1: Take the lid off

6: Gaucho's cattle catcher

10: Sign of healing

14: Eurasian forest

15: High point

16: Puzzle piece

17: Frequently traveled highway

19: 'You ___?' (Lurch's query)

20: Place (a bet)

21: Boat bottoms

22: Groups of actors

23: She may get sheared

24: Bread pieces, to fondue

25: Change

31: It may be tickled

32: Humdingers

33: Slice

35: Screen-measuring unit

36: Relinquish office

37: Last of Great Britain's King Henrys

38: Life story, for short

39: Payola, e.g.

40: Cut companion

41: Input for a recorder

44: Sow's opposite

45: Surgery sites, briefly

46: False things

48: Brings up

51: Mag. submissions

54: Okefenokee Swamp inhabitant of fiction

55: Sanctioned

57: Last word in prayer

58: Object of pagan worship

59: Bristles

60: Crimsons

61: Padrone

62: Insignificant sort

1: Elec., e.g.

2: Grandmother, affectionately

3: Part of a gas mileage rating

4: Historical period

5: Broad thoroughfare

6: Diminish

7: October birthstone

8: 'Shall we?' response

9: Fireman's tool

10: Meal leftovers

11: Latin lover, perhaps?

12: Your father's sister

13: Bums change

18: Appear

22: Murmurs tenderly

23: Inscribe with acid

24: Bolted

25: Excessive enthusiasm

26: Inspired with confidence

27: Kind of acid

28: Cuban steps

29: Ballet bends

30: Plush rooms

31: Little lie

34: Garbage bag closer

36: Word following eye or nose

37: Fermenting tanks

39: Preconception

40: Hang in there

42: Exorcism targets

43: Put into piles

46: Train for a title fight

47: Where the heart is, proverbially

48: Upgrade the decor

49: Qualities of the conceited

50: Feels poorly

51: Perth pal

52: Name on the marquee

53: Leak slowly

55: Freedom, briefly

56: Kitten's cry