L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD ACROSS
1 Was ahead
4 __ eclipse: daytime celestial event
9 Iowa State's home
13 Opera solo
15 Ahead by a small margin
16 Discourteous
17 Sound of the 1970s
19 Radiate
20 Pours from one container to another
21 Blue Ribbon brewery
22 __ and beans
23 Novelist O'Brien
26 Early email provider
27 Organ with an iris
29 Electronic source of percussion
32 Cry
34 “Heck if I know”
35 Looks up to
38 Wine shop event
42 G major analogue
44 Qatari leader
45 Unaccredited source of degrees
50 Suffix with percent
51 Florida NBA team,
on scoreboards
52 CrossFit units
53 Wood stove output
55 “Works __ time”
57 Carrying capacity of a cargo ship
60 Trig function that models light waves
61 Hypothetical space stuff that doesn't interact with light
64 Not taken in by
65 Figure of speech
66 Word repeated after “Que” in a classic song
67 Locksmith's supply
68 Canadian honker
69 Private chats, briefly, and what 17-, 29-, 45-, and 61-Across literally are
DOWN
1 Diane of “Chesapeake Shores”
2 The “E” of the Great Lakes HOMES mnemonic
3 Careful about what one reveals
4 Historic fort in South Carolina
5 Numbered musical work
6 Part of UCLA
7 Singer DiFranco
8 __ room: place for
a foosball table
9 Square footage
10 India's largest city
11 Inventor Thomas who co-founded General Electric
12 Accept, with “for”
14 Antioxidant berry
18 How software was once sold
21 Dueling steps
23 Angsty genre
24 Composer Shostakovich
25 Zero
27 Woolly mama
28 Agreeable reply
30 Open with a pop
31 Despise
33 Tangerine coat
36 Georgia school that's one of the New Ivies
37 Play charades, say
39 Aped
40 Zero
41 Test for M.A. hopefuls
43 Mantra syllables
45 Makes a decent living
46 “Trainspotting” novelist Welsh
47 More than enough
48 YSL men's fragrance
49 “Girls” creator Dunham
54 Industrious insects
56 Vintage Speed Wagons, e.g.
57 Boxing match decisions, for short
58 Antiseptic target
59 Notable times
61 Use a shovel
62 Ruckus
63 Ipanema's city