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Across

1 Give kudos to

5 Trudge through water

10 News piece

14 Marriott alternative

15 Cake instruction Alice followed 16 Empty-truck weight

17 *Bring dinner to diners, say 19 Gumbo pod

20 Villainous expressions 21 Jamaican export 22 Revolutionary Trotsky

23 To and __

24 *Discover incriminating information

26 Not yet resolved

29 Yorkie, size-wise

30 Sans accomplices

31 Work on punches

34 Buffalo hockey pro

38 ID checker’s concern

39 *Band’s cheat sheet

41 Schlep

42 “Sorry to say ... “

44 Apiary unit

45 Yao of hoops fame 46 Connections

48 Storefront covers

50 *Stiletto on a shoe

55 “Not only that ... “

56 Put to work

57 “__ let you know”

58 Stream crosser

61 Word in a hot day simile 62 Sport that involves the moves that start the answers to starred clues

64 Speech quality

65 Olympic blades

66 Molecule component

67 Hearty bowlful

68 Tenant payments

69 Credit union seizure, briefly

Down

1 Fiscal disappointment 2 “Couldn’t agree more!”

3 Like crude oil

4 Not at all homogeneous 5 Black and Red

6 Run for it

7 “SNL” alum Cheri

8 Dragon in “The Hobbit”

9 __ Kohl, first chancellor of reunified

Germany

10 “Listen to me next time!” 11 “Star Trek” actor George 12 Fielder’s fluff

13 Should have said

18 God of love

24 Pool diver’s concern 25 Fence support

26 “Sorry to say ... “

27 Forum garment

28 Purpose

32 Oscar winner Mahershala 33 Adversary

35 Sight-unseen encounter 36 Ladder part

37 Incubator contents

39 Last word in the first song of

the year

40 Suture, say

43 Showing no wear 45 Pay-for-what-you-use hotel

feature

47 React to cold

49 __ a one: zero

50 Annual pet checkup components 51 Turn on a shaft

52 Cara of “Fame”

53 Marry on the fly 54 DeGeneres who voices Dory 58 Gershwin heroine 59 Unsavory stuff

60 Saint with a fire

63 Tennis do-over