Across

• 1History already written — or a tense
• 5Intimidate — or a fixture of a dairy
• 8A play's company — or what a break may wear
• 12The name on a login
• 13Wonder that hushes a room
• 14Cookie you twist before you dunk
• 15Mahjong piece — or a bathroom square
• 16Plot for roses — or a place to crash
• 17Not fake — or the estate that isn't personal
• 18Trip on which the animals watch back
• 20First name shared by a duck and a president
• 22Sawbuck — or a flawless score
• 23Rink surface — or jewelry, slangily
• 24Works for the stage — or what a DJ drops
• 27Diary items — or contest submissions
• 31Something a punch can pin back
• 32Central African river — or the republic along it
• 34Side away from the wind
• 35Version of events — or what the statement is
• 37Ball's beauty, in a title
• 39Spelling contest — or a busy group of them
• 40In the ___ (owing)
• 41Kinds, as of dogs at a show
• 44Where a story starts — or a word's source
• 48Knight's wife, by title
• 49What a tide does after it peaks
• 51It comes in, then goes out
• 52Press for — or a strong itch to act
• 53Water closet, in London
• 54Finished — or six balls, in cricket
• 55Oboe's vibrating strip — or a marsh plant
• 56Something one chews, in a scenery role
• 57Got through a novel — same spelling in the past

Down

• 1Places — or sell-side options
• 2Largest continent
• 3One's own person
• 4Pact the diplomats seal
• 5Log getaway — or the section that isn't first
• 6Be in the hole for
• 7Event with vows, rings, and cake
• 8Intersection — or trap with no way out
• 9Surface measure — or a neighborhood
• 10Close up tight — or a barking swimmer
• 11Spilled the beans — or narrated
• 19Pulled from danger
• 21Month of harvest moons and masks
• 24Split-___ soup
• 25Resin an insect leaves behind
• 26Curve of a pitch — or of a plot
• 27Tree that walks, in Middle-earth
• 28Unwell — or poorly, as a prefix
• 29Slippery catch
• 30Bishop's seat — or take someone out
• 33The person in the mirror, grammatically
• 36Did as one was told
• 38The one who cuts your copy
• 40Machine that takes the chores
• 41What speed does to the background
• 42Still bloody — or hard to find
• 43Brink — or a slight advantage
• 45Yield — or hand over
• 46What the light bulb stands for
• 47Bookish sort, said with affection
• 50Constrictor — or a feathered wrap