)ôACROSS&DOWNêKê¢^« —¡1.4NCOUNTER.TOP.ENDARMOIRE.AVA.DIARENDERS.GETSWETDOO.ROTC.RECITE...MARSHA.NONOSTUPAC..ASKTO...ININK.RIPE.PLEBMOTH.FENCE.FORAESTA.ISLA.MUSIC...TARSI..ALECKABETS.ANKLES...LANAIS.KRIS.CCROMANAIR.ONTARIONBC.GMO.FERMATAEAT.OUT.TRIPPED-------.---.----------.---.----------.----------.----.------...------.----------..-----...-----.----.--------.-----.--------.----.-----...-----..----------.------...------.----.----------.----------.---.----------.---.-------Cross-Border Connections - Saturday, January 28, 2023By Parker Higgins and Brooke Husic. Edited by Amanda Rafkin.© 2023, Andrews McMeel UniversalWith 8-Across, kitchen surfaceWith 1-Across, suspiciously successful blackjack player, perhapsCookie brand not clued as a cookie brand in the New York Times crossword until 1994"Uh ... I don't think so"Wordless approvalPlace to hang bolosOff-by-one miscalculation, e.g.Takes a breatherWith 11-Across, highest-qualityMake it?Done withInventor's protectionWith 13-Down, when things wrap upAstronomer HubbleName in Mexican politics that translates to "grandson"With 37-Down, is traced (to)Fancy dresser?DuVernay who directed "When They See Us"24 horasProvidesSits in the splash zone at a water park, sayProtein powder portionsSurname for ScoobertMilitary college org. that Alan Bean was inWith 39-Across, boundary around a tennis court ... and around this gridRead, like a poemActivist ___ P. JohnsonOld-fashioned alternativePet adoption org.TaboosTitle for Inca royalty now used as a given nameWith 1-Down, worker's hours trackerChicago pizza chain, informallyKeystone State school, familiarlyInvite forPad ___ mao (Thai "drunken noodles")How most contracts are signedReady for consumption, sayNobel Peace Prize-winning journalist MariaSomeone hardly uncommon?"Heads I win, tails you ___"Jonah Hauer-King's "The Little Mermaid" roleWith 58-Down, rural thoroughfareNocturnal lepidopteranSee 22-DownTree with needlesDiscussion venues___ Noche (legendary San Francisco gay bar)Puerto Rico, e.g."___ of the Sun" (Rihanna's debut album)Super conductors?Tibia connectorsCheese in some bagelsSmart ___Drives the getaway car, e.g.With 27-Down, something sought by an introvert"La ___" (18th century Mexican folk song)Make into lawLower leg joints"60 Minutes" journalist SteveContainer containerRoofed porchesShang-Chi actor LiuFilm score composer Bowers"Run Through the Jungle" band, to fans"Aw, nuts"Provide as a referenceWith 68-Across, drove cross country, sayMuscat-based carrierGo badLondon's provinceHype (up)Network with a six-feathered logoMany a papaya, for shortBit of notation indicating a pauseWith 47-Down, enjoy a solo mealWith 66-Across, surpass in a Coney Island contest, sayWith 67-Across, lost it