PUZZLES
Thursday, July 7, 2022
Built to Scale by Chloe Revery
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Thorny flowers
6 World capital for
fjord explorers
10 Pub projectile
14 “I give!”
15 Fishing platform
16 Notion
17 *Decorative
border of many
bridal veils
19 Melancholy
20 Poe’s “radiant
maiden”
21 Crop up
22 “High” waters
24 *Garden section
for a leafy green
27 Small
salamanders
29 Those, in Toledo
30 Radio host Glass
31 Big game settings
35 BBQ rod
39 Sty dweller
40 *Marred with
graffiti, e.g.
42 “___ to Dirt”
(Sharon Olds
poem)
43 Casual meeting?
45 Relative of yoga
pants
46 Cacophony
47 Human rights
lawyer Clooney
49 Mexican street
food items
51 *Extra charge at
an airline check-
in counter
57 Agatha Christie
title?
58 Straighten
59 Rite sites
61 Omani currency
62 Symbols on a
score, or what
all letters in the
starred clues’
answers could be
66 Good name for a
DNA researcher?
67 Jazzed about
68 Link with
69 Tolkien’s tree
creatures
70 Expense
71 Icee insert
DOWN
1 Massage
2 “You’re Still the
___” (Shania
Twain hit)
3 Ne’er-do-wells
4 Like Kourtney,
among the
Kardashian
sisters
5 “I feel ___” (“You
really get me”)
6 Word after “soap”
or “space”
7 “Ice Ice Baby,” to
“Play That Funky
Music”
8 Femur’s limb
9 Vein resource
10 Go off-topic
11 Make up lines
12 Find a new
purpose for
13 Brought under
control
18 Medic
21 Long, long ___
22 Scissors sounds
23 Hair-raising
25 Place to see
umbrellas on a
sunny day
26 Helpful trait
28 Feeling blue
32 Mark with a sale
price, say
33 Green way to
submit taxes
34 Pester
36 Audio show host
37 “Head over
heels,” e.g.
38 “Bear” has a
different one than
“bore”
41 Annual reason for
lost sleep: Abbr.
44 Bickers at the
bazaar
48 ___ bun
(hairstyle)
50 Skillful
51 Flat-bottomed
boat
52 From another
planet
53 “Jack and the
Beanstalk” figure
54 Refuses to put
away any dishes?
55 “Middlemarch”
writer George
56 List-ending abbr.
60 Industrious
insects
62 Karaoke prop
63 Tres - dos
64 In-flight guess,
briefly
65 Boar’s pen pal
East Oregonian
A13
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 2022 A Lesson from Jupiter
Taller people have farther to fall, richer people
have more to lose and the powerful few are always
vulnerable to being conquered by their numerous
underlings. Maybe you’re not exactly where you want
to be, but there’s a unique advantage of your current
position. This is the lesson of Mercury’s square to
Jupiter, the planet of abundance.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You may do what’s
expected of you, but you’re just as likely to do the
opposite of that because today you’re a rebel. You take
pleasure in the surprise of others. You delight in their
raised eyebrows and luxuriate in their laughter.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). A task feels like a
slog, and you’ll be tempted to quit at what seems like
the halfway point. But you can’t know what the halfway
point is until you get to the end and measure back.
Don’t quit. You’re closer to success than you think.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Success can be scary.
If you do well, you’ll be in unknown territory. Grapple
with that realization by remembering how often you’ve
faced the unknown and not only managed it, but
eventually learned to own it.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). It feels good to solve
people’s problems and to experience their relief. You’ll
underpromise and overdeliver, a surefire success
formula. Though you don’t expect your generosity to
be repaid, it will be.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’ll take measures to
counteract artificiality. You’ll resist those who would
have you purchase what you don’t need. Revisit the
rituals that remind you of your values and connect you
to who you are and where you come from.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Knowing a lot never
made anyone wise. You’re very experienced in a
certain realm so it’s harder for you to look at things
with a beginner’s mind, and yet you do this to fantastic
effect today, elevating your work to a new level.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). While it’s natural to
want to avoid negative feelings, you’re also not afraid
to process them. You recognize that your feelings are a
reaction to a thought. You’ll change your thought, and
a feeling will change too.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It will be far better to
go forward in blind optimism than to be critical of the
early stages of a project, thereby making it impossible
to gain momentum. For now, enthusiasm is more
important than getting things absolutely right.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Momentum
wins, so don’t let fine details hang you up. Neither
should you worry about who is going to approve or
how your work is measuring up. You don’t have to get
it all perfect, just good enough to move forward.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll spend
a lucky hour focusing exclusively on what needs to
happen to reach your goal. A good plan saves time.
More awareness allows you to do things with less
effort. Caution: so-called free things can be costly.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You want to shine
in a certain someone’s eyes, though your success
does not hinge on the opinion of one person. Even
when you get the approval you want, keep building
your core of fans; group support will be best.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Being around people
can give you energy or drain you of it, depending on
your mood. Today’s small doses of mostly delightful
social interaction represent the ideal scenario, as just
a little fellowship can go a long way.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (July 8). Your approach to
goals will change. You’re used to plotting out your
own challenges and meeting them heroically, but
this year other people will make plans that include
you and you’ll shine in a different and new way. More
highlights: A spontaneous risk, a bag of money and
the expansion of your family tree. Capricorn and
Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 10, 7,
15, 5 and 11.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
Give Me More! by Winston Emmons
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
Universal Crossword edited by Amanda Rafkin
SATURDAY, JULY 9, 2022 Sagittarius Moon Musing
ACROSS
1 Some shirts have
one built in
4 Instance of fraud
8 Valentine’s Day
flower, often
12 Big jump
13 Pondered aloud
15 Filled with wonder
16 A singular time
17 Eat away at
18 “Super cool!”
19 *Documents
on who’s been
naughty and
nice?
22 Big ___,
California
23 Madison Square
Garden, e.g.
24 Word after
“Mother” or “silly”
28 Pyromaniac’s
crime
30 *.,,,?
32 Color that
represents anger
34 Court
35 Brouhaha
36 Elite athlete
40 “Blitzkrieg Bop”
band
43 Its HQ is in
Langley, Va.
44 “Scream” director
Craven
46 Goal of some
sunbathers
47 *Trendy isms?
51 Do a queen’s job
55 Follow
56 Furious
58 ___-Magnon
59 *Poetry
competition
hosted by Nana?
62 Piece of dough
in a French
restaurant?
65 “Piece of cake,”
e.g.
66 Wee bit
67 Genesis twin
68 Compact
69 Feels badly about
70 Time to give up?
71 Bring up, or
something to
bring up
72 Cards on lanyards
DOWN
1 1959 film with
chariots
2 Formula One
competitors
3 Highest point
4 Defame
5 Earned a trip to
the swear jar
6 At this point
7 Go-between
8 Price of freedom?
9 “You ___ me big
time!”
10 Briny expanse
11 Summer hours in
D.C.
12 Tons of
14 “Barb and Star
Go to Vista
___ Mar” (2021
comedy)
20 French painter
Edouard
21 Freudian concept
25 Country whose
flag has crossed
swords over a
khanjar
26 “No Ordinary
Love” singer
27 Those, in Spanish
29 Areas for surgical
residents: Abbr.
31 Layer of stain
33 Top ___
Entertainment
(record label)
36 Really feel
yesterday’s
workout
37 Pride member
38 Back muscles, for
short
39 String around the
finger, e.g.
41 Members of some
stable families?
42 “___ more song!”
(“Encore!”)
45 Fish in a tin
48 Where a baseball
team sits
49 “___ the fields we
go ...”
50 Savory baked
pastry
52 Apple storage
service
53 Drain covers
54 “That’s enough!”
... and a hint to
the origins of the
starred clues’
answers
57 More
domesticated
60 Assistance
61 iPhone speaker?
62 Fish in a
caterpillar roll
63 Function
64 Competed in a 5K
If you’re on-trend, you swim with the tide. It’s an
easygoing vibe compared to the responsibility of
trendsetting, which is swimming faster than the tide.
That makes you the part of the wave that first comes
crashing to the shore. Capitalizing on trend equals
waiting on the shore with a lemonade stand, ready to
sell a drink to anything the tide brings in.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). A foreign place will
capture your curiosity. Whether you travel there in
person or go there in your mind through study, media
or fantasy, the experience will be a thrill. When it’s
time to leave, you’ll take something of it with you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You’ll disagree
with someone and still basically get along. You
communicate well, which sometimes means not
saying a word, and always means chiming in with
topics likely to uplift.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Though you’ve met
people with similar senses of humor, it’s the ones you
knew when that sense was developing who have not a
similar sense but the same sense of humor. Reconnect
with them.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Remember when you
were in survival mode? You’re thankful not to be there
and yet the lessons are still relevant. Survival mode
has its advantages. Attention is paid to what matters.
Nonsense assumes its proper size.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Things have gotten
convoluted. You may not even be sure how you got
here, but the next step is simpler than it seems.
There’s something you need to stop and something
you need to start. You sense what it is. It’s time.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Here comes a call
to action. Don’t wonder if you have what it takes,
just answer the call in the affirmative, or better yet,
get immediately into action without saying a word.
Pretending to be brave leads to real bravery.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The research you do
before you leap will save you from a dish you don’t
prefer. Peruse the menu of life before you order with
a special eye to the price. Events, jobs and people
can be much more “expensive” than one might guess.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You don’t seek
out difficult people and neither do you avoid them,
because you want what they teach, even if the lesson
is just how to be patient or how not to live. Difficult
people hone your humanity.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). The journey
won’t always add up, make sense or proceed in
a straight line. If it did, you’d become bored and
disheartened. You thrive with novelty and surprise.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). It follows that
anything assisting you to discover and explore the
unexpressed self is a real blessing. Enlarge your circle
of influence through education and conversation.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). It may feel like you
are singing a beautiful song to people with no ear for
music. Keep singing anyway. To expose people to
something new is a gift. People need to hear a thing
many times to understand it.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). To admit your fear
and uncertainty takes a special sort of superpower, the
one that is almost never lauded amongst the Titans,
and that is the superpower of vulnerability. Only the
strong can perform such a courageous feat.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (July 9). This year is a fun
surprise box, and you’ll adapt to any circumstance.
You’ll look for opportunity no matter what. Through
repetition and training you become a talent to be
reckoned with. More highlights: a mystery solved with
a treasured friend; a message to the world sent in an
unusual way; a memoir that makes an impact. Gemini
and Taurus adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 20,
21, 8, 17 and 12.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS