STAR SIGNS

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Allwork and no play can make for a dull day. Channel your innerentertainer and you may findyourself performing for an ap-preciative audience. TAURUS (April 20-May 20):Freely spread extra grains ofsalt when the facts are pep-pered with half-truths. Those you are thrown in contact withmight not be totally accurate. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The news might not be exactly what you wanted to hear. Butyou may have asked the wrongquestion at the wrong time. Push aside personal desires and doubts.CANCER (June 21-July 22):Scattering your energy in toomany directions can be coun-terproductive. A brief period ofhurry and flurry could deteryou from important tasks.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Try something new. Don’t be afraidto color outside the lines or toapproach problems from a dif-ferent angle. A new acquain-tance may merely turn out tobe a fair-weather friend.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Beon target by not going off on a tangent. Convey the appro-priate message to a loved oneor make plans to get certainjobs completed with speed andaccuracy. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Youmay find an attractive item thatyou simply must own. Thenyou get it home and find thatit matches nothing else in yourwardrobe.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Deal with them immediately. Youmay need extra self-disciplineto avoid arguments and keepyour mind on work, but that’sthe way to achieve success.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.21): Don’t expect stability when you are undergoing changes. You might ride a roller coasterof highs and lows with neitherextreme lasting very long. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):Dedication is a desirable trait.Put your energy as well as brains to work in ways that willimprove your reputation andearn you recognition for a jobwell done. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):People count on your backing when faced with calamity or crisis. You might not be able tomake headway with a personalfinancial situation.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):You may receive more than your fair share of special offersand sales contacts. Don’t let inconsequential interruptionsdisturb the work environment.IF JULY 28 IS YOUR BIRTH-DAY: Your imagination couldbe stuck in overdrive for the next five to six weeks so you may let an attraction or a crushfool you into thinking it is thereal thing. Your judgment is much better in October whenyou can embrace new oppor-tunities and successfully enterinto new commitments, suchas a new romance, new job or change of address. You mightreceive a lucky break in the form of a job opportunity orhelpful new friend.

THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2016

— Jeraldine Saunders

ACROSS 1 Bird’s crop 5 Groom

oneself 10 Subsides 14 Verdi opera 15 Trevanian

novel, “The __ Sanction”

16 Come together

17 Updike collection

19 Australia’s largest lake

20 Attempter 21 Lombard

or King 23 Grounded

bird 26 Raised

railways 27 Occupied the

throne 28 Meddlesome

women 30 Did some

garden maintenance

31 Calls a chicken

32 Uses emery 33 Make holes 36 Holm oak 37 Uninhabited

region 38 No longer

here 39 Continental

NASA equivalent

40 Adds some seasoning

41 __ Ste. Marie 42 Marcia and

Dick 44 Motley

collection 45 Not skillful

with tools 47 Police offi cer 48 Tango team 49 Less of a

mess 50 Sergeant fi sh 52 Red ink entry 53 Too distant

58 At rest 59 Barbarian 60 Part

of MYOB 61 Color

alterer 62 Brought to a

conclusion 63 Witty

Bombeck

DOWN 1 Tabby 2 Carnival city,

casually 3 Fuss about

nothing 4 Float on

the wind 5 Dangers 6 Bar

mitzvahs and baptisms

7 Borodin’s Russian prince

8 Ryan of “Sleepless in Seattle”

9 Continues after a pause

10 Materialize 11 No question 12 Uncle Miltie 13 Emma Peel’s

partner 18 Zones 22 Helpful

hints 23 Singer

Gorme 24 Dinners 25 Inaccessibly

situated 27 Tears

29 Cowboy’s nickname

30 Disney and Whitman

32 Soft and lustrous

34 Marital relation

35 Square one 37 Free-

standing closet

38 Joke or choke 40 Rational 41 Quality

of taste

43 Second of two mentioned

44 Having a ceiling 45 Voided 46 In want 47 Twenty fi ns? 50 Kind of poker 51 Comic actor

Danny 54 Fancy vase 55 Fin. neighbor 56 Wrigley

product 57 Historic

period

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.

7/28/16

A DAILY CROSSWORD

PHOEBE & HER UNICORN

ADAM@HOME

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

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

DAILY JUMBLE