omg I had GANK instead of JANK for the longest time. ahahaha. other personal highlights: "YEA PAL kinda makes sense but I can't believe someone is going around calling themself YIFF chitlins??", inventing the word FABULECT, wondering if JENNN / "BURN a friend" could be plausible.
yes I'm out of touch but also yes I enjoyed this crossword! my favourite clue of all is 30D. also happy birthday!
"Bugatti" rapper that sounds like the word for the collective experience of those with my sexuality
13A
Animal that may sneeze to communicate with its brethren
15A
"An Incredible Life: The Gizmo Story", and others
16A
"Keep calm and Gizmo on", and others
18A
[read to the tune of Snow Miser] Snow Miser nose dangler
19A
Anglicized plural of a tasty Polish dish
21A
Lean, as the horse whose misfortune seemed his lot
22A
Gamers' bugaboo
23A
Shots! Shots! Shots Shots Shots Shots!
24A
Morning ___ (alias for producer Monte Hills (she's really good check her out))
25A
Prompting to come on
27A
Valve's president
28A
Debriefed?
30A
Apple installations?
31A
Pissing (off)
32A
"Didn't I do it for you?" dog breed
33A
Show indifference, oxymoronically
36A
Mad ___ ("snot Mike up puffed he" game)
38A
"I'm Not Your Daddy, I'm Your Grandpa" hitmaker ___ Chitlins
41A
L.A. ___ ("Press X to Doubt" game)
42A
Five-time Silver Slugger winner Robinson
43A
Record label featured as fill in my last themeless on the blog
44A
Woman who gave Tommy Heath something he could hold onto
45A
Triangular app morsel
47A
Billie Eilish's is 23 now! Happy birthday Billie Eilish!
48A
[Waffle]? No, [Egg on]
49A
Way for bros to embrace their masculinity (emphasis on the 5th word)
50A
Someone aspiring to become an ENT, perhaps... or, cryptically, what the letters ENT might be
52A
"Get his ass!," Zolaesquely
53A
Island known as Waladli to residents
54A
Balatro player Roffle's oath whenever the Wheel of Fortune tarot card doesn't hit its 1 in 4 chance to add an edition one of his Jokers
55A
Like the eye of round, relative to the cow
56A
"Off da ___" (22-Down song)
Verticali
1D
Set of invented words or phrases only used and understood by a small group of people (thanks, Google Doc of words I learned this year!)
2D
Sports vessel used on the Saint Lawrence River (what do you mean semi-dupe i'm just getting into the holiday spirit)
3D
"Shoot, I'm blanking"
4D
Chris "___wave" Sullivan's character on the early 2010's reboot of "The Electric Company", because of whom I picked up beatboxing at a very young age
5D
Work, work, Angelica
6D
"Are we about to hear some gossip?"
7D
BETWEEN 1&2 ft. TWICE??? (who would have thought i would put a k-pop music question mark clue in a puzzle (and a shitty, convoluted one at that))
8D
Making like a lob
9D
Character seen in the reflection of Neil Cicierega's glasses on the cover of his mashup album "Mouth Sounds"
10D
B-___ (a little better than mid)
11D
Genre for Ashwin Batish and John Mayer (not that one the other one)
14D
Classic line from a caveman
17D
Breed of our next-door neighbors' dog Faith, who I've long referred to as "Vampire Dog" ever since I was like 6 or 7
19D
Lengthy pic
20D
Numbers that probably many of your friends have
22D
Rapper born Destin Route
25D
Mobility aid that surprisingly isn't usually made of candy
26D
Miserly... SNOW Miserly even (ok fine just [Miserly])
27D
Duds
29D
Piss off
30D
It wasn't built without breaking a few eggs or whatever
32D
"___ a friend" (Billie Eilish song (happy birthday Billie Eilish!))
34D
Another nickname for her was Nobiko, from the Japanese for "stretch"
35D
___teen (what I now am, as of yesterday (sorry I was late to getting around to posting this puz I was partaking in birthday festivities (college finals (happy birthday Billie Eilish!))))
37D
Little snots
38D
"Come on, for your ol' dad!"
39D
"Deuces"
40D
Party, in 42-Down
42D
City with an Underwater Museum which I find funny because I'm 12
44D
Judy Sheindlin, e.g.
45D
Pokémon #932, the Rock Salt Pokémon
46D
Eclectic romance novelist ___ Tingle
49D
Mi amiga Ramóna solo tiene cuatro dedos en su ___ izquierda
51D
Element that's been in the New York Times Crossword the third most out of all elements, after IRON (#1) and NEON (#2)
52D
Nickname for Twitch streamer and heavy metal guitarist Justin Cook