ACROSS 1 Snorer’s peril 6 Small

European barracuda

10 Type of sch. 14 Object 15 Ballesteros

of golf 16 Run in the

heat? 17 Business

expense 20 Boyfriend 21 Beige hues 22 Tell’s canton 24 Ewe’s call 27 “Mama’s

Family” character

30 Ceremonial marker

34 Arizona city 35 Very dry, as

champagne 36 Compass dir. 37 Cliff or Oscar 41 Weasel

sound? 44 Mil. branch 45 Feral pooch 49 Orthodoxy 53 DeLuise fi lm 54 Joanne

of “All the King’s Men”

55 Aging vessel 56 I give up! 58 Nary a one 61 Crash

course? 67 Lupino and

Cantor 68 Plane-crash

investigation grp.

69 Moon lander 70 Vessel for

violets 71 Obtains 72 Editor’s

marks

DOWN 1 Org. of

Djokovic 2 Group of wds.

3 Steel-gray metallic element

4 “The Neverending Story” author

5 Water of Mexico

6 Booming jet 7 Canadian prov. 8 Bacchanalian

cry 9 Dance fee? 10 Portion 11 Surrendering

by treaty 12 Hwy. sign 13 Letters

before AA? 18 Caribbean

island 19 Shank of

the leg

22 Instructors’ grp.

23 Canape topper

25 If you’re lucky

26 Bombard-ment

28 24-hr. information source

29 Wide shoe width

31 “Car Talk” broadcaster

32 “__ Gracias” 33 Trying to get 38 Old-time

premarital custom

39 Rationers of WWII

40 Nothing at all

41 Cut of an agt. 42 Sound of

delight 43 Souls from

Greece 46 Branch out 47 Explorer

Johnson 48 Clock-setting

std. 50 Ribbed like

leaves 51 Business

letter abbr. 52 Trevor of

London theatre

57 Feminine ending

59 Some poems

60 Without ice 61 Fourth of

MMXVI 62 Author

LeShan 63 Adherent’s

suffi x 64 Archaic:

abbr. 65 Three-letter

sandwich 66 Affi rmative

comment

Answers to all of today’s puzzles are on the comics pages. The New York Times crossword and the bridge col-umn appear in the classifi eds. See A1 index for page number.

11/27/14

A DAILY CROSSWORDSTAR SIGNS

ARIES (March 21-April 19): ThePilgrims followed their dreams to a new land and you can fol-low your dreams, too. If the holiday interferes with your bill paying routines, you couldhave a rude awakening.TAURUS (April 20-May 20): En-joy being surrounded by lovedones even if some are a trifletouchy. Be ready to roll withthe punches if others seem un-predictable. If you’ve made apromise, don’t back down.GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Ride herd on your friends so that amaverick doesn’t upset your plans. Someone might surprise you by being impolite or show-ing up late and empty handed. CANCER (June 21-July 22):Make a list of all the memories and things for which you aregrateful. You’ll never be at aloss for kind things to say if you keep an accounting of all the good people in your life.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Personalholiday rituals can be a com-fort to you at a family feast.However, you may find room in your heart to add some newcustoms this year. Welcome achance to make small changes.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Youmay become restless if stuck at the dinner table or in front ofthe TV too long. A walk in thewoods or a game of cards might break the monotony.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Main-tain a wait-and-see attitude when making decisions about important matters, but give into whims on small ones. A sig-nificant other might surprise you with a change of plans.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Ifyou can’t spend time with fam-ily today, make a phone call.The few minutes spent chat-ting long distance might be worth more than you can ever know. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21): It will be difficult to punc-ture the balloon of your happymood under these stars. But if you’re too lazy or too eagerto blame your mistakes on someone else, fireworks could explode.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):If you become obsessed with a football game, a bet, a TV show, or anything else, you may ig-nore common courtesies. Re-member to be a gracious host or guest. Don’t talk shop today!AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):Overly-high expectations may have put you in a difficult situ-ation. A significant other mayintuitively give you the miss-ing puzzle piece or show extraaffection.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Apartner or companion could make mountains out of mole-hills from sheer boredom, so find constructive activities be-fore things get out of hand. IF NOVEMBER 27 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: Late February through early March is the besttime to start new projects, dis-play your leadership abilities,or ask others to help you insome important way. Even ifsome of your preconceived no-tions are challenged in May, you’ll still have time to rest.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2014

— Jeraldine Saunders

SUDOKU PUZZLEComplete the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box containsevery digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.

STONE SOUP

ADAM@HOME

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

DAILY JUMBLE