A comforting bowl of rice noodles and tasty beef you might find in Hanoi

Shows off one's wares, say

Prepare something that can be malty or minty (or good gossip if spilled!)

Worker on a hill

A common ending to business names in the U.S.

"I'm keep drinking the __ from my pen," Bright Eyes sang (yuck!)

People of a common affinity or type

Carly __ Jepsen, who really, really, really, really, really, really likes you

Cleave in half?

A refrain shared by activists and speculative fiction writers, with "world is possible"

Absent an enemy, put briefly

Network that aired Futurama, or cunning woodland creature

When your intergalactic coworker goes down to two days a week, in brief (and in rhyme)

"___ does it feel?"

An extreme on whichever end of the spectrum, in statistics

___ Elmo how a rock (?) is supposed to eat (???) a cookie (?!?!?!?!!?!)

Seen with hacky and knap

Competition that takes the quote in 16D's clue literally (and sweetly)

Many a nurse, for short

Country where you may order Tahdig (or Persian Crispy Rice)

A discontinued iPod variant (so smol!)

Iconic Mix with love-em-or-hate-em bagel chips

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new” - Ursula K. __ Guin

As well