A Major Accomplishment

by Tim Croce

This "mid-week level" sports-themed puzzle was constructed over an amazing four-day period culminating on April 12, 2015. After completing the puzzle (spoiler), learn more about its theme by clicking here.  There is also a bonus meta: take the letters in the squares marked 11, 12, and 13, and the letter in the intersection of 16-Across and 13-Down, and anagram them!

Click here to view or download the puzzle in PDF format; here to download it as a puz file; here to download it as an ipuz file [requires the free Puzzazz app to solve]; here to solve the puzzle interactively (thanks to Jim Horne); here for the solution. Tim thanks Brent Hartzell, Martin Herbach, and yours truly for reviewing the puzzle before its posting.

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More puzzles here (all), here (sports), and here (tributes).

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