernay
3 Absolutely
nothing
4 City in Egypt or
Illinois
5 Eventually arrive
(at)
6 Flightless birds
7 Deep wound
8 Cookies with an
amazing variety
of flavors
9 Thick liquid in
Italian soda
10 “Oh, shoot!”
11 “Knock on wood”
12 Was wild about
13 There are 12
basic ones for
English verbs
21 “Ta-ta!”
22 Spots for clip-on
mics
23 IV amounts
24 Captain in a
whale of a tale
25 Egyptian river
30 Stuffed and
steamed bun
31 Painter’s tool
DOWN
1 Patel of “The Last 33 Letters before
QIA+
Airbender”
43 Jessica Alba
character also
known as
Invisible Woman
45 Prepares, as tea
48 Animal that
broods
49 Piece of pizza?
50 Favorable vote
51 Tin container?
54 Hurt with an
insult
57 Prepare to
propose
61 Green-lighted
62 “___ bang for
your buck”
63 Sword-forging
block
67 Stereotypical tech
whiz
68 Recess activity
69 Jump ___ (horror
film technique)
70 Dreyer’s, in some
regions
71 Say “Says who?”
to, say
72 Fundamental of a
faith
35 Winter angel
material
36 Builds a second
story, say
37 Enthusiastic
about
39 Wish to undo
40 Exude, like charm
41 Bird with
musician and
flutist varieties
44 In-between size:
Abbr.
45 Former
46 Made a stink?
47 Pizzeria or
taqueria
52 Blowout wins
53 Sherlock’s sister
in a 2020 film
55 Enjoy a big meal
56 It’s seen around
the yard
58 Questions 1, 3, 5,
etc., in a textbook
59 Historic spans
60 Middle C and
others
64 Mover’s vehicle
65 Heated state
66 Rent
Light Meals by Evan Mahnken
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 *Pub beverage
5 Eve’s partner
9 Do some
reconnaissance
14 *$1,000,000,
informally
15 What a rat may
wear
16 Florida’s third
most populous
city
17 *Animation
collectible
18 Where India is
19 “... but maybe I’m
wrong”
20 Trattoria order
made with cutlets
23 “I’m unimpressed”
24 Futbol cheer
25 “Calm down!”
28 Stretch across
31 Disapproving
sounds
35 Kuwaiti leader
36 A close one is
only good in a
barbershop
37 “Little piggy”
38 Grapelike
berry
39 Diet-friendly ...
like 20-Across,
51-Across,
4-Down and
40-Down, as per
the starred clues’
answers?
40 *Miner’s target
41 The, in German
42 Like many a
Juilliard student
43 *Got hitched
44 Therapy visit,
slangily
46 Annoyance
47 *Legumes
Mendel studied
48 Grandparent’s
urging at dinner
50 Hat named for a
Moroccan city
51 Sushi bar order
made with
avocado
59 “Ain’t” alternative
60 Lines up a free
throw
61 Kindle competitor
63 Lamp spirit
64 Part of a wooden
crate
65 Boundary
66 Fragrant
compound
27 ___ dice
(deception game)
28 Oceanfront
29 Treaties
DOWN
30 “Halt,” to a pirate
1 Theater chain
32 Abolitionist
Harriet Beecher
2 Name hidden in
“relieved”
33 Seoul, South ___
3 Palindromic
34 Sunflower
beauty magazine
products
4 Seafood
36 Suddenly pay
restaurant order
attention
made with squid
40 Pizzeria orders
5 Up to one’s ears
often made with
6 *Prefix for “honor”
ricotta
7 *Singer Grande’s 45 Tush
nickname
47 For every
8 *”Cry ___ river!”
49 Chasing
9 Seat for a stand- 50 Observes
up comic
Ramadan
10 Red thing on
51 *Number in a
Oscar night
Bumble profile
11 Luxury hotel
52 *Hi-___ image
chain
53 *Sinusitis doc
12 At the top of
54 Speak hoarsely
13 Gabrielle of
55 “Death on the
“Uncharted”
___” (2022 film)
21 Supervillain
56 Computer debut
Luthor
of 1998
22 Feeling friendless
57
Ore
deposit
25 Scans, like a
58 Theater box
barcode
62 Range of
26 One of three for
the 2022 Oscars
knowledge
67 Chest muscles,
for short
68 Glimpsed
East Oregonian
A11
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2022 Earth Day
Earth Day is different in these urgent times. We’ve
moved from a mindset of remembering to take care
of Mother Earth to fast-tracking all efforts to preserve
the natural world. Today’s auspicious lunar trine to
Mercury works with the agenda. What were once
behavioral afterthoughts are now necessary habits.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). One thing you’ll
be extremely good at is forming friendships and
weaving them into larger networks. This opens many
resources for this weekend’s projects.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Being generous feels
wonderful but don’t cheat yourself, or feelings turn to
shades of loss, sadness, anger and pain. When in
doubt, do nothing until you’re sure about what you
can afford, emotionally and otherwise.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There will be deals
presented to you. Beware of situations where the
money is more important than the work. Tonight will
be like a fast car: safety first, then have a blast.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Group goals should
technically be easier to reach because the work is
divided. Keep in mind that if the work isn’t more or
less equally divided, there will be resentments when
it’s time to divvy up the prize.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll achieve what only
mature people are able to: You’ll be an objective
witness to your own behavior. Feelings are not
puppeteers. You will acknowledge your emotions
without letting them drag you around.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Peer pressure is
a fact of humanity. Wherever people are, there’s a
pressure to conform to their opinions and behaviors.
It’s a good reason to spend as little time as possible
with people who undervalue you.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Stories get
exaggerated, pictures get altered, facts get tampered
with. You’ll get a better sense of things you witness
firsthand, but even then, there are obstacles to
perfect perception.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The logic you
followed before suddenly seems less reliable. You’ll
navigate with something different. An innate knowing
rises up to move you past other kinds of processing.
It’s like the decision is making itself.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You don’t
have to be perfect to be loved, liked or included. You
don’t have to be perfect to be persuasive, effective or
accomplished. You don’t have to be perfect, period.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It’s as though
you can feel someone thinking about you and sense
the subsequent reach out before it happens. It’s
because you are connected at a deep level, working
through a joint karma.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Keep pushing
through the challenge. Things may not come to
fruition as quickly as you’d like, but you can trust
that eventually you will know the deep satisfaction of
having accomplished what you set out to do.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You bring warmth
to interactions. People feel safe with you and there’s
a sense that you’re all on the same side. Where
mysteries and manipulation once existed, someone
will let down their guard and tell you how it really is.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 22). This solar year, it’s
as though the universe knows you are not impressed
with shallow prizes and so will bring you relationships
and situations that are impressive in scale, effect or
loveliness. Community feeds your soul, and you’ll
rack up the goodwill as you make people’s lives easier
and more interesting. Cancer and Libra adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 3, 22, 15, 4 and 18.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2022 Impatient Aquarius Moon
We’re anxious for the future to start. If we were to
build it from scratch, it would take so long that by
the time the thing was finished it would already seem
outdated. The impatient Aquarius moon nags at the
sun first, and as though it weren’t enough, goes on
to hassle Uranus, who suggests we consider ready-
made, plug-and-play, turnkey-type options.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Though your
intention is pure, your motivation has been unreliable.
No worries. You’ll soon pick up momentum and you
won’t need motivation anyway. It will be enough to
simply eliminate resistance.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). It is said that the one
who is lucky is feeling; the one who is unlucky is
thinking. This principle will apply as you feel your
way through the day, collecting delights.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). With some people
you get the feeling that everything is a test. And even
if it’s not, the tone of the relationship hinges on how
you’re performing in each interaction. If you don’t
feel you can relax, the relationship is less than ideal.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’re not trying to
be mysterious, but oversharing isn’t your style. The
way you protect your privacy and keep a world unto
yourself is mighty attractive. They’ll want to know
more, but resist.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You are wise and people
who need your wisdom are attracted to you. Your
policy to help only when asked or when clearly
needed will hold you in good stead.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Sometimes you feel
like an ordinary person doing extraordinary things.
Today you feel like an extraordinary person doing
ordinary things. Those who recognize your talents
will earn a special place in your heart.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your enjoyment of
things goes far beyond their functionality. You’ll
delight in the aesthetic aspect and probably be
willing to pay more for the coolest-looking version.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It might help to
think of the people you deal with today as creatures
with features very different from your own. Smooth
interactions happen when you cater to their specific
abilities and temperaments.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’ve seen
glimpses of an entire dimension hidden inside
things and now you can’t go on as if it doesn’t exist.
There’s no use talking about it to people who can’t
relate. Find the people who can.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Whether or not
it’s fair, to whom much is given, more will be given.
Accept all of what comes your way. And if it’s too
much, later you can pay it forward to those who need
it more than you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Interactions may
get awkward or go all wrong, but it’s nothing to stress
about. Relationships that matter are about the long
game. Also note that the same thing that falls flat
with one person could be a major hit with another.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Most people cannot
successfully fake interest for very long. That’s why
you cherish moments of genuine interest, like the
ones you’ll give and receive today.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 23). When people
have a good time around you, you’ll feel you’ve done
your job. Indeed, it counts as work this year as you’ll
be roundly rewarded for all the smiles, laughter and
comfort you bring to the scene. Also, you’ll pick up
a new skill, apply it and have the means to improve
domestic life for you and yours. Gemini and Scorpio
adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 39, 15, 2 and
40.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS