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Squidward, confronting his doppelganger: "Oh ___ hot!"
15A
___ Mobil (gas giant)
16A
Wall-climbing vine
17A
"Hello?"
19A
Wise man who gifted gold or frankincense or myrrh
21A
Printer's blue
22A
Day of a plot to save the Republic (it didn't work)
23A
Morning-time request
26A
Kind of sightedness
27A
UV-blocking numbers
30A
Pizza topping option
32A
Down for the count
38A
"What a shame"
40A
Lengthy sales pitch
41A
Phantom of the Opera's name
42A
Place to rest while recovering
45A
Car-jacking video game franchise (abbr.)
46A
Scraped by, with "out"
47A
Smallest Great Lake by volume
49A
Online posts with horror scenarios such as "You've been in a coma for 20 years. We're trying a new technique. We don't know where these words will end up in your dream, but we hope it works."
56A
Prefix for "both," as in a double meaning
59A
Where a cat may get stuck
60A
Immature insult
61A
T-bone, for instance
64A
"Okay, ___ bite"
65A
Like an exclusive boarding school
66A
Small and large
67A
Scottish negative
68A
Fast food fryer metal
69A
Australia's busiest airport (and city) abbr.
70A
Map app's chip
Down
1D
Zeppelin
2D
Antagonizer who might not be an antagonist
3D
Medical device used to keep a brain functioning
4D
Neither here ___ there
5D
TV network of Supernatural and Riverdale
6D
OutKast "shake it like a Polaroid picture" single
7D
It may be staked in grass volleyball
8D
'60s nonconformist who conformed, say
9D
Fired
10D
Injured, as a meniscus
11D
Small bills
13D
Bahaman capital named for a German city
14D
Leave dishes in the sink, but with water, at least
18D
Trois minus deux
20D
Dubai's country (abbr.)
24D
Accounting firm ___ & Young
25D
UCLA rival just 12 miles away
28D
Failing to remember. Failing to remember. Failing to remember