Lead-in to normative Crossword Clue

• Prefix meaning "different"

  New York Times · Monday, December 20, 2021 · 6 letters

• Straight

  New York Times · Friday, August 7, 2020 · 6 letters

• Nongay, typically

  New York Times · Wednesday, July 5, 2017 · 6 letters

• Not homo-

  New York Times · Tuesday, September 2, 2014 · 6 letters

• Prefix with sexual

  New York Times · Monday, January 20, 2014 · 6 letters

• Straight man?

  New York Times · Sunday, December 28, 2003 · 6 letters

• Boy-girl

  New York Times · Thursday, January 9, 2003 · 6 letters

• Sexual classification

  New York Times · Friday, March 13, 1998 · 6 letters

More clues from this crossword

• 9-Down Technology used in seafloor mapping
• 10-Across Transports not allowed on highways, in brief
• 10-Down Vape's lack
• 11-Down Most lachrymose
• 12-Down Kind of electrons on the outermost shell of an atom
• 13-Down Dancer's haul
• 14-Across Homecoming, of a sort?
• 16-Across Protection against tampering
• 17-Across Breath
• 18-Down Lorelai's place of business on "Gilmore Girls"
• 19-Across Marathoner's focus
• 20-Across Trial figure