Puzzle

Famous Homophobes

PHOBEPUZ
Written by Kevin Broady

Across

1 Hazard for Sheehan

5 E with a queer orientation

10 Barely makes, with “out”

14 Inventor Elias

15 “___ you loud and clear!”

16 Stuff stuffed under G-strings

17 Male mating call?

18 Menotti’s middle name

19 “___ put it another way …”

20 Homophobic TV doctor of the ’70s

23 Bloom of The Producers

24 Peaks in Peru

25 Words said near crystal balls

26 Eligible for soc. sec.

27 Teakettle sound

28 Env. stuffer

31 Wilde tragedy banned in London

33 Anita, who founded the antigay group Save Our Children

36 Frugal sort

37 Quills subject

40 Move stealthily

42 Becomes wife and wife, e.g.

43 Exams on sexual technique?

45 President who called gay people “sick unfortunates”

47 Middle point

49 Mineo of Rebel Without a Cause

50 Russian commune

53 Like hard-core porn

54 Tobias pseudonym

57 Former defensive tackle Tuaolo

59 Interjection for Ernst Roehm

60 Pope who decried homosexuality as “intrinsically evil”

63 “Are you up ___?”

65 Michelangelo piece with stones of stone

66 Park of Queens

67 Ron Howard film with Ellen DeGeneres

68 Autobiography of Grace’s roommate?

69 Adolescent affliction

70 Matches a poker bet

71 Elton’s tube

72 They depend on their masters

 

Down

1 The “T” in T.E. Lawrence

2 Caesar and Antony

3 Lammies, e.g.

4 Britten’s change

5 Commands to attack

6 Sticking point

7 Beginning to come?

8 Places for plaques

9 Some Western homes

10 The Name of the Rose writer

11 He played to homophobia to help get Bush reelected in 2004

12 Put on a pedestal

13 Cincinnati gay bar

21 Friendly opening

22 Consenting votes

29 B’way locale

30 Singer Vikki

32 Blades of grass, collectively

33 Cold-cock

34 Born, to Bonheur

35 Some like them hot

37 Ancient Greek gay, perhaps

38 415, in San Francisco

39 He gunned down Harvey Milk

41 Org. that uses ball-washers

44 Belgrade resident

46 Mapa of Switched at Birth

48 Go over proofs again

50 Kahlo’s country

51 Bye Bye Birdie writer Brecher

52 Makes erect

55 Blown away

56 Mischievous type

58 Stravinsky string, perhaps

61 To Kill a Mockingbird character

62 In a lazy way

64 Boob tubes