Referring Clues

• Kind of symbol
• Census entry
• Questionnaire datum
• Reason for an R rating
• What an "F" may indicate
• Gender
• Perennial talk show topic
• "PG" cause
• Kind of roles
• Censor's subject
• Reason for an X rating
• Census datum
• Application datum
• Birth certificate info
• Driver's license datum
• V-chip target
• Cause for an R rating
• Kind of scene in a movie
• "___ sells" (advertising catchphrase)
• Censor's target
• Source of an androgyne's confusion
• ID information
• F on a questionnaire, e.g.
• Book by Madonna
• Census category
• Make more alluring, with "up"
• James Brown hit "___ Machine"
• Topic for Dr. Ruth
• Box to check on a form
• Reason for a 98-Across
• ___ Ed
• Questionnaire info
• "___ sells"
• It sells in advertising, they say
• Application check box
• Leading cause of birth
• Word next to M or F
• What an M may indicate
• Reason for an NC-17 rating
• Kind of kitten or goddess
• "___ and the City"
• Type of discrimination
• ___ symbol
• It is determined by chromosomes
• Same-___ marriage
• Birth certificate notation
• "Facts of life" subject
• Dr. Ruth's specialty
• Questionnaire question
• Kinsey topic
• Word after fair or opposite
• Application blank datum
• Kinsey subject
• Box on many applications
• Dr. Ruth's topic
• Kitten kind
• Datum on a driver's license
• Safe or fair follower
• Word with fair or safe
• What F or M may indicate
• Alfred Kinsey research topic
• Passport datum
• Topic of "The Hite Report"
• "Kama Sutra" subject
• Manhattan museum topic
• Increase the appeal of, with "up"
• It sells, they say
• Birth certificate datum
• Word with play or act
• See 56-Across
• Kind of kitten
• Basis for discrimination
• Opposite ___
• Talk show topic
• Driver's license info
• First Broadway play to star Mae West
• Controversial education subject
• Chromosome factor
• Item on a driver's license
• Type of education
• Question answered by "M" or "F"
• Word with "appeal" or "symbol"
• What an F may indicate
• Application line
• Survey item
• Kind of appeal
• Dr. Ruth's field
• It separates the girls from the boys
• Kinsey research topic
• Bio datum
• Discrimination basis, on occasion
• Form datum
• Female, e.g.
• Male or female, e.g.
• Topic for Carrie Bradshaw
• Survey check-off
• Topic that makes some blush
• Big seller, supposedly
• M/F determination
• Tell the difference in the field
• Survey check box
• Word with appeal or change
• Opposite ___
• Staple of advertising
• Union known for its health benefits?
• Object of some drives
• Action
• They say it sells (we'll see how this puzzle does)
• Time to come together?
• Taboo topic, sometimes
• Booty, as it were
• Activity with positions
• Group activity, at times
• Cause for a TV-MA rating
• "God's joke on human beings," à la Bette Davis
• The ___ Pistols
• Masters focus
• Scandal subject
• Application form box
• Westheimer topic
• Dr. Ruth's subject
• Westheimer subject
• Male or female
• Census stat
• Male, e.g.
• Survey datum
• Job application datum
• Questionnaire category
• Scandal topic, perhaps
• Question answered by "M" or "F"
• Word next to M or F on a form
• Subject of much magazine advice
• With 24-Down, Rusty Trombone, et al.
• Subject of many a political scandal
• Birth certrificate datum
• What F or M may denote
• Genophobe's fear
• ___ appeal
• Super seller, supposedly
• Word with fair or opposite
• Number between quinque and septem
• It sells, apparently
• It requires you to choose a position
• What an "M" might indicate
• Quinque +1
• Scandal subject, often
• Application checkbox
• Advertisers say it sells
• What an "F" might indicate
• We, as a species, have to have it [Ink Well ends June 25 - sign up at avxwords.com to keep getting great indie xwords!]
• Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second ___"
• It sells, it's said
• Prurient interest
• ___ education
• Census information
• "I can remember when the air was clean and ___ was dirty": George Burns
• Peter noted that 20-across was originally intended to help academics collaborate on projects across distances, but "is now mostly about ___"
• Type of symbol or appeal
• Possible reason for an R rating
• Madison avenue lure
• Congress
• "I don't know the question, but ___ is definitely the answer": Woody Allen
• Masters and Johnson subject
• "___ sells" (advertising maxim)
• "The birds and the bees"
• Application form datum
• Word before appeal or change
• Vital statistic
• X factor?
• See 30-Across
• It sells in advertising
• It sells, in the ad business
• Narrow box on an application
• Female, e.g,
• Survey box, sometimes
• Kinsey research focus
• Birth announcement notation
• Kinsey's field
• Determination in a prenatal exam
• One cause for an R rating
• ___ roles
• What an "F" or "M" may indicate
• Box marked "M," "F", or "Yes, please!"
• 1992 Madonna book released in Mylar
• Word before worker or symbol
• Lovemaking
• It sells
• Touchy subject?
• Masters' mastery
• Marcy Playground: "___ and Candy"
• Rolling Stones "___ Drive"
• ___ Pistols
• "I Want Your ___" George Michael
• Expert in the treatment of coital problems
• Various examples show a certain difference
• Some dangerous experiments involving gender
• The way certain counties finish makes the difference
• License info
• Cause for some TV-MA ratings
• R cause, often
• Certain counties are finished with it!
• Dr. Ruth subject
• Erotica staple
• 1992 book by Madonna
• "God's joke on human beings": Bette Davis
• What X and Y chromosomes determine
• "Let's Talk About ___" (Salt-N-Pepa)
• "___, drugs, and rock 'n' roll"
• M or F
• It shows drug's "up" times
• See 111-Down
• Biological ___
• Box on a questionnaire
• "Think you I am no stronger than my ___": Portia
• With 96 Across, objects discussed by Dr. Ruth
• Health class subject
• Study for Masters and Johnson
• G-rated movie's lack
• Recurring theme in the podcast "My Dad Wrote a Porno" (obviously)
• Word before sells or cells
• Masters study subject?
• Subtext of many an innuendo
• ___-linked trait
• "On the Basis of ___"
• ID datum
• Kinsey study
• Explicit song subject, perhaps
• 1926 Mae West play
• ID info
• ___ object
• ___ ed (often-awkward class)
• Reason for a TV-MA rating, perhaps
• Driver’s license datum
• Subject for Kinsey
• One cause of an "R" rating
• The difference making one hiss at one's former partner?
• Kinsey concentration
• Chromosome determinant
• Dr. Ruth’s field
• Some census info
• Kinsey concern
• Word after "safe" or "same"
• Word on a driver's license
• "___ is an emotion in motion": Mae West
• Basic personal datum
• "On the Basis of ___" (RBG biopic)
• Census checkbox
• Makes excuses about male or female, say?
• Splinter groups*
• Subject for Dr. Ruth
• Single letter on pet adoption papers
• Safer ___
• "The Second ___" (Simone de Beauvoir text)
• Driver's license datum symbolized by a letter
• Kind of hormone
• Identifier that isn't the same as gender
• Quinque follower
• Census info
• Female or male, e.g.
• ___ positive
• Female or male
• Points to unknown biological characteristic
• "The Last Taboo" topic
• "On the Basis of ___" (film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
• ___-positive movement
• "Emotion in motion," per Mae West
• "On the Basis of ___" (2018 legal drama)
• Netflix's "___ Education"
• Romance comes by way of getting a kiss
• Possible reason for a PG-13 rating
• Word with safe or same
• Word before "work" or "life"
• ___ positivity
• Activity that requires consent
• "Relations"
• "___ for One" (Betty Dodson book)
• Reason for some R ratings
• What many 5-Down people forgo
• Undertone of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It"
• "___ Education" (TV series)
• "Science is like ___: Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it": Richard Feynman
• Something a prenatal ultrasound can determine
• Health class topic
• Bit of census datum
• Word before "Ed" or "appeal"
• Madonna coffee table book released a day after her 1992 album "Erotica"
• Word after phone or, modernly, Zoom
• "Everything in the world is about ___ except ___" (quote often attributed to Oscar Wilde)
• It sells, in an axiom
• Possible reason for a TV-MA rating
• Subject of "the talk"
• A difference with one's spouse?
• "On the Basis of ___" (Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic)
• "Kama Sutra" topic
• "Physics is like ___: Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it" (quote attributed to Richard Feynman)
• "A conversation carried out by other means," per Peter Ustinov