ACROSS
1. The month following March and preceding May.
4. An anagram that means the opposite of the original word or phrase.
12. The corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm.
15. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
16. Confidently optimistic and cheerful.
17. Any high mountain.
18. The jurisdiction or office of an abbot.
20. Especially of a ship's lines etc.
21. Small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces.
22. A region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo.
24. A narrow zigzag ribbon used as trimming.
26. Being nine more than forty.
29. A small island.
30. A rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element.
32. A setting in which something can be displayed to best effect.
36. An ancient city in southeastern Greece.
39. Not out.
40. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
42. Flesh of young Atlantic cod weighing up to 2 pounds.
43. A gait in which steps and hops alternate.
46. A branch of the Tai languages.
47. God of wealth and love.
49. An inflammatory complication of leprosy that results in painful skin lesions on the arms and legs and face.
50. Belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself).
51. Inaccessible and sparsely populated.
54. That is to say.
55. Relating to or derived from a glacier.
58. Painful from having the skin abraded.
60. Belonging to some prior time.
62. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
65. Small deer of Japan with slightly forked antlers.
68. Of a pale to moderate grayish violet color n.
71. Antibacterial agent (trade names Mandelamine and Urex) that is contained in many products that are used to treat urinary infections.
73. Having help.
74. A river in northwestern Russia flowing generally west into the Gulf of Finland.
75. Untanned hide especially of cattle.
77. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
78. A hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head.
79. A festival featuring African-American culture.
80. A rapid escape (as by criminals).
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DOWN
1. By bad luck.
2. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
3. Spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
4. United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957).
5. A negative.
6. A state in east central United States.
7. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
8. A burst of deep loud hearty laughter.
9. The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil.
10. Inability to urinate.
11. A genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae.
12. A small unit serving as the nucleus of a larger political movement.
13. English essayist (1775-1834).
14. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
19. A city and port in northern Jutland.
23. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
25. Free from dirt or impurities.
27. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
28. The largest of the four main islands of Japan.
31. A purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens.
33. An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
34. Very pleasing to the eye.
35. Forming or set at an angle.
37. A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea.
38. Wet through and through.
41. European strong-scented perennial herb with gray-green bitter-tasting leaves.
44. Plaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper.
45. The state prevailing during the absence of war.
48. Basically shredded cabbage.
52. A genus of Paridae.
53. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
56. Having a common axis.
57. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
59. Of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism.
61. An ancient port city in southwestern Spain.
63. The chief solid component of mammalian urine.
64. (New Testament) Disciple of Jesus.
66. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri.
67. Austrian chemist who did research on carotenoids and vitamins (1900-1967).
69. Prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635).
70. Mild yellow Dutch cheese made in balls.
72. (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
76. An official prosecutor for a judicial district.
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