Crossword puzzle answers: February 7, 2017

ACROSS1 Anchor's place 5 Low-lying clouds 8 Perfume bottle 12 Campfire remains 14 Adventurer, often 15 Earthen jar 16 New Orleans gridder 17 Familiar auth. 18 Roman historian 19 Indulging 21 Necessarily involve 23 At our wit's -- 24 -- Paulo, Brazil 25 Forensic science tool 26 Arcade classic (hyph.) 30 Kind of knife 32 Cube inventor 33 Make easier to swallow 37 Byron's works 38 "-- and Bess" 39 A single time 40 Almost 42 "Captain Blood" lead 43 Nozzle choice 44 Karen -- (Isak Dinesen) 45 Plea at sea 48 Boathouse gear 49 "Snow" veggie 50 Dilate 52 Cockpit reading 57 Muddy 58 The lowdown 60 Like a tablet 61 -- fixe 62 Usher's quest 63 Four-door model 64 Uses rods and cones 65 Corn serving 66 Lobby furnishing

DOWN 1 Pinch of salt 2 Hairy twin 3 Thin wedge 4 Vegas game 5 -- shui 6 Juan's gold 7 Taken off (2 wds.) 8 Battery word 9 Old war story 10 Lead Chipmunk 11 Clapton hit tune 13 Talk a blue -- 14 "The Mummy's --" 20 Quaint lodging 22 Roulette color 24 Waterlogged 26 Ont. or Que. 27 BMW rival 28 Driver with a handle 29 Refreshes the fern 30 Muscular 31 Rod-shaped bacteria (2 wds.) 33 Kind of energy 34 Black gemstone 35 Teen bane 36 Dollywood loc. 38 Idyllic place 41 Fairy-tale word 42 Thrashes about 44 Make a wager 45 Freight haulers 46 Water or rust 47 Shopping -- 49 Conspiracy 51 Skippers' OKs 52 Nowhere near 53 Men's furnishings 54 Disentangle 55 Like Beethoven 56 Ferber or Millay 59 PBS funder