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

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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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