Solution 1

Across

  1. Covered lobby
  6. Part of a play
  9. Garbage box
12. Potato variety
13. Talk like a dove
14. Had some food
15. Outer borders
16. Suitcase grips
18. Room below the roof
20. Hardwood trees
21. Throw a fishing pole
24. Breathe in
26. Vigoda or Lincoln
27. Beer barrel
28. Shirt size
31. Resole or restitch
33. Using toys
34. Begin
35. ___ Vegas
36. Scold endlessly
37. Was still
39. Noises from 46-Across
40. Large family unit
42. Careless rapidity
44. Revolved
46. Black bird
50. Honorific poem
51. Furious feeling
52. Stage whisper
53. Join at the altar
54. Sea for the French
55. It makes dough rise

Down

  1. Treat served in a tin
  2. Strange
  3. Scrap of cloth
  4. Swindle
  5. One throwing a party
  6. Constantly painful
  7. Head of a team
  8. 2,000 pounds
  9. Swan Lake dancer
10. Agenda point
11. Loch monster
17. Put off temporarily
19. Bleacher level
21. Autos
22. Help in a crime
23. Went in different directions
25. Woeful word
27. Sets of tools
29. Chew away at
30. Hens' products
32. Stadium's center
33. Tablets for writing
35. Boss or chief
38. Neither here nor ___
39. Stop
40. See 46-Across
41. Vein of minerals
43. Cafeteria platter
45. Conway or Curry
47. Transportation term
48. Sullivan or McMahon
49. Mesh under a trapeze