Samet's Cryptic Present (with gordianTangle!)

Samet The Turk - YouTube

SametTheTurk is a phenomenal Twitch streamer who willingly solves my cryptic puzzles, against all odds. When I discovered that he was the Twitch streamer I watched the most over the course of this year, I knew I had to make a present for him (despite it being my birthday recently, as referenced in 29A), in the form of a personalized cryptic crossword! (Ruiner should be glad he wasn't my most-watched streamer, by that logic.) I asked my friend and fellow cruciverbalist gordianTangle, who is an even more frequent watcher of Samet's streams, to assist in the construction process, and he gave me a pivotal resource: a list that Samet made of some of his most active chat populators! There are references throughout the clues to some of these chatters, such as dragonengineer97, santicor3, Totox00, frakyee, CrazyPenguin0111, lexi_thymi, LosBros, LadyofStories, praseodymiumspike, RyanFourCEO, RoboTwilight, jo_the_lurker, ROYJohnson490, jmsr525, and, of course, the two of us.

Thanks to skald for the test-solve!


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