STAR SIGNS

ARIES (Mar 21-Apr. 19): Becontent. Wishing that you hadmore possessions or a betterstanding could only leave youdown in the dumps. Keep a positive attitude.TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20):Make the most of what you’vegot. There’s no reason to spenda pile of money to make im-provements when a bit of creativity and ingenuity willachieve the same results.GEMINI (May 21-June 20):Move into the spotlight. You’ll find that if you put your opin-ions and ideas on display, otherpeople will be more than happyto pay attention. CANCER (June 21-July 22):Honesty is the best policy. The only way that you’ll get through to someone is by beingcompletely open and candidrather than trying to use smokeand mirrors. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If youwant to get anything done, doit yourself. Don’t depend onsomeone else to pick up the slack or to perform your duties.Just keep a cool head and youwill not invite criticism.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Don’t treat an obstacle too lightly. Asituation may arise that was created simply to see how you react to it, rather like a test.Show how well that you canoperate under pressure.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22.): Stayout of the piggy bank. You mayhave an urge to treat yourself to a pretty bauble that catchesyour eye. Try to remain withinthe budget. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):You’ve got the look. Others may find you more attractivethan usual and a significant other may not be able to keeptheir hands off you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21): Don’t let your eyes wan-der too far. Be careful who you are looking at or you may findsomeone looking back at you.Romantic pursuits are likely tobe pleasant, whether spending time with a loved one or look-ing for someone new.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):The world isn’t going to stopfor you. You can complain un-til you’re blue in the face butyou’ll only succeed in burningthe ears of those around you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):Quit beating the dead horse. Apast mistake will continue tobe a roadblock for you if youdon’t push it from your mindand move on. PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Re-member the boy who cried wolf. If you fly off the handleand sound the alarm at everylittle thing, no one is going topay any attention to you whensomething serious happens. IF DECEMBER 1 IS YOURBIRTHDAY: No one caresas much about your success as you do and you may findthis to be very true during thenext eight to 10 weeks. Work hard, but work smart, so thatyou have enough time for holiday get-togethers and fam-ily events. Take extra vitaminsand get plenty of rest to copewith a demanding schedule.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2015

— Jeraldine Saunders

ACROSS 1 Projection

on a basilica 5 Frenzied 9 Certain radio

operators 14 Knockoff 15 “Mickey Blue

Eyes” co-star 16 “Slave Ship”

author Jones 17 One from the

fi nal eight 20 Reporting to 21 Like the

blackest nights

22 Crystalline water

23 Gore and Franken

26 The woman in question

27 Williams of baseball

28 __ Cola 30 Greek capital 35 Withstand

stress 37 Melville tale 38 Bad injury 43 Subtle perva-

sive quality 44 Bizarre

person 45 Evaluator 48 Nevada

senator Harry

49 Mrs. Nixon 52 Muscular

spasm 54 Go on snow 55 Altar words 56 Acted upon 61 Trevanian

novel, “The __ Sanction”

63 Lack of passion

66 Rocky ridge 67 Fit of anger 68 Dorothy’s

pup 69 Trumpets

and tubas

70 Geological periods

71 Entities

DOWN 1 Declare not

guilty 2 Spring upon

unexpectedly 3 Dug 4 Largest

lake in Australia

5 Crackerjack 6 Deface 7 Clods 8 Creates

booties 9 Red wine of

Bordeaux 10 Ring signal 11 Ashtabula’s

lake

12 __ Ice Shelf 13 Tends tots 18 Outlined 19 Okinawa

city 24 Install, as

software 25 Threaded

fastener 29 Boring

tool 31 Tramp 32 Down Under

bird 33 Fin.

neighbor 34 Dad’s

little man 35 Nail 36 Jimmies 38 Label 39 Ben’s last

name?

40 Lyrical Gershwin

41 Estrada of “CHiPs”

42 Formed whirlpools

46 Engraves 47 Solemn

ceremony 49 Con man’s

target 50 “__ Fideles” 51 Bodies 53 Come

to a halt 56 Pequod

skipper 57 “M.A.S.H.”

co-star Jamie

58 Fido’s bane

59 Small sala-manders

60 First James Bond fi lm

62 Involved with 64 Kind

of soldier or hat?

65 UFO pilots

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.

12/1/15

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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