Today’s Newsday Saturday Stumper is by the puzzle’s editor, Stan Newman. I started with 13-D, four letters, “Typewriters with typeballs,” a giveaway, which gave away 9-A, five letters, “De Niro’s Raging
Bull brother” and 16-A, five letters, “Crest collaborator.” Whee. But I found the bottom half of the puzzle considerably more difficult.
Some clue-and-answer pairs of note:
2-D, nine letters, “Major merger partner of 2015.” I dislike this kind of trivia.
4-D, six letters, “Belly up.” Thanks, poetry.
8-D, eight letters, “Unable to sail, say.” Adding an element of mystery to the puzzle.
9-D, eleven letters, “What Kramer saves catalogs from.” I like this kind of trivia.
11-D, five letters, “Overnight delivery specialist.” Note: specialist.
23-A, fourteen letters, “The nation’s largest power station.” Surprising to see it in a puzzle.
35-D, five letters, “Inspiration to many mathematicians.” In the online image of the print puzzle, the third column of text ends with the word many. Reading no further, I struggled for a ridiculously long time to figure out an answer.
29-A, four letters, “Ocean liner.” I was not fooled.
31-A, letters, “Number lines.” I was baffled.
33-D, nine letters, “Togetherness?” Nice.
38-D, eight letters, “Sheryl Crow and Paul McCartney.” I thought the answer might be a sign of the zodiac.
41-D, seven letters, “Windows users.” I get the joke, but are they truly users?
44-D, six letters, “Name associated with 11-Down’s time.” Some pretty rarefied trivia.
46-D, six letters, “Clash-prevention expression.” A little too Hi and Lois-y for me.
47-A, fourteen letters, “Fed people.” The answer has an odd ring to it.
48-D, five letters, “Down clue answer, often.” Nicely Stumper-y.
59-A, five letters, “Operatic Charlestonian.”A great clue.
My favorite in this puzzle: 54-A, four letters, “Gym ball.”
No spoilers; the answers are in the comments.