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Fortune

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Answers to clues:

ACROSS
  (Item, pt. II)
  (Item, pt. III)
  MANN ACT (MANNA + CT)
  NONZERO (N + ONZE + [st]RO[ve])
  SLIM JIM (SL[y] + MIMI reversed, "getting" J)
  (Item, pt. I)

DOWN
  BIOTA (B + IOTA)
  ELLEN ([h]ELLEN[e])
  INT'L (LINT anagrammed)
  JENI (JE + IN reversed)
  MOONSET (NOT SOME, anagrammed)
  SNOBDOM (MOB DONS, anagrammed)
  TORIC (TORI + C)

Arranged in a 7x7 barred grid with mirror symmetry:

So "What you should bring us, part I/II/III" are thus "ten billion dollars." When they bring $10,000,000,000 they get the answer, SILVERBACK.