STAR SIGNS
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You don’t think life is a joke, but ap-preciate humor. You might begiven an opportunity to showoff your leadership skills orto rise to a higher level at theworkplace. TAURUS (April 20-May 20):Forgive and forget. Apply yourown special brand of finesseto smooth out frayed nerves.Don’t feel pressured to work on your taxes today. GEMINI (May 21-June 20):Keep an ear to the ground to stay grounded. It is a good timeto widen your network of influ-ential friends and gain insightsfrom perceptive people.CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ed-ucation can be the key that un-locks all the right doors. It maybe wise to consider changing your habits if they cause you tolag behind. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You are holding all the winning cards.It is a very good time to startsomething new or to set plansinto motion. Accept conflicts with a charitable attitude.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):Roll the dice and win the pot.You may be tempted to take achance on someone or some-thing. This could be a lucky dayto follow your heart. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Alli-ances may be shifting aroundyou and it is wise to get a feel for who is hot and who is not. Your creative juices may beginto flow if you make a list of yourideas.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):Hang tough. Apply physical or mental muscle to organiz-ing your schedule or your workand there will be a big payoff. Aspecial someone admires yourdetermination.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21): Don’t forget to take along your sense of humor. Take the bull by the horns and get thosetough and unpleasant jobscompleted. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):You have the talents necessaryto make it big in the world.You are highly competitive andin sync with the ways of bigmoney and power. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):It is better to be the tortoise than the hare. To make a good impression on others take thetime to be sincere and to ex-plain your views completely. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You may be challenged to maintainroutines. Don’t cling to old hab-its that hold you back from be-ing the best you can be. At thesame time don’t throw awayreliable structures.IF APRIL 1 IS YOUR BIRTH-DAY: You can enjoy a romanticrelationship during the nextthree to four weeks. In May you may become more focusedon financial security. You canachieve your dreams if you arewilling to work hard and makestrategic plans. Sidestep crucialdecisions or promises during June when you should do yourbest to be responsible and ethi-cal. Plan to put your heartfeltdesires into being in July when you will have the most assis-tance from the universe.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2016
— Jeraldine Saunders
ACROSS 1 Involuntary
spasm 4 Stored away,
as grain 10 Process fl our 14 Pub pour 15 Make
feasible 16 End of
switch? 17 Special
parliament group
20 Taiwan Strait island
21 Infamous Helmsley
22 Folk-song abbr.
25 ER staffers 26 CIA precursor 29 Sheepskin 34 Geneticist’s
concern 35 Italian sauce 36 Jeweled
coronet 37 Fungi sacs 39 TV oldie 42 “Nana” star
Anna 43 Rights grp. 45 Mongolia’s
place 47 SASE, for
example 48 Paul Hogan
movie 52 Is endowed
with 53 Novelist
Kesey 54 Planet-
fi nding grp. 55 “Grand
Canyon Suite” composer Grofe
57 Missouri feeder
61 Flaming dessert 66 Artistic
inspiration 67 “I Love Lucy”
production company
68 Entire amount
69 Without work 70 Botanical
swellings 71 ‘60s radical
org.
DOWN 1 Australian isl. 2 Lowest parts
of small intestines
3 Welshman or Gael
4 Freer from danger
5 $ from a bank 6 “Hotel du __” 7 Ancient
Greek coin 8 Fudd and
Gantry
9 Wilson of “Sanford and Son”
10 Stiff hair 11 NYC subway
line 12 Opponent 13 Shoe tip 18 O.T. book 19 Picture in
picture 23 Having wings 24 Venetian
magistrate 26 Spoke
pompously 27 At peace 28 Dead com-
munication 29 Local
bank, e.g. 30 “Broken
Arrow” actor
31 Chocolate trees
32 Back-country 33 “Saving
Private Ryan” extras
38 Trucking regu-lating agcy.
40 Applies 41 Pheasant’s
brood 44 Gambling game 46 Public vehicle 49 Scoff at 50 Without a
doubt
51 Unless, in court
55 Emancipated 56 Latin being 58 For pity’s
sake! 59 Anglo-
Saxon tax 60 Sushi fi sh 61 901 62 Newman
movie 63 U.S. immi-
grant’s class 64 “Lord __” 65 Tail of a fi b?
Answers to all of today’s puzzles are on the comics pages. The New York Times crossword and the bridge column appear in the classifi eds. See A1 index for page number.
4/1/16
A DAILY CROSSWORD
PHOEBE & HER UNICORN
ADAM@HOME
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
SUDOKU PUZZLEComplete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 boxcontains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.
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