N.Y. 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 Oftenprewritten 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 nono 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-’90s N.F.L. 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 Blackand-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