NYT Crossword hints

1 Across: This puzzle's subject (6 letters)

7 Across: One of the Three Musketeers (5 letters)

12 Across: Repeated words in the chorus of "Sweet Child o' Mine" (3 letters)

15 Across: Sidewalk adjoiner (4 letters)

19 Across: Alternative to Parmesan (6 letters)

20 Across: Bar order (5 letters)

21 Across: Piece of pet furniture (8 letters)

23 Across: Member of the largest contiguous empire in history (6 letters)

24 Across: What might be pulled when pulling one's leg, informally (5 letters)

25 Across: Heat, as peanuts (8 letters)

26 Across: Roald Dahl title character who subsists on "snozzcumbers," with "the" (3 letters)

27 Across: How one might feel after a big meal (6 letters)

29 Across: Like a juicy fruit (5 letters)

30 Across: Appetizers, entree or dessert (14 letters)

36 Across: Lead-in to coin (4 letters)

39 Across: Lacking excess (4 letters)

40 Across: Streaming channel? (6 letters)

41 Across: ___ Vista, Calif. (4 letters)

42 Across: Handed out new hands (7 letters)

45 Across: Dude (5 letters)

46 Across: Not as straight, as hair (6 letters)

48 Across: Son of Seth (4 letters)

49 Across: Only cardinal direction not found in a U.S. state name (4 letters)

52 Across: Hungers (9 letters)

54 Across: Composer Zimmer (4 letters)

55 Across: Herbal sugar substitute (6 letters)

58 Across: Titular fictional heroine from the Alps (5 letters)

59 Across: Payment inits. found in "debt-free" (3 letters)

60 Across: Wielder of the hammer Mjölnir, in myth (4 letters)

61 Across: Modern moviemaking tech (3 letters)

63 Across: Burton who hosted PBS's "Reading Rainbow" (5 letters)

66 Across: Court defense (5 letters)

69 Across: Slingshot ammo (9 letters)

71 Across: Rome's ___ Fountain (5 letters)

72 Across: Kidney-related (5 letters)

73 Across: Greek goddess whose chariot is pulled by Firebright and Daybright (3 letters)

74 Across: County north of San Francisco (4 letters)

75 Across: Wyo. neighbor (3 letters)

76 Across: Most overdone (7 letters)

78 Across: "So cute!!" (6 letters)

81 Across: Seconds, say (4 letters)

82 Across: It's not a big dill (7 letters)

84 Across: Leak out (4 letters)

85 Across: Teensy (4 letters)

86 Across: Eagle nests (6 letters)

87 Across: Venomous snake (5 letters)

92 Across: Feline with distinctive blue eyes (7 letters)

94 Across: Like a 1958 doubled die penny (4 letters)

95 Across: Steady, low sounds (6 letters)

97 Across: Caesar's years (4 letters)

98 Across: Opposite of sharpen (4 letters)

99 Across: Out of sight (14 letters)

103 Across: Versace's parent company (5 letters)

105 Across: Soccer star Messi (6 letters)

106 Across: Opposite of menos, in Spanish (3 letters)

109 Across: Sheer bunk (8 letters)

112 Across: Skillful (5 letters)

113 Across: Beethoven work originally titled "Bonaparte" (6 letters)

116 Across: Vague response to "When?" (8 letters)

117 Across: No fan of company (5 letters)

118 Across: In an unpleasant way (6 letters)

119 Across: Complaint (4 letters)

120 Across: Number of legs on a butterfly (3 letters)

121 Across: Impatient (5 letters)

122 Across: Its famous holes are formed by propionibacteria (11 letters)

1 Down: Sweet and gentle sort (4 letters)

2 Down: Starting from (4 letters)

3 Down: Play using all seven tiles in Scrabble (5 letters)

4 Down: It's used over the counter (3 letters)

5 Down: Before (3 letters)

6 Down: Spun yarns (9 letters)

7 Down: Improvised (5 letters)

8 Down: Casts a wide net? (6 letters)

9 Down: Male pronoun (7 letters)

10 Down: "When I say 'go' ..." (7 letters)

11 Down: "The Brain — is wider than the ___": Dickinson (3 letters)

12 Down: Condition that may be treated with C.B.T. (3 letters)

13 Down: Angelic instruments (5 letters)

14 Down: Taylor Swift hit with the lyric "You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye" (5 letters)

15 Down: Unit in the game Clue (11 letters)

16 Down: "Well, the good thing is ..." (15 letters)

17 Down: They might be targeted (3 letters)

18 Down: Symbol for a stop on a subway map (3 letters)

22 Down: Wine label word (3 letters)

28 Down: Go off on (6 letters)

31 Down: "___ your heart!" (5 letters)

32 Down: Mariners' domain (3 letters)

33 Down: Source of wealth for John D. Rockefeller (3 letters)

34 Down: Alma mater of Jackie Robinson and Arthur Ashe, in brief (4 letters)

35 Down: Collect, as rewards (4 letters)

37 Down: Exuberance (4 letters)

38 Down: Locales of tiny drums (4 letters)

42 Down: Try again (6 letters)

43 Down: Give permission to (6 letters)

44 Down: "I'm still talking!" (15 letters)

46 Down: Like the hours before dawn (3 letters)

47 Down: Slanted (5 letters)

50 Down: Short arguments (6 letters)

51 Down: Kelly Ripa or Jimmy Kimmel (6 letters)

53 Down: Pride of Punxsutawney (4 letters)

56 Down: Ammonium or sulfate (3 letters)

57 Down: Spot for sports (5 letters)

61 Down: Pitch raisers for guitarists (5 letters)

62 Down: Menacing look (5 letters)

64 Down: Staves off (6 letters)

65 Down: Sirloin alternative (6 letters)

67 Down: Many a shipwreck site (11 letters)

68 Down: "Looks good to me," tersely (5 letters)

69 Down: Observed (4 letters)

70 Down: Bundle (3 letters)

77 Down: "___ the season …" (3 letters)

79 Down: Parting words to a driver leaving in a storm (6 letters)

80 Down: Like jellyfish … but not books about jellyfish? (9 letters)

81 Down: Ape (5 letters)

82 Down: Duds (4 letters)

83 Down: Recover from injury (4 letters)

87 Down: Cable channel that awards V.M.A.s (3 letters)

88 Down: Common poke ingredient (3 letters)

89 Down: "___ Doubtfire" (3 letters)

90 Down: Take further than one's predecessors (7 letters)

91 Down: Peaceful kind of music (7 letters)

93 Down: ___ Arbor (3 letters)

96 Down: Calculus calculations (6 letters)

99 Down: Golden Globe winner Elba (5 letters)

100 Down: Grand Slam tournament winner Osaka (5 letters)

101 Down: What a ticket gets you (5 letters)

102 Down: Islamic rulers (5 letters)

104 Down: "Without ___, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable": George Bernard Shaw (3 letters)

107 Down: Oft-torn body parts, in brief (4 letters)

108 Down: "Smile!" (9 letters)

109 Down: Computer cable type (3 letters)

110 Down: Low digit (3 letters)

111 Down: Cowboy nickname (3 letters)

112 Down: Carte preceder (3 letters)

114 Down: Quarrel (3 letters)

115 Down: Opposite of non (3 letters)