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Evelyn Benshoof
Evelyn Benshoof

New York Times, Tuesday, March 22, 1983

3-Down : Generous

Author:
Evelyn Benshoof
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 74, Blocks: 36, Avg Word Len: 5.11, Missing: { J Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 286 (avg 1.51)
Open Squares: 75, Cheaters: 4, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 2 Grid has duplicate clues.
Evelyn Benshoof has 71 known pre-Shortz puzzles in our database.
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© 1983, The New York TimesNo. 12,187
Across
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Great quantity : RAFT
5
Render helpless : SWAMP
10
Bucket : PAIL
14
Israeli seaport : ACRE
15
Any feeble light : TAPER
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Unbleached linen color : ECRU
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"___ There Eyes," 1930 song : THEM
18
Generous : ALTRUISTIC
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Leak : SEEPAGE
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Sartorially elegant : DRESSY
23
Cut : HEWED
24
___ of clay : FEET
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Dealt gently with : SPARED
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Zenith : PINNACLE
31
Unit : MONAD
32
Sweet, in Sevilla : DULCE
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Dance : HOP
34
Finale : END
35
Singer Haggard : MERLE
36
Foofaraw : ADO
37
Expert : ACE
38
Mass meeting : RALLY
39
Wounded a matador : GORED
41
Denounces as radical : REDBAITS
43
Boundary river of Texas : SABINE
44
Christie or Karenina : ANNA
45
Icy pellets : SLEET
46
Humbles : ABASES
49
Cultivated land : TILLAGE
52
Generous : BIGHEARTED
55
Some Nigerians : IBOS
56
Concerning : INRE
57
Vapid : INANE
58
Narrow aperture : SLOT
59
Globule : BEAD
60
Travail : LABOR
61
Gambling game : KENO
Down
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Mild expletive : RATS
2
Yearn : ACHE
3
Generous : FREEHANDED
4
Painting process : TEMPERA
5
Contrived : STAGED
6
Marked with welts : WALED
7
Bright : APT
8
Mal de ___ : MER
9
Discretion : PRUDENCE
10
Spanish coin : PESETA
11
New Testament book : ACTS
12
Showy flower : IRIS
13
Suffragist Stone : LUCY
19
Dunne or Castle : IRENE
21
Inspired with admiration : AWED
24
Genuine Risk in 1980 : FILLY
25
Vilification : SMEAR
26
Puerto Rican seaport : PONCE
27
Inverts stitches in knitting : PURLS
28
Generous : CHARITABLE
29
Waterproof fabric : LODEN
30
Literary work : EPODE
32
River-mouth deposit : DELTA
35
Important item on a schooner : MAINSAIL
38
Indian princess : RANEE
39
Highlander : GAEL
40
Four-sided pillar : OBELISK
42
Beat : BASHED
43
Tricky baseball pitch : SLIDER
45
"Nine to Five" figure : STENO
46
Ancient Jewish month : ABIB
47
Honeysuckle, e.g. : BINE
48
Taj Mahal site : AGRA
50
Thug : GOON
51
Last word of Missouri's motto : ESTO
53
Nucleic acid, for short : RNA
54
Check : TAB

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 4 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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