1. Playground area, often → PARK
2. Fearsome felines → LIONS
3. Plus → ASSET
4. "One of These Nights" band → THEEAGLES
5. Makeshift tip collector → HAT
6. Epitome of graceful beauty → SWAN
7. Arnaz of "I Love Lucy" → DESI
8. Certain stock holder → CATTLEPEN
9. Came about → AROSE
10. Kylo ___ of "Star Wars" → REN
11. Gig of a lifetime → DREAMJOB
12. Advanced → LENT
13. Guitar, slangily → AXE
14. Front-of-the-line credential → VIPPASS
15. Cousin of a mink → STOAT
16. Cheep trills? → TWITTERS
17. Dodger's comeuppance → IRSAUDIT
18. Indoor recess locale → GYM
24. Super-excited, in slang → TURNT
26. One "T" of TNT → TRI
30. Least hale → FEEBLEST
33. Foxx of 1970s TV → REDD
35. Judge pro ___ → TEM
36. Piano pupil's practice piece → ETUDE
37. Short boxers, e.g. → PUPS
39. How some medicines are taken → ORALLY
40. Apt name for a distance runner? → MILES
42. Oldsmobile Cutlass model → CIERA
44. Like 45-Down's flaw → FATAL
45. Mythical figure undone by hubris → ICARUS
46. Prima ballerina → ETOILE
48. Uses an alternate account to play against easier opponents, in gamer-speak → SMURFS
49. Police weapon → TASER
52. Transition points → CUSPS
56. Blue Ribbon brand → PABST
57. Ice cream parlor offerings → MALTS
59. Borscht base → BEETS
61. Classic theater name → PALACE
63. Struggles with sibilant sounds → LISPS
65. Law, but not order → CAREER
66. Hints → TINGES
68. Word with record or union → LABEL
69. World capital near the Andean foothills → SANTIAGO
70. Give a twist → ROTATE
71. Downright mean → NASTY
73. Bit of wisdom → PEARL
74. Founder of the Mughal Empire → BABUR
77. String-plucking sound → TWANG
79. Sources in etymology → ROOTWORDS
80. Prone → PROSTRATE
81. Some summers, in brief → CPAS
82. Black-and-white desserts → OREOPIES
83. Université with a Pierre and Marie Curie campus → SORBONNE
85. Shell filling stations → TACOBARS
87. Basic programming command → GOTO
89. Chicken pieces → TENDERS
90. Part of AT&T: Abbr. → TEL
92. Ballet or bourrée, in Bourgogne → DANSE
97. Do a diner job → BUS
98. Gathering of moles → INTEL
100. Setting for Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" → OCEAN
102. Continued interminably → RANON
103. Discus throw at the Olympics, e.g. → EVENT
105. Buzzing nuisance → GNAT
107. Glitzy fabric → LAME
108. Like some cheese → AGED
110. "Gotcha" → ISEE
111. Blue-necked bird → EMU
112. "___ Believer" → IMA
114. Flock formation → VEE
115. Blue-winged bird → JAY