CROSSWORD FOR TUESDAY

ACROSS

1 Cat burglar 6 Played for stakes 11 Insect 14 Cowboy flick 15 Verdi opus 16 Mama bear, in Madrid 17 Olympic missiles 18 River crosser 20 Like some humor 21 Heal over 23 Feudal subject 24 Storybook elephant 26 Dazzled 28 Looked good on 30 Non-Polynesian 31 Helena rival 32 Apologetic 33 Groom’s reply (2 wds.) 36 Latin I verb 37 Throbbed 38 — Bator 39 Force open 40 Spoken 41 Home of the blues 42 Church reading 43 Toothless whale 44 Found 47 “Peer Gynt” composer 48 Rajah’s land 49 Cultivate, as land 50 Soyuz destination 53 Copper patina 56 Next after Virgo 58 It’s easily deflated 59 Old tire made new 60 Brilliance 61 Collide with 62 Please greatly 63 Ms. Witherspoon

DOWN

1 Lincoln in-law 2 Bristle 3 Teeny-tiny (hyph.) 4 ECU issuer 5 Flying saucer 6 Succeed (2 wds.) 7 Mimic 8 Cousteau’s domain 9 Get wrong 10 Orange flower 11 Hissed and hooted 12 Custom 13 Like some communities 19 Hops stem 22 Scoundrel 25 Fit to — — 26 Unveiled 27 Tarzan, really 28 Flow slowly 29 Ex-UN member 30 Blah (hyph.) 32 Chew out 33 Hard to read 34 See regularly 35 — — even keel 37 Wings, in botany 38 Ubangi tributary 40 “Silk Stockings” hoofer 41 Auto pioneer 42 Reimbursed 43 It’s freezing! 44 Iron-rich meat 45 Russian lake 46 Data storage unit (hyph.) 47 Quebec peninsula 49 Decree 51 Fraus, in Sp. 52 Fill to excess 54 Solidify 55 TV mfr. 57 Polar cap