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36 North Shore Towers Courier n February 2014 jklabcdefghi jklabcdefghi 2 5 7 9 8 3 6 5 7 4 3 4 3 7 5 4 1 4 2 SUDOKU Fill in the blank squares in the grid, making sure that every row, column and 3-by-3 box includes all digits 1 through 9. Across 1. Like some mushrooms 7. Pertaining to a particular state, not the national government 13. Fur pouch worn with a kilt 14. Bears 16. Protozoan with microscopic appendages 17. Type of archery bow 18. Brews 19. In-box contents 21. The America’s Cup trophy, e.g. 22. Churchill’s “so few”: Abbr. 23. Babysitter’s handful 24. A pint, maybe 25. Woman’s ornamental case for holding small tools 27. Profundity 29. Beehive, e.g. 30. Intensive researchers 32. Open 34. “___ moment” 35. Affranchise 36. Hungarian dance 40. Tannin extract from tropical Asian plants 44. Bank 45. Grief 47. Comparative word 48. Common deciduous tree 49. PC linkup 50. “... ___ he drove out of sight” 51. Cat’s scratcher 53. Bats 55. Astronaut’s insignia 56. Bitter brown seed used in soft drinks 58. Crude stone artifacts 60. Killing oneself 61. Nordic and downhill accessory (2 wds) 62. ___ Monkey Trial 63. Muscular twitching due to calcium deficiency Down 1. Remove body hair 2. Causing grief 3. Western blue flag, e.g. 4. Car accessory 5. Delayed 6. Kind of list 7. Texts of a play or movie 8. Old Chinese money 9. Parenthesis, essentially 10. “How ___!” 11. Medium for radio broadcasting 12. Device used on furniture to avoid wobble 13. Chicken 15. Calm 20. Increase, with “up” 26. Key material 27. Apprehension 28. Relating to the scar on a seed 29. Santa’s reindeer, e.g. 31. Armageddon 33. After expenses 36. Stew holders 37. Devoted 38. Having a pH greater than 7 39. The dissolved matter in a solution (pl.) 40. Dispute 1 8 6 2 3 5 9 4 7 41. To be unfaithful to one’s 7 4 9 1 6 8 3 5 2 partner (2 wds) 3 5 2 9 7 4 1 6 8 42. In an unkind manner 43. Anxiety 6 9 5 4 8 2 7 1 3 46. Back muscle, familiarly 8 2 3 5 1 7 6 9 4 52. 1993 standoff site 4 7 1 6 9 3 8 2 5 53. Art subject 54. Bind 9 3 4 8 2 6 5 7 1 55. Palm tree with leaves 2 6 8 7 5 1 4 3 9 used for thatching 5 1 7 3 4 9 2 8 6 57. Barely beat 59. On, as a lamp Answers to last month’s NST Puzzle & Sudoku 6 8 9 8 5 1 8 5 7 9 4 ARIES - 3/21-4/19 Defensiveness is contagious. It’s easy to pick up on and even easier to emulate, especially when we’re in a position where we feel defensiveness is justified. Yet, when we lower our guard and show willingness toward someone priming themselves for confrontation, we throw them off guard. They suddenly find they have to adjust in some way to our reaction. If you truly want to make progress within a tense situation, then at least pretend you hold no grudge or resentment. If you can, then someone else will respond similarly and progress really can be made. TAURUS - 4/20-5/20 Few of us are lively or pleasant upon waking from a deep sleep. It takes time for us to adjust and decide what mood we’re in or how best to deal with what needs addressing upon waking. In some ways, you’re adjusting to change that is causing you to assess what mood suits you best to cope with it. All that matters is the need to take your time and adjust slowly. There’s no rush and the more you can allow yourself to grow accustomed to whatever is new, the easier it will be. All you need to do is be willing to accept that something has changed and very much for the better. GEMINI - 5/21-6/20 It’s easy to turn a ‘blind eye’ to something we know to be untrue. We do this if we feel a situation isn’t worth the effort of confronting or causing tension. Sometimes though, we need to summon courage and confront a situation or individual that we believe is instrumental in us being deceived or adhering to a false belief. For some time, you’ve accepted a dubious situation or been willing to say nothing in the hope that doing so would keep the peace. As this week progresses, the urge to speak your mind will become strong. Accept that it’s happening for a reason. CANCER - 6/21-7/22 When completing a puzzle, it’s sometimes easier to start with the edges. Sometimes though, a left or right edged piece can look very much like top or bottom piece. To help determine which is which, we refer to the picture on the box. Recent weeks have seen you getting to grips with a particular situation akin to piecing together a puzzle. Whilst a completed picture is not available yet, you’ve made superb progress building a foundation of sorts. It’s now time to start working on the bit in the middle and, at long last, a certain picture really is about to become clearer. LEO - 7/23-8/22 ‘We’ve nothing to fear but fear itself’. So said Franklin D. Roosevelt and the essence of his statement is correct. Yet, we know how, within fears, other fears dwell. It is possible to nurture fears within fears. If we allow ourselves to invest faith in these, they become very real, in our minds at least. It’s time to cease nurturing a particular fear that has strong and seemingly real connections to others. Imagination is a wonderful thing but yours is at risk of getting the better of you now. Relax and focus on the goal you know to be real that will remove many nurtured fears. VIRGO - 8/23-9/22 Some thoughts, when they become embedded in our minds, go round and round and become difficult to lose or become distanced from. When we allow one confusing thought to lead to another, then we are now dealing with two confusing thoughts. Things become even more uncertain when we allow more such thoughts to emerge, Hydra-like. If you’re not seeing the benefits of stepping back and distancing yourself from an uncertain sensitive situation, then you will do very soon. Let developments this week help to allow you to do precisely that. LIBRA - 9/23 - 10/22 Were all mountains the size of molehills at one time? Possibly. If enough effort is given to making a molehill significantly larger, then it can be done but it is difficult to identify a good enough reason for going to such effort. Can the same not be said in an area of your world now? Are you not at risk of making a much bigger issue out of something that doesn’t warrant such attention? It is easy to believe how the main area of tension in your world can escalate. This week provides a necessary opportunity to step back and see how all is not nearly as troublesome as it appears. SCORPIO - 10/23-11/21 When faced with tense or uncertain situations, it’s natural to wish we were somewhere else. The desire to ring changes becomes stronger when we believe we’ve reached the end of a proverbial tether or want to see change happen for the sake of it. The coming week is likely to highlight how grass could be greener elsewhere or your making a grand gesture of change could send a clear message to certain individuals who believe you’ve become complacent in some way. Don’t resist the feeling of change now but don’t be too quick to instigate it, either. SAGITTARIUS - 11/22/12/21 Some people can look at what’s happening in our respective worlds and offer much advice or criticism. That’s easy enough to do. It’s made easier by the fact that they’re distanced from what we’re experiencing and able to be more objective and discriminating than we can at times. That doesn’t mean you’re unable to see proverbial wood for trees now in an area you need to be a bit more objective toward. You know what you need to do. What’s missing is a combination of courage and effort. This week, expect to find yourself summoning more of both. CAPRICORN - 12/22-1/19 If we tell ourselves something enough times, then we eventually start to believe it. We’re all capable of convincing ourselves of anything we’re willing to be convinced about. The same can be said about what’s told to us, too. If enough people say the same thing, then we start to question our own beliefs. When this happens, we are sometimes reluctant to upset proverbial apple carts or be seen to be obstructive. It’s easy for you to allow yourself to be convinced of something but is it right to do so? Don’t be too quick to allow yourself to be influenced this week. AQUARIUS - 1/20-2/18 Your determination is admirable. Your persistence is praiseworthy. However, might a need exist now for you to at least step back from a situation you have pursued painstakingly of late? Results, or at least those you desire, haven’t exactly been forthcoming and you could even be at risk of making a situation worse rather than improving it with your constant effort. In the same way a coat of paint needs time before a second coat can be applied, you need to allow more time to pass before continuing with your pursuit. This week provides an excellent distraction. PISCES - 2/19-3/20 Some people are experts at predicting final scores for sporting matches. They’ve learned to assess both teams and make predictions based on history and ability. Of course, they don’t always get it right. Numerous factors can occur to affect or influence an outcome that involves tension, determination or even conflict. The coming week sees you using your unique intuitive abilities to determine the next stage of a plan with a view to affecting the outcome. The outcome depends on how clearly you can visualize it. Expect to get a helpful glimpse into what it could be.


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