Thanks, Adam! I'm at the "just doing research all the time" stage of my PhD, so the start of the school year is much like the rest of the year. Hopefully I'll be graduating in the spring though!
Breakfast chain with Mexican Tres Leches Pancakes on its menu
18A
Jeweled accessory for Catherine, Princess of Wales
19A
Ingredient in 36-Across
21A
Ingredient in 36-Across
22A
"It's a ____ news day" (okay, but is it though? and even if it is, is that enough of a reason for me to be reading about a spider on the Queen's coffin?)
23A
Loop, as of wire
24A
Type of cracker that was invented specifically to be unexciting and unstimulating
27A
Requirements for some wall clocks
28A
Recreation org. not of song (the rhythm would be a little off)
32A
18-wheelers
33A
Breathing problem
35A
"Go team!"
36A
'Tis the season for this!
39A
Spanish bear
40A
Not quite straight
41A
Nickname for Alexander or Alexandra
42A
Really feels like this should be the stock symbol for Tesla, but you have to remove the E not the A
44A
Opp. WNW
45A
Tried
46A
"Drinks are ___!"
48A
Exams for HS seniors
49A
Ingredient in 36-Across
52A
Ingredient in 36-Across
56A
Manic ___ Dream Girl (film trope)
57A
Unwind after a long day, perhaps
58A
Unpleasant scent
59A
The US Constitution was written in such a way that specifically accounted for people wanting to do this to it, but for some reason everyone's afraid to do it
60A
Raggedy doll and Rashida's "Parks and Recreation" role, for two
61A
Move, in realtor talk
62A
"___ of Innocence and Experience" (William Blake work)
63A
See 5-Across
64A
Body art, for short
Verticales
1D
"You Shook Me All Night Long" band
2D
Actress Petty
3D
Halley's Comet was either a good one or a bad one, depending what side of the Channel you were on
4D
New Jersey's Cherry Hill or Egg Harbor, for example
5D
"Not nobody, not ___!" (assertion from the Cowardly Lion singing "If I Were King of the Forest")
6D
"I took it ___ myself..."
7D
Word of advice
8D
When Juliet cries, "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
9D
On the whole
10D
"Not to ___, but I..."
11D
First word of Hamlet's soliloquy if Shakespeare had been French
12D
Raise, as children
14D
Game show contestant's shout-out
20D
The Last Frontier
21D
"Check it out!"
23D
"Quiet!"
24D
Controversial erogenous zone named after its "discoverer," Ernst Gräfenberg
25D
Turn a wine bottle into a candle, for example
26D
BBs and spitballs (this is a weak plural, sorry)
27D
It can replace the first word in 36-Across to make another common fall flavor
29D
Where you might dab some Sephora samples
30D
Secret store
31D
Leading
33D
Licoricelike flavor (which is not an ingredient in 36-Across)
34D
Liabilities opposites
37D
Bullet points on a to-do list
38D
A Japanese one is considered the most powerful in the world (as of 2022)
43D
2016 film based on a Supreme Court case starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton
45D
"Money___" (song by 1-Down)
47D
More than wants
48D
Argot
49D
Tax pros
50D
Ride to prom, maybe
51D
Animals on the Oregon Trail (I mean, I assume - I'm basing this on the computer game)