Q Puzzle: “Newman’s Men”

Across
1 Bessie of the blues
6 Mary had a little one
10 Straight, in a bar
14 Father, to Gloria Anzaldua
15 Foundation for Humanity name
16 Verb of Verlaine
17 No longer lying with one’s partner
18 Balls
19 Backup date?
20 Paul Newman’s character in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town
23 You can send one to pick up a trick on AOL
24 No. in a little black book
25 “Beats me”
29 Help out
30 Without a date
32 It’s tiny but attractive
33 Newman’s character in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth
37 Colette’s tea
38 Straddled a stallion
39 Earhart’s medium
40 Switch end
41 Threesome for Caligula
42 Newman wanted to play this character in Patricia Nell Warren’s The Front Runner
46 Tongue ending
47 Sea eagles
48 “Don we now ___ gay apparel…”
49 Family of Mary, Queen of Scots
51 The whole shebang
52 “Morally straight” org.
55 Newman’s character in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
59 Noble title for Chablis
62 Illegal block by Esera Tuaola
63 Wet spot on a blanket of sand
64 Retreat for D.H. Lawrence
65 Hang out
66 Fairy tale hag
67 Oral sex protectors
68 Cock attachment
69 Roo’s mom

Down
1 Orgasm, e.g.
2 Poles for your first mate?
3 Where to see Tom, Dick, or Harry
4 Math branch
5 Joan of Arc, allegedly
6 Lambda ___ Defense and Education Fund
7 Ball of film and TV
8 Actress Kunis of Gia
9 Like the Singing Nun
10 Former Indian head
11 Sappho’s long E
12 Prince Valiant’s boy
13 Food and wine expert Allen
21 Ancient Persian
22 ___ of Seventeen
26 Big bang cause, briefly
27 Gomer’s not at all
28 “There’s a single runner,” to Billy Bean
29 Hydrocarbon ending
30 Travels with one’s first mate
31 Model Banks
33 “Lesbians ignite!” and others
34 Get up
35 Foucault’s final word
36 AfterEllen.com editor Sarah
40 Pull a boner
42 Cabaret mister
43 The Advocate piece, e.g.
44 Publisher of same-sex couples’ legal guide
45 Queer Duck voice Jim J.
50 Immeasurably vast hole
51 Big fruit of New York?
52 Male offspring that goes either way?
53 He wrote “Englishman in New York” as a tribute to Quentin Crisp
54 Cruising, maybe
56 Tight group
57 Scot’s skirt
58 Byron poem
59 Inc., to W.H. Auden
60 Org. that comes when you break down
61 DeLuise who was in drag in Haunted Honeymoon