The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Gloomy atmosphere 5 Mess up
9 Subject of some youth sports fraud
12 What inventions start as 14 Actor Morales of “The Brink”
15 Toot one’s own horn 16 Fish fork
17 Cocktail fork
19 Vice president who became ambassador to Japan 21 Swapped
22 It ends rather spookily: abbr.
23 Last ruler of the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway 26 Often-prewritten news article, for short 29 Regret 30 Wide-eyed sort 34 Unrealized
36 Draw (out)
37 Leslie in the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame
38 Salad fork 39 Flashlight inserts, perhaps 40 Soldier’s topper 41 Well, in old Rome 42 Loos
43 Some rock coverings 44 “Bye!”
45 Wide shoe spec
46 ___ Village (Manhattan neighborhood) 47 Russia, once 50 Preschool group? 53 Estate sharer 56 Bespectacled canine of comics 59 Dessert fork
62 Fruit fork 63 Haberdasher’s array 64 “Yikes!”
65 TV’s Don Draper, for one 66 Abbr. on a remote 67 Fictional boy who rafted down the Mississippi 68 Big brand of petrol
DOWN
1 ___ Beach, Calif. 2 Makeshift
3 Makeshift shelter 4 Kosher bakery no-no 5 They might go viral 6 “Mr. Robot” network 7 Partner of wide
8 What Buddha is said to have meditated under 9 Barren
10 Boarding pass datum 11 “Heavens to Murgatroyd!” 13 Genre of the band Less Than Jake 15 Idiotic
18 The Cards, on scoreboards 20 1980s-1990s NFL great Ronnie
24 Like envelope flaps 25 Relatives of puffins 27 Relatives of kingfishers 28 India ___
31 Wind tunnel currents 32 “Got it!”
33 They can be saturated 34 Pride parade letters 35 Rest ___
39 Big name in laptops 40 Fashion accessory that may be six feet long 42 No longer interested in 43 An assistant might take one
48 Follower of yes or no in the military 49 Ancient arts venue 51 Black-and-white mammals
52 Prefix with musicology 53 Security guard’s viewing, for short
54 River originating in Pittsburgh
55 Shoe part
57 Figure on a résumé, in brief
58 Monk known as “The Father of English History” 60 Upsilon follower 61 Stop on a trip