The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

- By Mollie Cowger

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 Non-Proliferat­ion 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”

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7/17/21

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