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
