What a great puzzle! I look forward to what you do next, this was very well put together.
My one nitpick (and it's only a nitpick) is with 12d: "bit of" can really only give one letter, but it's used to give two. I still solved it, but if you're selecting two letters the indicator needs to indicate pluralism.
Fun puzzle! I’d also pick a nit with 12d - I don’t think “revere” works as a definition for “awe”. You could feel awe for something you revere, but the other way around it’d have to be “reverence”.