Queer Crossword: “Sulu Before an Election”

Across

 1 Bette, who feuded with Joan

 6 Highsmith title condiment

10 Cops under Hoover

14 Beethoven’s “F¸r ___”

15 “East of Eden” director Kazan

16 Actor Auberjonois

17 Insertion indicator

18 Tear apart

19 Synonym for Gomer’s “Shazam!”

20 With 39-Across, the start of a saying by Sulu’s portrayer

23 Whoop-de-___

24 Born, to Bonheur

25 Decorative work

28 Canadian oil company

30 Small swallows at Hung Jury

33 Greek triangle

34 Crime lab stuff

36 Barrie’s getting on in years

38 Prepare to shoot off

39 See 20-Across

43 Solidly behind

44 He wore Superman’s clothes

45 Corporate VIP

46 “Monster” star Christina

48 Taylor of “I Shot Andy Warhol”

50 Cherry variety

54 Annoy during a blow job?

55 QB’s misfire

57 Yokohama drama

58 With 68-Across, the continuation of the saying

63 Mostel of “The Producers”

65 Soon, to Shakespeare

66 City Porter loved in song

67 Closely confined

68 See 58-Across

69 Ready for action, for guys

70 Program with Chris Colfer

71 Auction web site

72 Boneheads

Down

 1 Choose a singer on “American Idol.” e.g.

 2 Los ___, of A-bomb fame

 3 Chaste people born after Leos?

 4 Frasier’s response to a client

 5 ___ Hall University

 6 Filmmaker Eisenstein

 7 Toward shelter

 8 Navel fetish accessory?

 9 “Here it is!”

10 “The German Officer’s Boy” writer Harlan

11 It’s a long story, in slang

12 Bambi character that wasn’t horny?

13 Beatty of “Roseanne”

21 Put a new label on

22 Kind of car for tots

26 “Take a crack ___”

27 Orange veggie

29 Ann Bannon’s “__ Girl Out”

31 Mapplethorpe subject Smith

32 California’s Big ___

35 La Femme of espionage

37 Shoestrings

39 Opera queen’s delight

40 Pensive piano piece by Barber, perhaps

41 Show with C. Kattan

42 Sailor, slangily

43 Start of mature ejaculation

47 “Tru” story subject

49 Laura of “Tales of the City”

51 Accustoms

52 Become aware of

53 Hamlet’s father, and more

56 Aggressive sort

59 Bargain sign at Barneys

60 Attachment often found on drawers

61 I of Lesbos

62 They move your dinghy

63 Census goal helped by gay sex (abbr.)

64 Sushi selection

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