Across
1 Start of a quote from 22-Across
5 Sharon of "Queer as Folk"
10 See 22-Across
14 Ward of "Once and Again"
15 Like some old buckets
16 Picks out, with "for"
17 Soft rock for bottoms
18 "Love Affair" costar Dunne
19 Gets hard
20 More of the quote
22 With 10-Across, the first openly transgender person elected to a state legislature
24 Beat barely
25 Actress Ione
26 "I Will Survive" singer Gaynor
29 Album of Etheridge
33 Mama's boys
34 Make into balls
38 Shakespearean soliloquy start
39 NASA "thumbs-up"
40 Of the body
42 Come out on top
43 More of the quote
46 Since, to J. M. Barrie
47 Gas additive
48 Former Minnesota governor Carlson
49 Shine, in some ads
51 Bill written by Alice Paul
52 End of the quote
61 Heavy horn
62 Targets for Patty Sheehan
63 Land of Sinead O'Connor
64 Othello was one
65 Writer Dykewomon
66 Foot fetish target
67 Watched intently
68 Ready for action
69 Vehicle for a snow queen?
Down
1 Barrier breaker of old
2 The Seattle Storm, for one
3 Earthen pot
4 Fudge ___ (top NFL team?)
5 Deserting one's post, to Cammermeyer
6 Inevitable online claim
7 Barely make, with "out"
8 Tickles pink
9 Rita Mae Brown's cat
10 Most pink
11 Source of oil-based lubricants
12 Katharine's "Butch Cassidy" role
13 Copies of a feminist mag.
21 "The Last King of Scotland" character
23 "Men Behaving Badly" writer Simon
26 Fed. property manager
27 Froot ___
28 Like Benjamin Britten, pitchwise
30 Dubuque denizen
31 Bear
32 Word on a lavatory door
35 Mingo portrayer Ed
36 Nutty as a fruitcake
37 Lone Star State sch.
40 Took part in a bee
41 Danes of "Romeo + Juliet"
44 Fencing phrase
45 Lacking support?
50 Colette's "The ___ One"
51 "A Room of One's Own," e.g.
52 Melissa Etheridge's "Don't Look ___"
53 Channel marker
54 Penetrating reed
55 "Hi" to Lorca
56 Liberace's style, for example
57 Get better
58 One of Bernstein's strings
59 Gardner of mystery
60 Rank Billie Jean, e.g.
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