Thank you for solving it =D It has been so nice to see people come back and solve my puzzles. I don't think I could have done it without everyone's encouragement.
One who places a bet (I promise you, it's not the word you think it is)
15A
Descriptor for someone who is very knowledgeable about something (probably from reading, couldn't be me cause I don't know how to read)
16A
Speak fancily, like a bard or an orator [or a student in a public speaking competition (I don't know if these are common outside of India tbh)]
17A
What you might call me after I've been charged with damaging my neighbor's reputation (I wrote that his plants were stinky and a public nuisance)
18A
There goes Petey "_______" McGee, the wiggliest man in the West
19A
A friend of mine took a tab of this and then spent an evening talking to a tree
20A
Opposites of the dark triad people, according to popular discourse online
22A
Initialism for two of the three stock exchanges in Mainland China
23A
Thing formed by the combination of protons, neutrons and electrons
25A
Abbr. for an antidepressant I've been prescribed or a non-abbreviation for an American mattress company
26A
One of the first moves I look forward to learning when I pivot to being a fulltime ballet dancer in my 40s
27A
Pinker as a steak, maybe
29A
Start to olar, ool or adenfreude
30A
Type of daylight during which crimes sometimes happen
31A
"Okay, the crosswords are done; time for some real entertainment. _____________" The ringleader of a circus that I promised to feature in exchange for the participants red noses
34A
Like you right now of crosshare (or maybe crosswordnexus if I sent you the .puz)
35A
Me, announcing that my hair is ready | Make pretty
36A
"Thank you for solving the advent calendar, see you next year, _________________" me, non-committaly suggesting that casual communication is okay
43A
A much worse title for the Matrix
44A
Gender prefix
45A
Boney prefix
46A
Makes even, competitively
47A
Japanese lunchbox with cute little sausage octopi and apple rabbits maybe
49A
Ingests as a nutrient
50A
Measure of transportation quantity in the UK maybe
51A
Mexican thin-crust pizza
53A
When doubled, it might be an Indian expression of consternation/agitation | Initialism for a group of diseases you might get because you went to the hospital
54A
Chemical anagrams (maybe, idk)
56A
Full up
58A
Type of prom accessory that I thought was edible cause I've seen people put it in the fridge
59A
Highschool kids might wanna kill this type of singer if he's driving
60A
Makes certain
61A
I don't know Spanish, but apparently this means wives and handcuffs
Verticali
1D
Places you might take shelter in during a tornado if you live on a farm
2D
Multiples of the same part of an antenna (hope you're good with entomology lol)
3D
What you might do to your exposed hardwood floor after your smoothie falls over to make sure the moisture doesn't affect it
4D
Love poem, kinda
5D
What you should've put in instead of your hardwood floor so that you wouldn't have to 3d it
6D
"10 _____ or Less" check out lane and also a movie that I used to love when I was younger
7D
Remote places underground I intend to escape to now that I'm done with this advent calendar | School break times that are the most philosophical
8D
What people might say I did because I actually finished the darn thing
9D
from Maui
10D
Mouths
11D
Green prefix
12D
What might seem like an oxymoron but is an essential ability for marathoners
13D
Summery wind over the Aegean | What you might call someone from a place that is named after French summer
14D
Continues my farming adventures after a successful harvest
21D
Architectural curve
24D
Stoner women?
26D
"And how do you _______ to do that?" The villain asked me after I revealed my intent to stop him (I died of a laser beam shortly after)
28D
Like a gambit maybe
30D
Popeye's rival
32D
Name denoter that's unrelated to the joint [or the horse sound]
33D
A ploy or a symposium
36D
Structure for creepers and vines to grow on to
37D
Type of Leif?
38D
Kevin Bacon movie about the friends we cannot see but are always there (the friends are giant worms)
39D
Measure of cider that I had for my friend's birthday last month
40D
Salt Lake City inhabitants, stateily
41D
A side Order of whales?
42D
Stocking makers (business must be booming around this time of year)
47D
Writer Jorge Luis ____ (but because of a printing error the last letter is on another grid. don't think about it too much)