Quick 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 (C) 2023 Tribune Media Services 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