CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Parenting pair,

perhaps

5 Word from the Aramaic for “father”

10 Onetime capital of

the Mughal Empire 14 Throw off

15 Ambition

16 Leftover bit

17 “The Chi” creator

Waithe

18 Word with ice or

rain

19 Fermented

seasoning

20 It may require

some heavy lifting 23 Leaves spots?

24 Coastal hazard

25 Checks at the bar? 26 Phony

27 “Mom” network 28 “Sunflower Seeds” artist Ai with an echoic name

30 Go for the gold? 32 London’s __

Modern

35 Dilutes

37 Laudatory poems 38 “Your Movie Sucks”

author

40 Old-style writing

need

42 Get lost, say

43 Well’s opposite

45 Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty subjects

49 Lincoln biographer

51 Get

52 “Caste” author who was the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism 54 Actress Sorvino

55 Having ups and

downs, in a way 56 Quatro x dos 57 Subject for pastors and philosophers

58 Where a 1980

“miracle” occurred 59 String some words

together?

60 Lick, maybe

61 More out there

62 Beneficiary of a

Sonic boom?

DOWN

1 Strike 2 Charging choices 3 Patronize, as a bistro

4 Draw for some

pictures 5 Confesses

6 Top __

7 Icon on some “Share the road” signs

8 Analyze to a fault 9 Saint of Ávila

10 Forum overseer, briefly

11 Reacted to pain

12 Share a look with? 13 Ones in a struggle 21 Manage

22 Periodontist’s concern

26 River in some Renoir paintings 29 Dizzying, as a romance

31 Contest with hogs 32 Elements of a

course schedule? 33 Irritating

34 Bottle garden

relatives

36 Fourth of July

purchase

39 The oldest known living one is named Methuselah

41 Orchestral tuner 44 So very

46 Brawn

47 Fraternal greeting 48 Hispanic title

50 Mavs’ sport

51 __ setting

53 “It was me”