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 ACROSS

  1 "That's my cue!"

  5 The 411

  9 Story with a moral

 14 One of 500 at Daytona

 15 Amanda Gorman or Langston Hughes

 16 Lubricated

 17 "... plus, a certain smoked fish is another favorite of mine"?

 20 Actress Davis

 21 Advil competitor

 22 Edgar Allan ___

 23 Goof up

 24 Biological pouch

 26 Glowing review

 28 Ares' mother

 29 Landforms at river mouths

 33 Shredding company?

 37 Defunct Swedish car brand

 38 Org. concerned with cybersecurity

 39 Brainstorming result

 40 Flexible spectacles?

 45 Empty ___ (certain parent)

 46 Foot's curve

 47 Move like a shark

 49 Org. concerned with cannabis

 50 "The Simpsons" character critiqued by Hari Kondabolu

 53 "___ knows?"

 56 Blue toon in a mushroom-shaped home

 58 Rapper Kendrick

 60 Pitcher's boast during a shutout?

 63 Water filter brand

 64 Person you idealize

 65 ACL's leg part

 66 Fidgety

 67 Talks incessantly

 68 Auctioneer's last word

DOWN

  1 What a P.R. agent cultivates

  2 One may dig for coal

  3 ___ and wiser

  4 Rejection in Berlin

  5 Wall St. debut

  6 Sign at a full motel

  7 Have a sense

  8 "Something else" category

  9 Eternally

 10 What a snowboarder catches, slangily

 11 Plane, say, on a radar screen

 12 Jay who hosted "The Tonight Show"

 13 Sharp part of a knife

 18 Powerful beam

 19 Cleverly avoid

 25 Singer Grande, to fans

 27 "Lord of the Rings" language for pointy-eared beings

 28 Bad ones are hard to break

 30 Natural destroyer of sandcastles

 31 Las Vegas 53-Down team

 32 The Mediterranean, for one

 33 Record on video

 34 Corn servings

 35 Concert, for a band

 36 Small utensil

 37 Identity thief's target, briefly

 41 Long Island paper

 42 Filthy

 43 "___ you serious?"

 44 Climb up

 48 Like an overripe pear

 50 ___ acid (protein component)

 51 Solar energy device

 52 Encouraged

 53 Hoops org. for Diamond DeShields

 54 What you may hit when you're in a jam

 55 Memorial bio

 57 Name hidden in "overheard"

 59 Vessels like Noah's

 61 Extra hockey periods: Abbr.

 62 ___ Def (rapper)

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