The Boys in the Band

Across

1 Masticate

5 Leathermen ride them

9 Banana treat

14 Jamie who cross-dressed on _M*A*S*H_

15 Current Amsterdam currency

16 Linney of _Tales of the City_

17 Early Ron Howard role

18 ___ all-time high

19 Spear of Minnesota

20 Start of a quote by Mart Crowley (1935-2020)

23 Out on a limb

24 Club where you can dance with a sailor

25 _The Rose_ star Bette

28 Month in Madrid

30 ___ & the Gang

34 Erotic diarist Nin

35 More of the quote

37 More of the quote

39 Org. in many spy movies

40 Always, to Emily Dickinson

41 Math subject

42 Avoided going straight

44 Inventor’s monogram

45 Velvet finish

46 Poet ___ Wu

47 Jeremy of _M. Butterfly_

49 Press package from HRC

50 Kofi Annan’s home

53 End of the quote

59 Kahlo portrayer

60

61 Historic Stonewall event

63 One with a holey bottom

64 Depp’s cross-dressing role

65 Locker room emanation

66 Where to start out

67 Since, to James M. Barrie

68 Say, “We’re just friends…” perhaps

Down

1 Handler of big bucks, in brief

2 Drag queen ___ Phace

3 Julia Roberts’ Brockovich

4 Sweaty guys embracing in a ring

5 Eavesdropper, e.g.

6 Bellybutton type

7 2015 Tomlin movie

8 Carol, for example

9 Puts in stitches, like Wanda Sykes

10 Boxer of the comics

11 Knockout

12 Coward’s confession?

13 Tart taste

21 Pink Triangle ___

22 “G’day!” sayer

25 Dull surface

26 Harden

27 “Queen of the Hop” singer Bobby

29 Env. fattener

31 The ___ beat (passive partner?)

32 Rehoboth Beach setting

33 Pluck ’em!

35 _Tales of the City_ character

36 On the decline

38 Good to eat

43 Club dancer

46 Box office buy

48 Boston leather bar

49 He stole the tarts of the Queen of Hearts

51 Iroquoian tongue

52 Cell component

53 Facetious “I see”

54 Gladly, old-style

55 Seaman’s pair

56 ___ guys (Robin Hood’s men?)

57 Baldwin staffer

58 Time for cowboys to shoot off

62 “I’ll ___ anything once”

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