Hefty but clean! Challenging solve when I only knew 41A and 79A among the themers and the others had crosses with names, uncommon words, abbreviations, etc. but I got there. Gradually expanding my men's pro soccer knowledge I guess!
(A funny moment was when I mis-read 12D as “Land surrounded by water on three sides” and came up with all kinds of theories about how PENINSULA would fit into the slot and what this would mean for some kind of special mechanism across the whole puzzle…)