This interpretation doesn't match today's NYT 100%, and also lacks symmetry, but I couldn't let myself pass on the punny revealer. Today's NYT author: Samuel A. Donaldson
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You do a fantastic job with these, i really enjoy seeing how you've adapted the Sunday theme to something different. Always a good challenge, even knowing the trick going in.
yup definitely gonna have a TOCK8DWith 13A, mixologist's mix-up (as represented in the highlighted pairs)? [What do you call someone using a stirrer in a bar? A Spooner?][----]MALE13ASee 8D[----] later
Focus of Australian scientist Dr Karl Kruszelnicki's navel-gazing study, for which he won the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize
9A
For, for those in the country whose abbreviation is 9A9AFor, for those in the country whose abbreviation is 9A[---]
10A
Elaborate invitations made by high school students
13A
See 8D8DWith 13A, mixologist's mix-up (as represented in the highlighted pairs)? [What do you call someone using a stirrer in a bar? A Spooner?][----]
14A
The first film both distributed by a streaming service and the first film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to win Best Picture, earlier this year
15A
Norm (abbr.)
16A
Ends of some matches (abbr.)
Down
1D
"I was overcome with mirth", but in a chatroom
2D
Street performer often struggling against the wind or trapped inside a box
With 13A13ASee 8D[----], mixologist's mix-up (as represented in the highlighted pairs)? [What do you call someone using a stirrer in a bar? A Spooner?]
10D
Leaders of Commonwealth nations (abbr.)
11D
Chinese zodiac animal [taken from today's NYT crossword]
12D
Phillipa ___, American actress who was the original Eliza in "Hamilton"