CROSSWORDS

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 an 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”