This puzzle has a wonderfully creative angle I've never seen before. State abbreviations are added to certain answers to provide information for other clues.
So, for example, at 6-Across, "Posed (for)" is SAT. Then, at 33-Down, we see "6-Across near Indianapolis?" Add IN (the abbreviation for Indiana) to SAT to get SATIN, making the answer for 33-Down SMOOTH FABRIC.
Correction: Errors in NYT puzzles are extremely rare but this crossword has one. The clue for 30 Across reads "New Jersey town bordering Rahway" and the answer is ISELIN. It turns out they're very close together but they don't actually touch. You can see for yourself in these closeup maps of Iselin and Rahway.
1 E | 2 X | 3 T | 4 R | 5 A | 6 S | 7 A | 8 T | 9 D | 10 O | 11 G | 12 A | 13 M | 14 O | 15 E | 16 B | 17 A |
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18 W | I | L | E | S | 19 I | V | E | 20 I | K | E | 21 M | A | U | L | E | D |
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22 E | X | C | I | T | 23 E | M | E | N | 24 T | 25 G | A | R | 26 D | E | N | T | O | O | L |
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27 N | O | L | O | 28 D | A | 29 I | S | Y | 30 I | S | E | L | I | N | ||||||
31 O | 32 P | 33 S | 34 C | O | N | 35 S | R | I | 36 C | O | S | T | A | |||||||
37 R | O | M | 38 O | P | E | 39 R | 40 A | S | I | N | 41 G | E | R | 42 Y | 43 E | 44 A | 45 H |
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46 G | R | O | 47 U | S | E | 48 E | T | E | S | 49 A | D | A | 50 M | 51 S | A | G | O |
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52 C | O | N | T | R | 53 A | S | T | 54 A | S | A | M | A | 55 N | 56 S | R | O |
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57 B | I | T | S | 58 C | O | N | 59 C | 60 E | N | T | R | A | T | E | 61 T | O | P |
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62 U | N | H | E | 63 A | 64 L | E | D | 65 A | V | E | R | S | 66 R | I | 67 M | E | ||||
68 D | E | F | A | M | E | D | 69 P | R | I | M | O | 70 S | O | L | A | R | 71 I | 72 A |
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73 A | L | I | A | 74 P | O | E | T | I | 75 G | U | N | S | T | A | N | D |
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76 L | 77 O | B | 78 S | P | 79 L | I | T | S | E | C | 80 O | N | D | 81 A | N | A | S |
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82 E | R | R | 83 S | T | E | N | T | S | 84 R | A | S | 85 P | 86 U | T | I | N | ||||
87 N | C | I | 88 S | 89 O | D | I | E | 90 H | 91 O | U | R | 92 E | N | A | M | E | 93 L |
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94 T | A | C | T | 95 P | O | D | 96 D | E | D | P | L | 97 A | N | T | 98 A | L | E |
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99 A | 100 I | 101 D | A | N | 102 E | R | E | 103 R | C | A | 104 L | Y | E |
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105 V | 106 E | R | S | U | S | 107 S | C | O | U | 108 T | 109 M | I | S | 110 C | ||||||
111 B | I | R | T | H | S | T | 112 O | N | E | 113 M | O | 114 R | A | L | T | E | 115 N | 116 E | 117 T |
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118 O | C | E | L | O | T | 119 B | U | N | 120 W | A | D | 121 E | D | U | C | E |
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122 B | E | S | E | T | S | 123 S | G | T | 124 S | P | A | 125 D | E | M | O | N |
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