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 ACROSS

  1 Alarm clock toggle

  5 Competes in a musical battle

  9 Gently urge

 13 "Moana" demigod

 14 2, 4, 6, 8 and so on

 16 Good engine noise

 17 Fizzling noise

 18 Treat with a hole

 19 Capital of Latvia

 20 The chicken thief tried to ___

 23 Delight

 24 Chatter

 25 Getting on in years

 26 Ones who eat a fully plant-based diet

 28 Ibiza, por ejemplo

 30 Founding Father Thomas

 32 Got an A+ on, perhaps

 34 The whiskey thief tried to ___

 39 Italian lawn bowling

 41 Shape of Martin Luther King Jr.'s moral universe

 42 Arabian capital whose name has three A's

 43 The chocolate thief tried to ___

 46 Apartment payment

 47 Goes up

 48 Network point

 50 Sycophant

 53 Camera initials

 54 What holds water?

 57 Get on in years

 58 The dessert thief tried to ___

 62 Politician Andrew

 64 Device with tuners

 65 "Handling that right now!"

 66 "Er, uh-uh"

 67 Hangs out in the backyard, say?

 68 Airport area

 69 Little bird's sound

 70 Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, for one

 71 Places for soaks

DOWN

  1 Great way to be rewarded

  2 Crime group

  3 Overly complimentary article

  4 Softball glove

  5 Warning sign

  6 Not touch with a ten-foot pole

  7 Ivy in the Keystone State, familiarly

  8 Comfy

  9 Chest-pumping skill: Abbr.

 10 Board whose name combines two words for "yes"

 11 Alphabetically first noble gas

 12 Inside looks?

 15 Sugar substitute

 21 "You've got mail!" company

 22 Tears apart

 27 Butler of "300"

 29 Camera memory chip

 30 City of Love ... and the Louvre

 31 The basics

 32 Core components?

 33 Foldable bed

 35 Leaf-gathering tool

 36 "This 3 p.m. crash is hitting me hard!"

 37 Photographer Goldin

 38 Kit ___

 40 Poet T.S.

 44 Loki's home, in Marvel movies

 45 George Carlin became the first one in '75

 49 Catan resource

 50 Easy basketball shot

 51 Athlete's best effort

 52 ___ alla vodka

 53 Pigpens

 55 Dog breed from Japan

 56 Doles (out)

 59 Mario ___ (racing game)

 60 Falco of "The Sopranos"

 61 Gear teeth

 63 Org. symbolized by an elephant

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