Today’s Saturday Stumper

Today’s Newsday  Saturday Stumper is another solid sender by Kate Chin Park. As I wrote when I solved what I think was her first Stumper, “Please, more KCP Stumpers.” This one was fairly easy going until the northeast corner, which took me a good long time to figure out.

Some clue-and-answer pairs of note:

9-A, six letters, “Mix’s opposite.” From the northeast corner. Tough to see this answer.

9-D, letters, “Making possible.” See 9-A.

10-D, ten letters, “Reached back for.” Another struggle in the northeast.

11-A, four letters, “Hurried home horizontally.” Clever.

19-A, seven letters, “Most remote region.” An unusual answer.

21-A, seven letters, “Expert’s 10-second-or-so sprint.” I went to the dictionary to understand the answer.

38-D, eight letters, “Traditional plastic now sold in paper.” Huh. Something one might know without knowing that one knows it.

42-A, six letters, “Awl cousin.” I think I learned this word from a poem. Which poem?

46-A, five letters, “Digital contents displays.” That’s my kind of digital content.

48-D, five letters, “Ice plane?” I suppose the clue must carry a question mark, but I’d like it better without one.

58-A, eight letters, “State that’s above suspicion.” Yikes!

58-D, three letters, “Setting for the ’25 Oscars.” Heh.

61-A, six letters, “What pros have.” Can someone explain this answer? (Answer: yes, in the comments.)

My favorite in this puzzle: 14-D, five letters, “Check out in a small space.”

No spoilers; the answers are in the comments.