Monday Crossword — June 24, 2002 - Answers & Solutions

Complete answers for this easy crossword puzzle (15x15 grid, 76 clues). Published 6/24/2002. By Trip Payne.

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Across Answers

1 Across: West Point institution, for short (4)
USMA
5 Across: Made a gaffe (5)
ERRED
10 Across: Bathroom powder (4)
TALC
14 Across: Enter (4)
GOIN
15 Across: Exit (5)
LEAVE
16 Across: Is in arrears (4)
OWES
17 Across: Quick race (15)
HUNDREDYARDDASH
20 Across: Sisters' daughters (6)
NIECES
21 Across: It's connected to the left ventricle (5)
AORTA
22 Across: Sportscaster Garagiola (3)
JOE
24 Across: Sault ___ Marie (3)
STE
25 Across: Basketball hoop (3)
RIM
27 Across: Patriotic women's org. (3)
DAR
28 Across: Insurance company with a duck in its TV ads (5)
AFLAC
30 Across: Lament (5)
MOURN
32 Across: Engine additive letters (3)
STP
33 Across: Munchie in a brownie, perhaps (6)
WALNUT
35 Across: Doesn't wander (5)
STAYS
37 Across: Rock band with the platinum album "The Downward Spiral" (13)
NINEINCHNAILS
41 Across: Sleeping disorder (5)
APNEA
42 Across: Kind of valve in a car (6)
INTAKE
44 Across: "Leaving ___ Vegas" (3)
LAS
47 Across: Commit to memory (5)
LEARN
49 Across: Spacey of "American Beauty" (5)
KEVIN
50 Across: Granola morsel (3)
OAT
51 Across: Egyptian reptile (3)
ASP
52 Across: Praiseful poem (3)
ODE
54 Across: Big galoot (3)
APE
55 Across: Eventual oak (5)
ACORN
57 Across: Imaginary (6)
UNREAL
59 Across: 1979 nuclear accident site (15)
THREEMILEISLAND
64 Across: Pay attention to (4)
HEED
65 Across: Gift recipient (5)
DONEE
66 Across: Onetime Atlanta arena (4)
OMNI
67 Across: At loose ___ (4)
ENDS
68 Across: Oodles (5)
SCADS
69 Across: Light blade (4)
EPEE

Down Answers

1 Down: "How revolting!" (3)
UGH
2 Down: Old French coin (3)
SOU
3 Down: Liza ... with a Z (8)
MINNELLI
4 Down: "Me, myself ___" (4)
ANDI
5 Down: Put into power (5)
ELECT
6 Down: Cash in (6)
REDEEM
7 Down: Suntanners catch them (4)
RAYS
8 Down: Sister of Zsa Zsa (3)
EVA
9 Down: Architect Mies van ___ Rohe (3)
DER
10 Down: Kind of list (4)
TODO
11 Down: Medals and trophies, e.g. (6)
AWARDS
12 Down: Vampire in Anne Rice novels (6)
LESTAT
13 Down: D flat's equivalent (6)
CSHARP
18 Down: Salvation for someone stranded in the Arctic, say (11)
RESCUEPLANE
19 Down: "Whatever Lola Wants" musical (11)
DAMNYANKEES
22 Down: Long feature of a crocodile (3)
JAW
23 Down: In the blink ___ eye (4)
OFAN
25 Down: Book after Judges (4)
RUTH
26 Down: Citizen of Tehran (5)
IRANI
29 Down: Ballerina Pavlova (4)
ANNA
31 Down: Recognition from "the Academy" (5)
OSCAR
34 Down: Food spearers (5)
TINES
36 Down: Location (4)
SITE
38 Down: ___ tide (4)
NEAP
39 Down: Groovy light source (8)
LAVALAMP
40 Down: Gambol (4)
SKIP
43 Down: Chemical suffix (3)
ENE
44 Down: Despise (6)
LOATHE
45 Down: German city near the Belgian border (6)
AACHEN
46 Down: In an attic (6)
STORED
48 Down: "Really, you don't have to" (6)
NONEED
53 Down: Towels off (5)
DRIES
56 Down: Dark wines (4)
REDS
57 Down: Bone by the humerus (4)
ULNA
58 Down: Balm ingredient (4)
ALOE
60 Down: Physicians, for short (3)
MDS
61 Down: Quadrennial games org. (3)
IOC
62 Down: SSW's reverse (3)
NNE
63 Down: Casino cube (3)
DIE

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