First puzzle of 2023. Did everyone have a good holiday period? This is an early theme I experimented with last year but I didn't develop it fully until last week. Enjoy!
Not my best fill, I'm afraid. I liked pretty much all the set words except for 38D and 39D, and it took a while to fit the themers in the middle, so I ended up just keeping the bad words, hoping that the good words made up for it :'(