Q Puzzle
Across
1 "Spartacus" and others
6 Checks for STDs
11 Wine region of Michelangelo's land
15 Porn director Chi Chi
16 "Veronica's Closet" star
17 Ian McKellen and Elton John
18 Like an ACT UP protester
19 They have tricky tongues
20 Sphincter opening?
21 With 31-Across, Jane Rule novel
24 Gardner of "Show Boat"
25 One-time Arthur Ashe rival Nastase
26 Expected to come soon
27 Moth tail?
29 Where they say "Ooh! Long!"
31 See 21-Across
34 Gaydar, e.g.
35 Direction in a James Beard cookbook
36 Barrie's Wendy, e.g.
37 With 51-Across, Jane Rule novel
41 They're good for tricks
45 Tin Woodman's concern
46 Become husband and husband on the fly
51 See 37-Across
53 Novelist Peter
55 King in "Jesus Christ Superstar"
56 Some sex-toy batteries
57 Lie alongside
58 Non-Judy garland
59 Jane Rule novel
64 Eater of forbidden fruit, and others
66 Your place or mine
67 Language that may be vulgar
68 New Age composer John
69 Bert's longtime companion
70 One who often screws actors
71 Ziegfeld Follies costume designer
72 Gay rodeo target
73 Come together
Down
1 What a pair of drawers does
2 One who has come out
3 Tongue of Tehran
4 Circumcision performers, e.g.
5 One who looks into crystal balls
6 Powder for bottoms
7 Top
8 Side at Hamburger Mary's
9 Hatcher of _Desperate Housewives_
10 Part of DOS (abbr.)
11 Nutty ___ fruitcake
12 Singing Nancy
13 Commits a foul a la Sue Wicks
14 Word after Virgin
22 "Much ___ About Nothing"
23 Cut
28 ISP invested in PlanetOut Partners
30 Ref. for Lytton Strachey
31 Legal matter
32 Single, to Glenn Burke
33 "Can't Get It Out of My Head" rock gp.
35 Rupert Everett's "The Next ___ Thing"
38 Bill written by Alice Paul
39 Kerouac's "Big ___ "
40 Butch's mate
41 Button or Bean
42 "The Wapshot Chronicle" author
43 Most like a Kevin Williamson movie
44 "The L Word" network
47 Greenery
48 Uranus, to the sun
49 Come down hard
50 Threesome of England, France, and Russia
52 Childcare writer LeShan
53 "One of Ours" novelist Willa
54 It hangs from your butt
56 Clarinet-blower Shaw
60 Some escorts want them up front
61 Pastry with fruit, perhaps
62 Sea eagle
63 Cowboy actor Jack
65 Cho's "Pink as the Day ___ Was Born"
