Cryptic crossword No 525
Thu 30 Jun 2022, set byPanthera
Special Instructions: Pride Month's not over yet! Four non-dictionary thematic abbreviations can be verified online.
Across
- Xe is one option, originally adopted by non-binary lecturer and revolutionary thinker (5,3)
- A selection of goodies from Stonewall (6)
- During Lil Nas X's European tour, a confused homophobe finally gets it? (6,9)
- Erect shafts taken orally (5)
- Drag queen abandons wig for leather cap? (3)
- Two women joined by their vow - but now there's only one? (5)
- Signal engineer copes with her son coming out (3-4)
- Big, hairy guy lacks the energy to achieve a great deal (7)
- Clear principles of equality mean protecting trans youth! (5)
- She fell for a cryptographic wiretapper? Oh, like in that spy drama! (3)
- Interpret clue for "power bottom" (5)
- Anger (and activism!) over rolling back of rights inspired people to rise up - with the help of this? (6,9)
- Some of Panthera's furry friends can be found in the pound (6)
- Humiliating pants written about Pride, perhaps (8)
Down
- Way into an aromantic person's heart? Elocution, primarily - speak like Yoda, you must? (10)
- "Stuck-up, asexual bastard" - Panthera's flattered (6)
- Musical set in Norwich Airport (4)
- Champion in bed? The opposite - husband's past it (6)
- Heartily asserted "love is love" (4)
- Hit parade organizers might keep their paperwork in this (3,4)
- In essence, humanist bel esprit's written up a recipe for peace and harmony (7)
- Bisexual setter picked up tips from like-minded enthusiasts regarding clear writing (7)
- She'll participate in a Pride demo, as a lesbian, but only occasionally in a riot (7)
- Secure with genderfluid identity at last - it's empowering! (4,6)
- Church invaded by topless gay men on seriously strong stuff! (7)
- Snubbed pilot, hung up on a Sapphic character, might go island-hopping in this (3,4)
- Suffering from bleeding hearts after the introduction of "progress" flags? (6)
- Pansexual Romeo verges on Italophilia, name-dropping fine white marble (6)
- Try to come up with a spiritual sound for one of Wendy Carlos's instruments? (4)
- Reviewing some intersex allosomes shows they can be arranged in ways other than an XY pair! (4)
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