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New York Times, Monday, June 24, 2002

Author:
Trip Payne
Editor:
Will Shortz
11-Down : Medals and trophies, e.g.
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
464/10/19948/3/20211
SunMonTueWedThuFriSatVariety
1034463133
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
421.5333861%
Trip Payne

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 36 Missing: {BQXZ} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 23 for Mr. Payne. Monday freshness: 29%
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© 2002, The New York Times6/24/2 ( No. 19,221 )
Across
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West Point institution, for short : USMA
5
Made a gaffe : ERRED
10
Bathroom powder : TALC
14
Enter : GOIN
15
Exit : LEAVE
16
Is in arrears : OWES
17
Quick race : HUNDREDYARDDASH
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Sisters' daughters : NIECES
21
It's connected to the left ventricle : AORTA
22
Sportscaster Garagiola : JOE
24
Sault ___ Marie : STE
25
Basketball hoop : RIM
27
Patriotic women's org. : DAR
28
Insurance company with a duck in its TV ads : AFLAC
30
Lament : MOURN
32
Engine additive letters : STP
33
Munchie in a brownie, perhaps : WALNUT
35
Doesn't wander : STAYS
37
Rock band with the platinum album "The Downward Spiral" : NINEINCHNAILS
41
Sleeping disorder : APNEA
42
Kind of valve in a car : INTAKE
44
"Leaving ___ Vegas" : LAS
47
Commit to memory : LEARN
49
Spacey of "American Beauty" : KEVIN
50
Granola morsel : OAT
51
Egyptian reptile : ASP
52
Praiseful poem : ODE
54
Big galoot : APE
55
Eventual oak : ACORN
57
Imaginary : UNREAL
59
1979 nuclear accident site : THREEMILEISLAND
64
Pay attention to : HEED
65
Gift recipient : DONEE
66
Onetime Atlanta arena : OMNI
67
At loose ___ : ENDS
68
Oodles : SCADS
69
Light blade : EPEE
Down
1
"How revolting!" : UGH
2
Old French coin : SOU
3
Liza ... with a Z : MINNELLI
4
"Me, myself ___" : ANDI
5
Put into power : ELECT
6
Cash in : REDEEM
7
Suntanners catch them : RAYS
8
Sister of Zsa Zsa : EVA
9
Architect Mies van ___ Rohe : DER
10
Kind of list : TODO
11
Medals and trophies, e.g. : AWARDS
12
Vampire in Anne Rice novels : LESTAT
13
D flat's equivalent : CSHARP
18
Salvation for someone stranded in the Arctic, say : RESCUEPLANE
19
"Whatever Lola Wants" musical : DAMNYANKEES
22
Long feature of a crocodile : JAW
23
In the blink ___ eye : OFAN
25
Book after Judges : RUTH
26
Citizen of Tehran : IRANI
29
Ballerina Pavlova : ANNA
31
Recognition from "the Academy" : OSCAR
34
Food spearers : TINES
36
Location : SITE
38
___ tide : NEAP
39
Groovy light source : LAVALAMP
40
Gambol : SKIP
43
Chemical suffix : ENE
44
Despise : LOATHE
45
German city near the Belgian border : AACHEN
46
In an attic : STORED
48
"Really, you don't have to" : NONEED
53
Towels off : DRIES
56
Dark wines : REDS
57
Bone by the humerus : ULNA
58
Balm ingredient : ALOE
60
Physicians, for short : MDS
61
Quadrennial games org. : IOC
62
SSW's reverse : NNE
63
Casino cube : DIE

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later.

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