Hope you'll try this out. I may have hung too many shiny ornaments on this Christmas tree, so please do let me know if it is still a fun solve. Grid copied from this puzzle by AceArachnid. Clue for 38A courtesy of Crosserville (though I wish I knew its origin). Photo by Content Pixie on Unsplash.
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I struggled a bit with the NW and SE corner since they're a bit disconnected from the rest, but I plowed through and enjoyed it. Thanks for the puzzle!
I said exactly the same thing to AceArachnid about their puzzle! But as I was constructing, I did see that it also made it MUCH easier to fill the grid.
https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/35115061/1966620316094929709 - the Anoymous @6:23 who that day just learned what CAMS (as clued here) are, that's me. The NYT clued CAM as [Device that converts rotary motion into linear motion], which is a straightforward clue, but I really tried to justify it as Friday-level misdirection for CAMera.