good large puzzle, theme was fine, i dont know her albums but the wordplay was fun. 3D gave me trouble up top right, nbever heard that, otherwise great jokes. like the 'optimistic raven' clue
Literary girl who lives at the top of New York City's Plaza Hotel
22A
*Courageous
24A
Leafy lunch
25A
Prop from the set of "Yellowstone" (or one of its many spinoffs)
26A
Even though
27A
Badge holder
29A
*Four-digit number on personal forms
31A
One of a famous septet
32A
Elder Obama daughter
33A
Stormtrooper blaster outputs
34A
Calligraphy tool
37A
Tolkien creatures
38A
End a flight
42A
Memo opener
43A
Lucy's partner
44A
Collegiate rival of 44D
45A
Less wild
46A
*Andy's pal in "The Shawshank Redemption"
47A
Fastener
48A
DEA agent, slangly
51A
*Quoth the optimistic raven?
54A
All-seeing scourge of Middle Earth
56A
Like many Sherpas
58A
Letters of debt
59A
Homes away from home, while camping
60A
"LOL" taken up a notch
61A
*It can precede you
63A
Dates casually
64A
"Nothing New" collaborator Bridgers
66A
Ready to roll
68A
Tears
71A
Italian "dance of the spider"
75A
One-third of Blink-182 or one-fourth of Sugar Ray
78A
Chess rating system
79A
Vince's agent on "Entourage"
80A
Term of endearment from Miss Piggy
81A
Terse, confident reply
83A
*Shared cultural traditions, customs, and stories
86A
-ography prefix on, say, a popstar's Wikipedia . . .
87A
Advanced baseball stat
88A
Namesake of MLB's Pirates' stadium
89A
Biblical name
90A
CD ancestors
92A
Ballerina garb
94A
Ben Affleck-directed Best Picture winner of 2012
95A
Puerto Rico, for one (abbrev.)
96A
What you're left with if you subtract a drinking support gp. from a roadside assistance provider
98A
*Hem speedily? (and also an eponymous hint for nine other clues in this puzzle)
101A
Governing philosophical principles
103A
Where you might win Best Play
104A
Tibetan holy man
105A
*When a carriage turns back into a pumpkin and when you can't feed Gremlins after
108A
Common Father's Day gifts
109A
Chomping chompers
111A
Excitable duplicative response
112A
Music to a bluffer's ears
114A
*"____ or forever hold your peace"
116A
Like Dolly the sheep
117A
Credit card sign-up promise, sometimes
118A
New York's archbishop in the 2000s
119A
"Levitating" Lipa
120A
Evening in Rome
121A
"____ Anatomy" (hint: think textbook, not TV)
122A
Fill up
123A
It's up
Down
1D
Living room staple
2D
Rod attachment
3D
Latin phrase meaning to the point of ridiculousness
4D
Fracture stabilizer
5D
Amanda of "The Whole Nine Yards" and "Saving Silverman"
6D
YouTube annoyances
7D
Leafs and Rogues
8D
Heroic collie of fiction
9D
Warren Buffett, by birth, famously
10D
Remote button with a + or -
11D
Facilitates (for better or worse)
12D
Quality of brightness or a particular beauty
13D
Feat achieved by Hulk Hogan against André the Giant at Wrestlemania III
14D
Tilt-A-Whirl e.g.
15D
Fisher of "Wedding Crashers"
16D
Oracle
20D
These (Sp.)
21D
Cowardly Lion portrayer
23D
Marie Antoinette, par exemple
28D
Matterhorn or Mont Blanc, more generally
30D
Three free consonants in "Wheel of Fortune's" bonus round
32D
Demeanor
34D
Many Christmas trees
35D
Shaq in the box score
36D
Deuce follower
39D
When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine?
40D
Steadiness
41D
Subject of a viral color dispute
44D
Collegiate rival of 44A
45D
Capote's nickname
47D
Kanga's pal
49D
Kwik-E-Mart worker
50D
Maze runner
52D
She strung together four Oscar noms and one win for "Fences"
53D
Many millennia
55D
"Yo! MTV ____"
56D
Wyo. neighbor
57D
This but not that
61D
Broadcast again
62D
He (Lat.)
63D
The sun is one
65D
Other, in Oaxaca
67D
Ostrich cousins
68D
Overhaul, like pipes
69D
Bluffer's lament when called
70D
Like opposites
72D
Overly moral Stark and Flanders
73D
Cycle starter
74D
Ambulance responders, briefly
76D
Rebukes officially
77D
20th century Egyptian monarch
79D
Booze (abbrev.)
81D
San Antonio hooper
82D
Edinburgh native
84D
Tolstoy heroine Anna
85D
Choosing to win a vote
87D
Natives from 56D
91D
Be accepted as
93D
James Joyce tome
94D
"It was ____ in the park."
96D
Last line of dialogue in "Avengers: Infinity War" (spoken by a defeated Captain America's after -- spoiler alert -- Thanos erased half of all life in the universe)