Crossword Puzzle Number 4248 (Medium Grid)

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1. A corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public.
4. Greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant roselike flowers.
12. A white linen liturgical vestment with sleeves.
15. Informal terms for the mouth.
16. A resident of Alabama.
17. An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
18. (informal) Of the highest quality.
19. Showing reason or sound judgment.
20. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
21. The prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races.
23. The twelfth month of the civil year.
25. A person's brother or sister.
26. A protective covering for a knife or sword.
28. Any of several Orthodox Jewish sects who reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel.
31. A toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium.
32. The second great battle of the American Civil War (1862).
35. The sixth month of the civil year.
36. Being ten more than one hundred ninety.
37. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
39. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
40. Informal terms for a mother.
41. United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955).
45. Having an oblique or slanting direction or position.
47. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
49. Remote city of Kazakhstan that (ostensibly for security reasons) was made the capital in 1998.
51. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
53. The central area of a church.
56. Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes.
57. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
59. Italian violin maker in Cremona.
61. A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
63. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
66. A radioactive transuranic element.
67. In a rakish manner.
72. English theoretical physicist who applied relativity theory to quantum mechanics and predicted the existence of antimatter and the positron (1902-1984).
74. Frogs, toads, tree toads.
76. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology.
77. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. A tricycle (usually propelled by pedalling).
80. Using speech rather than writing.
81. A light touch or stroke.
82. A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico.
83. Not in action or at work.

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1. The eighth month of the civil year.
2. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
3. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
4. A variety of leafhopper.
5. An obsolete kind of container used for distillation.
6. Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel.
7. Haunt like a ghost.
8. Something resembling the head of a nail that is used an an ornamental device.
9. Spread or diffuse through.
10. Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977).
11. Used of a single unit or thing.
12. A town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
13. United States physiologist (born in Germany) who did research on parthenogenesis (1859-1924).
14. (informal) Exceptionally good.
22. A river in southeastern France.
24. An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X.
27. A bachelor's degree in theology.
29. A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya.
30. Climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for Malacca canes.
33. Beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set.
34. A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands.
38. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
42. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring on the sea or ships.
43. An impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony.
44. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
46. Tree bearing large brown nuts containing e.g. caffeine.
48. The Palestinian uprising (beginning in 1987) against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
50. Of a yellowish brown color similar to olive drab n.
52. A form of Japanese poetry.
54. (pathology) A firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin.
55. A trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group.
58. (of securities) Not quoted on a stock exchange.
60. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
62. Jordan's port.
64. Port city that is the capital and largest city of Latvia.
65. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
68. The biblical name for ancient Syria.
69. Not easy.
70. (archaic or Scottish) Faithful and true.
71. A university in Connecticut.
73. An accountant certified by the state.
75. Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
79. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).

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