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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Lib-eral views may stir up somefeedback. Innovative projects may be on your mind. You canovercome brief setbacks. Think things through.TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Fo-cus on the future and put yourbest foot forward. Lady Luck is on your side if you are willingto work hard and roll up yoursleeves. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Be-ing trustworthy and upstand-ing can be your ace in the hole. Maintain the peace and be adependable person others can rely upon. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Themood and politics at the work-place could shift. Remain open-minded, flexible and adapt tochanging conditions. Brain-storm financial matters or getadvice from a professional.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Think ahead and then you can getahead. The blessings of havinga fat piggy bank and pantry fullof food may be enough to sat-isfy you today. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Per-fect timing creates prosperity.Make intelligent plans for thefuture but don’t get caught upin someone else’s fears and ob-ligations. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Flexyour muscles and show offyour skills. The work you per-form now can produce some-thing beautiful and/or finan-cially rewarding. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Ifyou are pushing your agen-das forward, be sure of yourlogic beforehand. Keep com-muniqués upbeat to maintainmorale around you. Lucky fi-nancial alignments should helpavert potential errors.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21): An awareness of shift-ing opinions could alert youto important trends in the busi-ness world. You may sense on which side your bread isbuttered. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):Your wise assessment of situ-ations and people should be right on the mark. Others mightnot be completely honest if ap-proached face to face. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):Minor misunderstandings canbe cleared up with an immedi-ate phone call or a quick chat. Your most trustworthy busi-ness contacts will be happy toput in a good word for you.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):Heart to heart discussions canopen your eyes to what is reallyimportant. Put all your effortsinto achieving worthy goals even if that means separatingtemporarily from old friends.IF JANUARY 25 IS YOURBIRTHDAY: Take advantage of helpful friends and acquain-tances in the next two to three weeks. You can use your top-notch business skills to achievemore financial security and de-serve to enjoy some luxury andcomfort at this point in yourlife. In April and May your gull-ibility and tendency to indulgein wishful thinking can land you in a predicament. Put yourambitions into motion.

MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2016

— Jeraldine Saunders

ACROSS 1 Cooper and

Player 6 Port __

cheese 11 Verb-forming

suffi x 14 Vowels 15 Old-time

actress Massey

16 Slash 17 “The Mun-

sters” street 20 Dundee

dagger 21 Cockamamie 22 Muhammad

and others 23 Med. asst. 25 Summer

hours in St. Pete

27 Billy Wilder fi lm

36 Writer LeShan

37 Give birth to boxers

38 Outmoded copier, briefl y

39 Bird-girl of “Green Mansions”

41 What Rip did 43 Subordinate

staffer 44 Slow to act 46 Stay abed 48 Lettuce

variety 49 Broad

semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates

52 UF rival 53 A pair 54 Stead 57 Capital of

Bangladesh 61 Distaff

hoops grp. 65 Dorothy’s

route 68 Lobster eggs

69 Sgt.’s superior 70 Bridal path? 71 Finder’s cry 72 Off kilter in

Scotland 73 Abounds

DOWN 1 Leggy legs 2 Ages and

ages 3 Oriental

staple 4 Bumpkins 5 Word with

juris or generis

6 Portent 7 Jessica of

“Dark Angel” 8 Butcher’s cut 9 Wind off 10 Whit

11 Myth ending? 12 Pueblo

dweller 13 Somme

summers 18 Musical

intervals 19 Baltic

country 24 Church bench 26 Not dese

or dose 27 Line of a letter 28 Commune

near Trieste 29 Identifi er 30 __ of the ball 31 Derived

from oil 32 Pullman berth 33 Vestment 34 Pre-surrealist

painter

35 Archaic verb with “thou”

40 Disingenuous 42 Piece

of man’s jewelry

45 “Whether __ nobler ...”: Hamlet

47 Part of Austral.

50 __ Mies van der Rohe

51 Shell currency 54 Vega’s

constellation

55 Architect Pei 56 Zeno’s home 58 Cain’s

brother 59 Motley __ 60 Populous

place 62 Rocket top 63 __ of Gilead 64 Citrus

quenchers 66 Can or cup

ending? 67 Krazy

Kartoon Karacter

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.

1/25/16

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

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