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Saturday, August 13, 2022
Universal Freestyle 33 by Tracy Gray
Universal Crossword edited by David Steinberg
ACROSS
1 Website for film
lovers
5 Space Mountain,
e.g.
9 Point-of-view
columns
14 Center of a pear
15 Vaping device
16 Turn on one foot
17 “It’s clear to me!”
18 Pizza type not
named after a
drink
20 Close by
21 Celery topped
with peanut butter
and raisins
22 Narcissistic
fitness fanatic
24 Word before
“boss” or “bull”
25 1953 Western
nominated for two
Oscars
26 Patronized, as a
cafe
30 Golden-haired
32 Flip-flop
34 Record label or
TV brand
35 Cosmetic blush
36 Name hidden in
“colonel”
37 Embellish with
rhinestones, say
39 Muscles targeted
by crunches
40 Bluesy singer
Bonnie
42 Muddles through
43 Loses it
45 Cookie sheet
handlers
47 Misspell
something, e.g.
48 Relaxes in a
recliner
51 Pressing items?
55 Theater award
whose name
sounds like two
letters
56 Fuels oneself for
a marathon
57 Nasty
58 French farewell
59 “Yellowstone”
rating
60 Farm building
that’s often red
61 Cookie sheet
handler
62 Pumpkin morsel
63 “Wait there,” to a
dog trainer
DOWN
1 Cinnamon roll
glaze
2 Amble
3 Three-story
abode for Barbie
4 Drinking game
contraption
5 Return to a lower
court
6 Lead-in to a blunt
truth
7 ___ rice (Cajun
dish)
8 Omelet
ingredients
9 Warmup bands,
e.g.
10 One may say
“Shiver me
timbers!”
11 Wicked
12 Inflict upon
13 The deer in The
Hartford’s logo,
e.g.
19 “Let’s go driving!”
23 Baltimore-based
sports apparel
giant
26 “Act like I’m not
here”
27 Gets a rapper
going
28 One of about 843
in Central Park
29 Gets the bronze?
30 Statement that
may be “humble”
31 Wolf, in Juarez
33 “Shot” or “spot”
lead-in
38 Failed internet
ventures
41 March follower
44 Navy builder’s
nickname
46 “Such a shame”
48 Verona vino
49 “Level Up” singer
50 Singer Chesney
or Loggins
51 What forms over
a scrape
52 “And there you
have it!”
53 “Dead Wake”
author Larson
54 Decays
Plan On It by Adrian Johnson
Universal Crossword edited by Amanda Rafkin
ACROSS
1 Poses a question
5 Keister
9 “... and make it
snappy!”
13 “Checkmate!”
14 Microsoft
spreadsheet
software
16 Lavish love (on)
17 ___ chicken
nuggets
18 Forehead
adornment
19 Radiate
20 Light, folded
breakfast dishes
23 Sex on the Beach
destinations
24 (Don’t cut me off
like that!)
25 Disconnected
27 Star in a movie,
maybe?
29 Ramadan-ending
festival
32 Portable mobile
devices
34 Fried chicken
discard
35 Exams that aren’t
written
36 End of many
superhero names
37 Word before “leaf”
or “syrup”
38 Keep your ___
about you
39 Hair removal
product?
41 ___ Day (rhyming
Hawaiian
celebration)
42 Comedian
Davidson
43 Atlas close-up
44 Suckling site
46 Moisturizing
butter type
47 “I’m on board!,”
and a phonetic
hint to the
collective starts
of 20-, 32- and
39-Across
54 Walk through
water
55 Like some glass
and fuses
56 Super funny
person
57 “Excuse me ...”
58 “I have ___ the
plums that were
in the icebox”
59 “___ Enchanted”
(2004 film)
60 Unable to hang
out right now, say
61 Filmmaker Nair
62 A praying mantis
has five
27 Ridiculous
28 Car door ding
30 Geirangerfjord,
e.g.
31 A few bucks?
DOWN
32 Monk’s hood
1 Helper
33 Fail to mention
2 Big gulp
34 Source of a
3 ___ Valkyrie
model airplane’s
(MCU role for
wood
Tessa Thompson) 37 Impressionist
4 Ammo in a winter
Claude
fight
39 Leaves alone
5 Fresh start
40 Singer honored
6 Ways out of
as a national hero
mazes
of Barbados
7 Skin condition
42 ___ thai
8 Take a mulligan
45 Thanos, to the
on
Avengers
9 “Set Fire to the
46 Hangout spot for
Rain” singer
the Ninja Turtles
10 “The nerve!”
47 Forensic
11 Butting heads
evidence collector
12 Parakeets and
48 Island home to
cats, e.g.
the Wai’anae
15 Dances under a
Range
bar
49
Glitz’s
partner
21 Angels’
50 Round flatbread
instruments
51 Like skin in need
22 Snakelike fish
of blotting sheets
25 Lofty abode
52 Sleeper agent
26 Trite,
53 “Wheels down”
meaningless
guesses: Abbr.
statements
East Oregonian
A9
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 2022 Planets Warn Against Pettiness
The tension of the sun in opposition to Saturn is offset
by a lucky trine of Mars and Pluto. It’s easier to drop
little fights when you are looking at the big picture. So
many of the details are matters of preference that do
not really affect much in the larger scheme of things.
It’s a configuration urging us to shun pettiness and
strive for compassion.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). To avoid conflict or
spare feelings, you may keep some things to yourself.
This, you think, is for the good of the relationship.
However, if the other person senses you are withholding
information, suspicions will work against you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Prioritizing style over
substance is a precarious game and might even be a
precursor to calamity. To stay on the safe side, check
the integrity of things before you invest your money,
time or heart in them.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). If you surrounded
yourself with clones, you would have too much of
the same strength and be blighted by your collective
weakness. Diversity is necessary for success. You’ll
operate powerfully in a diverse group.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Does someone seem
to be repenting for sins that haven’t been committed
yet? You’ll pause to consider who you’re dealing with.
Your accurate assessments of human nature will save
you time and trouble.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Because you are so strong,
the frail and fragile will be drawn to you. Those
with an obvious weakness will have fascinating and
useful strengths. You will learn from a relationship of
complementary talents.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It’s a day of tricky
problems with simple but not obvious solutions. Try
approaching the matter from the opposite direction,
inside out or upside down. Alternative views refresh
your thinking.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The distance between
people expands and contracts within a particular range. It’s
as though you are tethered buoys floating in the sea. The
waves will move you together and apart but no farther than
the cord allows.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Accept yourself. You’re
doing your best, and when you get on your own side, you’ll
do even better. Don’t worry too much about the minutiae of
your interactions. You give your attention genuinely and
wholly, and that’s what’s felt.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Where you once
saw a problem, you’ll now see something different -- a
challenge or curiosity, an opportunity or a chance to
reroute the map. A difference in perspective is all the
difference you need.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You’ll have no need to
create a show. Your moment to shine will naturally appear
over the course of a job. The deeper you dedicate to the
work, the brighter you’ll be when the attention swings to
you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Preferences are highly
subjective and personal. The inherent goodness or badness
of a thing, if such a value even exists, will have little to do
with people’s choices. Seek understanding over judgment.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). There will be no suitable
substitute for being in the same time and place with people.
Nothing you can read, watch on a screen or hear in a
headphone can even come close to the real-life experience.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Aug. 14). Your need for visual
and emotional harmony will be served with beautiful
environments and upgrades in your daily surroundings.
In the professional realm, you’ll be paid to understand
what baffles the others, and you’ll earn a prize acting on
that knowledge. More highlights: a family wedding and a
surprising peace offering. Aries and Sagittarius adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 10, 4, 44, 18 and 15.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS
HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY MATHIS
MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2022 Earthy Mercury Trine
No one, not even the most charismatic person on
the planet, can always be the superstar energy every
single endeavor. When the energy is hard to drum
up, at least make sure you’re bringing the kindness.
Character counts more than personality any day of the
week, and you’ll be especially keen to look for it under
the earthy Mercury trine.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). You treat everyone
differently because everyone is, in fact, different. You
have an amazing ability to communicate with each
person in the way they are most likely to understand
and enjoy.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). When someone
impresses you, you’ll let them know in subtle and not
so subtle ways. They feel they’ve finally been seen.
You feel you’re getting to know someone truly unique.
Special connections get made.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). It feels good to be
helpful, and there will be no shortage of takers for
your kind of assistance. As you focus on the needs of
others, you just may find that you’re creating a niche for
yourself. Eventually, you’ll be known and paid for this.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll have efficient
conversations with those you know very well, skipping
formalities and getting right to the point. There’s
comfort in sharing a connection that people outside
the relationship couldn’t possibly understand.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You’re working on the kind
of endeavor that will never be fully finished. Deciding
when to move on from the project will be a matter of
compromise. You’ll push it as far as the time period
allows and then let it go to have a life of its own.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It will be most
satisfying to imply a thing and see who picks up what
you’re throwing down. This kind of connection is a
signal that you share a reality and a sensibility. You
see each other and bond in commonality.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your happiness comes
from celebrating good sensations -- warm skin,
muscles moving, the body alive. In your moments of
gratitude, everything else feels like a bonus atop the
tremendous gift of being alive.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Attraction has its
own logic, which it keeps close to the vest and refuses
to share. You’re better off accepting your attraction as
a given and then moving on to the business of how to
best use or manage it.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your appetite
for knowledge is mighty, and the method that gives you
the most now is reading. As Groucho Marx apparently
said, “Outside of a dog, books are a man’s best friend.
Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). In some regard,
you feel like you’re undertrained, outside of the loop
and just getting by on a wing and a prayer. And while it
seems like a lonely notion indeed, more people share
it than you’d believe. Reach out.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You were taught
to respect your elders, but you learned to respect
your youngers on your own. The very young teach
with the eyes of innocence. The older ones will lend
technological savvy and a fascinating world view.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Once an algorithm
gets involved with you, you’ll be served up what the
robot thinks you’ll like. This works so well for you that
sometimes you forget how your tastes and potentials
are vaster than any robot could possibly service.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Aug. 15). You’re faithful, loyal and
constant, and will experience the security of being treated in
kind -- plus, zings of excitement keep the adventure flowing.
You’ll develop a style that works for you, and you’ll operate with
greater comfort and confidence as you find it. More highlights:
a financial win and a stellar endorsement. Libra and Scorpio
adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 18, 3, 33 and 48.
Universal SUDOKU
SOLUTIONS