Soap on the Ropes

Across

1 Strands, as seamen

8 Dustin Hoffman's cross-dressing role

15 Biting

16 In advance

17 Leccia, who plays 18-Across

18 One half of a soap opera couple

19 Memo start

20 Response to an online personal

22 A-mew-sing musical

23 Workers under Dr. Torres

25 Boy played by Martin and Duncan

26 Officer, to a soldier

27 "Be prepared" org.

29 AZT allotments

32 One of two ways

35 The other half of a soap opera couple

37 18-Across and 35-Across as a couple in this puzzle's soap opera

39 Chaplin widow

40 Director Elia

44 Coll. admissions criteria

45 "Try someone else"

47 Love, to Amelie Mauresmo

48 It grows in Brooklyn

49 Race site in Auden's land

50 Leg, in slang

51 Salad green

52 River of northern France

54 Sappho's "I"

56 Chappell, who plays 35-Across

59 With 64-Across, soap opera of 72 years that recently ended

63 Fifth-century pope

64 See 59-Across

66 Pull out your shooter

67 Take home

68 Gov't security

69 Without a date

70 Jackie's designer

71 Lusty deity of antiquity

72 Subj. for John Nash

Down

1 Goya's naked lady

2 They're good for tricks

3 Straps on a bed, e.g.

4 Bean of "Normal, Ohio"

5 Alec's "Star Wars" character

6 "Well done!"

7 Little rascals

8 Preconcert activity

9 Lesbian character in "She's Gotta Have It"

10 Frequently, to Emily Dickinson

11 Chef Des Jardins

12 Special effect for "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"?

13 "What's ___ for me?"

14 Cockpit predictions

21 Battery size

24 Star Wars abbr.

26 Grounded fast flier

27 Fraser's character in "Gods and Monsters"

28 Single-master

30 Hard woody one

31 Many, many moons

33 Circumcision and more

34 Wet spots on a blanket of sand

36 Getting your rear in gear

38 How to sit on your stallion

41 She played tomb raider Lara

42 Pakistani leader

43 Peter Gomes boss, with "the"

46 Put out

48 Beginning of "Hairspray"

53 Preserves meat

55 Like the space around Uranus

56 African queen

57 Rupert Everett's " ___ Life"

58 Time of "Camelot"

60 Sporty Camaro

61 Prefix with second

62 "Hollaback Girl" singer Stefani

65 Figured out

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