The New York Times Crossword

Answers below

ACROSS

1 Shoe company with a

fish name

5 Bumbling

10 Hot rod race

14 Sets of points, in math 15 Some cartridge filler 16 Hershey caramel-filled

candy

17 Land between the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf

18 With sleight of hand,

say

19 Devil-may-care attitude, in modern parlance

20 Having a meal!

23 Word from Swahili for

“journey”

24 Go as far down as 28 Curses 31 Oscar-winning Sophia 32 Landmark 1973 Supreme Court case, informally

35 M ilit a ry t ra in e e s 38 ___ Tometi, activist who co-founded Black Lives Matter

40 Author Mario Vargas

___

41 Aching

42 Downward dog

45 Bit of butter

46 Historic 1965 march

location

47 Business sign abbr. 49 “Seems about right” 52 Providers of some comic relief in “Star Wars”

56 “Will you marry me?”

59 Grand party 62 Language quintet 63 Word on a deli scale 64 Retail giant that opened its first U.S. store near Philadelphia in 1985 65 Words, informally 66 In great shape 67 Ending with four or six, but not three or five

68 Sound of disgust 69 “Shoo!”

DOWN

1 Pure joy

2 Main artery

3 Neck warmer

4 Singer O’Connor 5 “Piece of cake!” 6 Florida State athlete,

for short

7 Four-time Grammy winner for Best New Age Album 8 Bombards

9 “Have a taste!” 10 Textiles and sundries 11 Aussie hopper

12 “Is that ___?”

13 Glue & or a rhyme for

“glue”

21 Sp. ladies

22 Mardi Gras locale, for

short 25 About to go under the

knife, in brief

26 Four: Prefix 27 Beginning

29 Simba’s mate in “The

Lion King”

30 Range

32 Martini & ___ 33 Chose, with “for” 34 Some English nobles 36 Those, to José

37 Make something seem

less likely to be true 39 Vegetable in succotash

43 Pugilist’s goal 44 Historical figure played by Kurt Russell in “Tombstone” 48 Some diner seating

choices

50 Russians and Belarusians

51 Classic theater 53 Singer/songwriter

Hayes

54 Girl in the “Our Gang”

movies

55 Wintry mix

57 ___ de gallo (condiment)

58 Thunder

59 Concern when buying

shoes

60 Squeeze (out) 61 Where a long drive

often starts