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1 E-cigarette output 6 Something to shift into or stow 10 Hershey’s Kiss covering 14 Best competitive effort 15 Coach Reid of the 2020 Super Bowl-winning Chiefs 16 Garnish for a Corona 17 Dance with a kick 18 Strategy used in basketball and football 20 German appliance brand 22 Maker of tarts and tortes 23 Wis.-to-ga. direction 26 Cyclops and others 28 Hog’s heaven 29 “Sunset Boulevard” actress Gloria 31 Figure in cellphone plans 33 Exclamation of surprise 35 Touch lovingly 39 Dweller along the Bering Sea 40 “That’s going to leave a mark!” 42 Big name in little trucks 43 Prank involving yanking underwear 45 “Paper Moon” Oscar winner 47 Major city of west-central Syria 49 Behaves improperly 50 Butter square 53 Turn the dial to a radio station 55 ___-crab soup 56 What an acrobat needs to be 58 Buzzards Bay, for one 60 “Water Lilies” painter 62 Birds with effervescent voices 67 Struggling with a decision 68 Fast-swimming shark 69 Outdo … or a hint to entering four answers in this puzzle 70 Party goodies 71 TV actor/director Ken 72 Kind of language used by sailors
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1 Household device with a hose, informally 2 Before now 3 Paella cooker 4 “Srsly?!” 5 20 quires = 1 ___ 6 Stare at, as another’s eyes 7 ___ Gay (W.W. II bomber) 8 Either 1 in “1+1” 9 Bread with seeded and unseeded varieties 10 Hartz collar target 11 Sounds from a 28-Across 12 “Good to go here!” 13 Skeptical 19 Profile posting, for short 21 “Young Frankenstein” character who asks “What hump?” 23 Extremely muscular, in slang 24 Cut, as lumber 25 “Just be quiet already!” 27 Middle X or O 29 “Major Barbara” playwright 30 Stuffed to the gills 32 Memory triggers, for many 34 All the rage 36 He was raised by Cain 37 Diamond-shaped ray 38 Pizzeria in “Do the Right Thing” 41 Winner of 11 Tonys in 2016 44 Goose : gaggle :: ___ : mob 46 One of three on an oyster fork 48 20 Questions category 50 Diplomatic agreements 51 Shining 52 Bejeweled head ornament 54 Long-stemmed mushroom 57 It’s breath-taking 59 Numbers for Noah 61 Jimmy Eat World music genre 63 Single-stranded genetic molecule 64 Smoked fish 65 Trail mix bit 66 Use a nanny cam, say