Your Stars
ARIES (Mar 21-Apr 19): If you can make a game out of it, you will. Your playful approach to work and life will lift the atmosphere, make everyone feel happier and ultimately aid production. You'll be chosen for key roles.
TAURUS (Apr 20-May 20): Not every fiction is a lie, and true facts can sometimes paint inaccurate pictures. You value both honesty and creativity. Is there a way to do both at the same time?
GEMINI (May 21-Jun 21): However you are feeling, you're not the only one. Share your experience. If it's joy, you'll multiply it in the sharing, and if it's sadness, the warmth of sharing will have a diminishing effect.
CANCER (Jun 22-Jul 22): In some situations, you'd rather be appropriate than funny, and in others, humour is well worth the risk. You'll be in both kinds today, and you'll win hearts by choosing the tone that best suits your company.
LEO (Jul 23-Aug 22): You'll play many roles over the course of the day. You'll serve and be served; dream and do; pay and be paid. You'll order the fix and be the fixer. You'll outline the job and fulfil it, too.
VIRGO (Aug 23-Sep 22): While there's comfort in predictability, too much of it creates a very uncomfortable state of boredom and irritation. You'll seek and find just the right amount of novelty – a sense of surprise but not alarm.
LIBRA (Sep 23-Oct 23): All anyone can ever do is make the best of what they have to apply in the given circumstance. You'll give with abandon and decide it's good enough. You'll receive with grace and decide it's good enough.
SCORPIO (Oct 24-Nov 21): Everyday activities will play like a celebration; your passion will be refocused and renewed. It may go in reverse order, since switching things up brings energy and energy inspires you to switch things up.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): When the apple cart of expectation overturns, it's a surprise but not a disaster. This is a chance to do some tidying up, reassess your scene and reset the accounting.
CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): You're not missing out on anything, but someone trying to seem interesting will arrange the pictures to give a heightened sense of reality. There's deep satisfaction and fun to be mined from a focus on your own scene.
AQUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): More than meditation, reading or any sort of spiritual agenda, interacting in the world teaches you what is inside you. Experiences will reveal strengths, weaknesses and emotions you didn't know you had.
PISCES (Feb 19-Mar 20): Togetherness is not always smooth, and that's good. Little mistakes are a gift of bonding, and you will build trust with another person as you acknowledge and validate what goes right as well as what needs work.
Previous cryptic solution
Across: 1. Catch 4. Nominal 8. Nestlings 9. Tug 10. Readmit
12. Grit 14. Attempt 17. Carp 18. Helping 20. Icy 21. Philander
23. Nonstop 24. Emend.
Down: 1. Contradiction 2. Tuscan 3. Helpmate 4. Nun 5. Musk
6. Nature 7. Light-fingered 11. Teeth 13. Spillage 15. Crayon
16. Girdle 19. Spot 22. Imp.
Previous quick solution
Across: 1. Slim 3. Reprisal 9. Enemies 10. Girls
11. Insurrection 13. Escape 15. Carton 17. Independence
20. Niece 21. Gladden 22. Sanitise 23. Well.
Down: 1. Specimen 2. Ideas 4. Easier 5. Right-hand man
6. Sort out 7. Lest 8. Misrepresent 12. Internal 14. Concern
16. Feigns 18. Nudge 19. Onus.