STAR SIGNS

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Yourrelationships are not equippedwith a remote control. It isn’t possible to pause the action orfast-forward to skip the less ap-pealing parts.TAURUS (April 20-May 20):Compromising your princi-ples could be costly. It may betempting to avoid a financialresponsibility or to find a wayto wiggle out of an obligation.GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Youmay distinctly feel the pressureof being stuck between the rock and hard place. Those in charge may not overlook yourmistakes unless you humblyagree with their ideas.CANCER (June 21-July 22):Don’t take the little tiffs and tri-als of everyday life too person-ally — they can serve to releasepressures in small increments,allowing more major problemsto be avoided.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You might experience a collision ofwills that puts dent in your ego.A difference of opinion where money is concerned might become intense. This is not agood time to make a move.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Act-ing without forethought byasking someone out on a date,accepting a dare, or making a spur-of-the-moment pur-chase might be regretted in thefuture.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A dia-mond never shines until it hasbeen subjected to the abrasive-ness of a buffering agent. Trials of everyday life can act like apolishing cloth that gives youthe means to sparkle.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Per-ception is puzzling. Under thenumerous superficial layers ofouter appearances everyone isjust the same. You might thinkthat someone is much better ormuch worse than the reality.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21): You may meet someone worthy of being written up inthe chronicles of crankiness. Other people might have verydifferent ideas about how toconduct business. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Get updated or upgraded.Some issues may prove that you need further training or education. It may be necessaryto have letters after your name,a certificate or a diploma. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):Don’t count your chickens be-fore they hatch. You should notmake major credit purchaseswith a credit card or make promises you aren’t certainyou can keep. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):Steady as she goes. Don’t over-react to criticism or think youcan get away with playinghooky from the job. The issues that come into focus might hide some inconvenient truths.IF JUNE 1 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY:All good things come to thosewho wait and it is up to you to wait during the upcoming sixto eight weeks. Put your planson hold and don’t begin any-thing new since luck is in shortsupply. Do not get into debt oroverextend yourself, and avoidmaking waves.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2016

— Jeraldine Saunders

ACROSS 1 Put two

and two together

4 Crazes 10 Driver or

wedge 14 Bond 15 Blake of

“Gunsmoke” 16 Super-duper 17 Start of a

quote by Dr. Seuss

19 Ocean’s rise and fall

20 Countries 21 Measure of

explosive power

23 Gent 24 Go right! 26 Work up 27 German

steel city 29 Schooner

fi ller 31 Singer Eydie 34 Tree fl uid 36 “Won’t you

be my neighbor” man

38 Inhuman creatures

41 Part 2 of quote

43 Chip scoop 44 Glandular

organ 46 Neil Simon’s

nickname 48 Seat at the

bar 49 Ump’s cohort 51 Egypt’s

Anwar 55 Roosevelt’s

pooch 57 Ring bearer? 59 Perform a

task again 60 Fill up again 63 Trinket 65 __ Stanley

Gardner 66 End of quote 68 Tall tale teller

69 With little effort

70 Bauble 71 Source of

archery bows 72 Vestiges 73 Sullivan and

Asner

DOWN 1 Without delay 2 Washington

and Shore 3 River

formations 4 BLT spread 5 Mingled

in with 6 Queasiness 7 Business

abbr. 8 West of

“Batman”

9 Even more rational

10 L.L. Bean publication

11 Hung around

12 Help menu option

13 __ around the block

18 Holy cow! 22 Male escorts 25 Garden

shade, perhaps

28 Aircraft engine enclosure

30 Miscalculate 32 CAT scan

alternative 33 Letters for

Kreskin?

35 Quantity of gold

37 Fishing pole

38 NASA outpost

39 New Year in Hanoi

40 Summons dodger

42 Also not 45 Lions, at

times 47 Wedge-

shaped mark

50 Textile 52 Great

fl ood 53 Worshipped 54 Tribal

emblems 56 So far 58 Biathlon

weapon 60 Count (on) 61 Smallest

Great Lake 62 Rime 64 Purchases 67 Dos Passos

trilogy

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.

6/1/16

A DAILY CROSSWORD

PHOEBE & HER UNICORN

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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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