Queer Crossword: “Declaration of Independence”

Across

 1 “Beat it!”

 5 Intense attraction, with “the”

 9 Charles, who could make you a man

14 Award for Ursula Le Guin

15 Surfer’s paradise

16 “Whistle ___ You Work”

17 Start of a quote by 42-Across

20 Cole Porter title city

21 Words before speak

22 Go down

23 Bygone dictator of Nureyev’s land

25 Ward of “Once and Again”

27 Suck air

30 Forbidden fruits

34 More of the quote

38 Snatch excitedly

39 “If I Were a ___ Man”

40 Piece of leg

42 Carson’s girlfriend, in “A League of Their Own”

43 Concerning

44 More of the quote

46 “Thou ___ not admit adultery” (Bible joke)

48 “Nurse Jackie” protrayer

49 Prince William, to Diana

50 Hollywood’s Rowlands

52 It’s low for a butch’s voice

55 End of the quote

59 Cher’s son Chaz

60 Kind of stimulating

61 Kitchen appliance brand

63 Kid needing a butt-whipping

64 Porn star Hartley

65 Michael Musto dirt

66 Barneys event

67 Like Lea DeLaria’s comedy

68 Arrow shaft

Down

 1 The Queen Elizabeth, et al.

 2 “Rumba king” Xavier

 3 Socrates’ market

 4 It hangs in the locker room

 5 Gardener’s long tool

 6 Trireme propellers

 7 Logical beginning

 8 Actions for Lambda Legal

 9 Leather sticker

10 Sex symbol of the silents

11 Shakespeare’s Iago, notably

12 “And another thing …”

13 Penetrate slowly

18 Ho predecessor

19 Bishop and Teasdale

24 Equal rights org.

26 Jessica of “Feud”

28 Cliche-ridden

29 Accumulated, with “up”

31 “Aladdin” password

32 Perform better than

33 Eliza’s rainy plain country

34 Gershwin and Levin

35 Gossip from Ted Casablanca, e.g.

36 Like many “Stop Aids” signs

37 Circle of Barber’s music

41 So-so Broadway work?

45 Elite Navy diver

47 Alternative to HBO

51 How two hearts may beat

53 Holly and more

54 Entire range

55 Nickelodeon explorer

56 Dry as a bone

57 Cristina of “Grey’s Anatomy”

58 Carbon compound

59 Air rifles shoot them off

62 “We ___ Family”

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