NY Times Puzzle No. 0708

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-maycare 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 Military trainees

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