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Mountain View News Saturday, June 7, 2025

FATHER'S DAY

ACROSS

1. Home to Taj Mahal

5. Centum weight, acr.

8. Psychedelic drug, acr.

11. Elephant trainer's poker

12. *Ned Stark's youngest daughter

13. Draw out a conclusion

15. Parks of Civil Rights fame

16. Toothy wheel

17. Birth-related

18. *Pinocchio's father

20. Fortune-telling coffee remnant

21. Religious doctrine

22. D.C. mover and shaker, abbr.

23. Assembled

26. Raidable hotel room amenity

30. Evergreen creeper

31. "Fasten" a shoe (2 words)

34. Nay, to a baby

35. Dryer accumulation, pl.

37. Expose to moisture

38. White heron

39. Sodium hydroxide

40. Same as battle-ax

42. UN labor grp.

43. Like localized disease

45. Crab's grabber

47. Catcher in the what?

48. Food-borne bacteria

50. Begone!

52. *"Fathers and Sons" author

55. Not expensive

56. Medicinal plant

57. Joie de vivre

59. Batu Khan's posse

60. *Fils' father

61. Chicken of the sea

62. *Tarzan's adoptive dad

63. Before, poetically

64. Big Bang's original matter

DOWN

1. Financing acronym

2. Hot rum drink

3. *Official flower of Father's Day

4. Adjusts

5. Minotaur's island

6. *Kurt Russell's son of "Thunderbolts" fame

7. Tropical tuber

8. Stringed instrument

9. Slang for heroin

10. Marina ____ Rey, CA

12. "To do" list

13. "____ ____ a high note"

14. *Fictional Mr. _____ who banished 
children's nanny to a doghouse

19. Banana refuse, pl.

22. Gladys Knight's band member

23. *Christopher Robin's father A.A. ____

24. Like certain flu

25. Church assembly

26. Speechless

27. Gabriel of Chile

28. Administer ceremonial oil

29. Chopper blade

32. Nile dweller, for short

33. Snake-like reef dweller

36. *Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic 
father/son novel (2 words)

38. Expatriate

40. Dream in the sky

41. Climactic stage

44. Nearsited one

46. Degrees in right angle

48. Prolific Swiss mathematician

49. Ten million, in India

50. Mercantile establishment

51. This location

52. Cassette contents

53. Twelfth month of Jewish calendar

54. Rooftop contraption

55. Cuban dance step

58. "Platoon" setting, for short


May 31, 2025 Solutions


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