NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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 Mi l i tarytrai nees 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