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Across 4. a music hall in Paris, famous for its variety shows. 8. encounter a fierce opponent. 10. a river in northern India. 11. strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way. 12. goodbye; farewell till we meet again. 14. The Malays are a people of southeast Asia. Malacca is a region they inhabit, just south of Thailand. 16. an ancient Roman emperor and philosopher 20. of vital importance; crucial. 23. a person who whipped criminals in Russia. 25. a desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place. 26. accept and allow (behavior that is considered morally wrong or offensive) to continue. 27. having or showing one is devout. 29. a member of a southern Russian people, many of whom served as fierce cavalrymen under the Russian tsars. 31. a region in central Asia. 32. a reference to the 1917 Russian Revolution, in which the emperor, Tsar Nicholas II, was violently overthrown. 33. Pol Roger is a French champagne. Chambertin is a red French wine. 34. a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action. 35. refined and well educated. 36. a sophisticated person who can handle any situation well. 37. a fur made from the curly, wavy wool of young lambs from Astrakhan (a city of southwest Russia).

Down 1. real 2. In Aesop’s fable “The Cat and the Fox,” the fox brags of knowing many ways to escape an enemy. The cat knows only one, but is successful with it. 3. an animal pursued by a hunter, hound, predatory mammal, or bird of prey. 5. a country in central Africa 6. a French champagne. 7. a type of white French wine 9. sailors from India. 13. curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement. 15. a famous opera by the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini 17. characterized in a showing interested or concerned way. 18. a trap used for catching tigers in Myanmar, a country in Southeast Asia formerly called Burma. 19. Rio de Janeiro is a city on the coast of Brazil. 21. serve as a meal. 22. regions in the southern part of the former Russian Empire, near the Black Sea. 24. a tree branch that extends or juts out. 28. having the effect of allaying suspicion or hostility, especially through charm. 30. a tobacco pipe.