Fun puzzle. Got caught having CUOMO and MOO and thinking "yeah that looks right enough" :) And I made pesto last night in a food processor with kale because I am an outlaw.
"Message ___ Bottle": song title for the Police or Taylor Swift
12A
Above, in an 17-Down
14A
"The Flight Attendant" star Kaley
16A
Divine in one's field?
18A
Words found in a hedge?
19A
F maj. relative
20A
Simmering
22A
"With a song like a dying balloon and a penchant for attacking humans, [they are] hard to love. But then again, so are most of us", per John Green
23A
___ kwon do
24A
Melody
26A
Remote control button
27A
"We didn't come here to sit and listen to the music!"
30A
Punch
31A
"No, you can't make it with spinach instead of basil. No, you can't leave out the pine nuts. No, you can't grind it in a food processor." - someone from Genoa, probably
Down
1D
Landers whom the World Almanac named the most influential woman in the United States in 1978
2D
On Twitter, a measure of how much you should have kept your opinion to yourself, calculated as the number of a tweet's replies divided by the number of likes
3D
ID on a jacket?
4D
Word with go or get
5D
Electric guitar pioneer Paul
6D
"Why are you still up? You have school in the morning!"
7D
"Go easy on me!"
8D
Awake during the daytime
9D
"Indeed, that makes sense"
10D
"That's my seat!"
13D
Extend, as a library loan
15D
Murmur
17D
Poetic paean of praise
21D
The average American makes four pounds of it per day