Across
1 Mabius of "The L Word"
5 Controversial path for same-sex partners
10 Tennessee Williams' _"Summer and Smoke" heroine
14 Ani DiFranco's "___ Pretty Girl"
15 Fly cry
16 Retreat for D.H. Lawrence
17 Start of a quip from Marilyn Monroe
19 "The Threepenny Opera" composer Weill
20 McDreamy on "Grey's Anatomy"
21 Helping hand
22 Outback dog
23 Dreaded ink color
25 More of the quip
27 Axes to grind
31 Ruhr industrial center
32 Diggs of "Rent"
33 Mama type, in a bar
36 ___ Tin Tin
38 Helga painter Andrew
40 More of the quip
41 Barker of horror
43 Rene Auberjonois on "Deep Space Nine"
44 "Arsonist" cow owner
47 De novo
48 Bucky Beaver's toothpaste
50 In the middle of
52 More of the quip
55 Math. course
56 Homophobia and intolerance
57 Abbott and Costello's first baseman
59 Lesbos and Man
63 Rep in the 'hood
64 End of the quip
66 160 rods
67 Halliwell's partner
68 What tail
69 Monster's loch
70 Houston ballplayer
71 The L.A. Sparks strip them
Down
1 Tennyson lady
2 Go from one gay bar to another, e.g.
3 Anatomical passage
4 Dry red wine
5 Well-kept secret, for some
6 Island of Barrie's land
7 Unemotional
8 Evans of "Dynasty"
9 Hellenic vowel
10 Eileen, who played Woolf on Broadway
11 Cleaning dirty money
12 Marion Zimmer Bradley's pen name
13 Mary of "The Maltese Falcon"
18 Barely managed, with "out"
22 Cul-___
24 Use cotton balls
26 The Eagle, to NASA
27 "A one and ___ …"
28 Fred-and-Ginger movie, with "The"
29 Morning coffees, for some
30 Kemo ___ (Tonto's male partner)
34 Mao's successor
35 Razor choice
37 Candace Gingrich's half-brother
39 Puts an edge on
42 "The Weary Blues" poet Hughes
45 Restroom, for short
46 Singer Sumac
49 Battery terminals
51 "Brothers & Sisters" producer Ken
52 Early Peruvian
53 Big jugs
54 "Gone with the Wind" character
58 ___ about
60 J. Randy Taraborrelli's "The Secret ___ of Marilyn Monroe"
61 Send off
62 Gets hard
64 Costume item for Charles Busch
65 Lennon partner
