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Crossword Puzzle 8/11 – In a Number of Performances

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Written by Kevin Broady

Across

1 Da Vinci’s bridge

6 Rock Hudson’s A Farewell to ___ 

10 Vegetable dildo, for short

14 The Seven Samurai director Kurosawa

15 The African Queen, e.g.

16 Baldwin’s The ___ Corner

17 Provide food for

18 Brought forth fruit

19 Deli jarful

20 56-Across played Mary Epps in this 2013 movie

23 Noise at the Roxy

24 Brunch entree

27 Semen may be evidence on this program

30 Faith in music

33 Like a stifling relationship

35 Hosp. worker

36 Express pleasure orally

37 Scroll for the cut

38 Sandy’s sound in Annie

39 56-Across played Harriet Hayes in this 2006-07 TV series

43 It gets laid on some streets

44 Gather, after spilling one’s seed

46 Run-down neighborhood

47 Same-sex vow

48 Let the Dead Bury the Dead author Randall

50 Conductor Georg

51 Beauty and the Beast film frame

52 Meryl of The Hours

54 Star Trek sequel, briefly

56 Actress in “a number of performances”

62 Gay-friendly area of London

65 Trojans’ org.

66 8-Down had his last one in Paris

67 Think out

68 In stitches, to Edith Head

69 Dirty Dancing director Ardolino

70 Bow source in Robin Hood – Men in Tights

71 Little biker in a Gay Pride march

72 Satisfies fully

 

Down

1 Conference of the UCLA Bruins

2 “I’ve had better…”

3 Evening, in ads

4 E.M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to ___

5 Pair of studs, e.g.

6 “Dancing Queen” band

7 Hoppers down under

8 Streetcar guy

9 Type of room at a bathhouse

10 Robert Goulet musical

11 Thurman of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

12 F, in the orchestra pit

13 Bowie collaborator Brian

21 Stallion’s sound

22 Doc for lions and tigers and bears

25 Kind of dancer or fruit

26 Tongue-lashing

27 Marcia ___ (American Crime Story role for 56-Across)

28 Abercrombie & Fitch buying binges

29 Little one

31 Lucy of Charlie’s Angels

32 “___ it goes” (Ellerbee line taken from Vonnegut)

34 56-Across played Abby in this 2015 film

40 Not in the pink

41 “The closet” opening?

42 TV newsmagazine with Anderson Cooper

45 Jim of The Big Bang Theory

49 PBS helper

50 Kevin of American Beauty

53 German Surrealist Max

55 Type of award for singers, e.g.

57 Overhead predator

58 Material for Philip Johnson’s Glass House

59 Prissy hissy

60 Enjoy the scenery at a gay bar

61 Discouraging words

62 Undercover agent

63 Cheer for Lorca

64 Left in the field