Today's 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