Lesson VIII-5: Foreign Relations All the people calling on the red phone sound pretty frantic, but if they won't bother to learn English, you're not going to bother to talk to them.

UN-Speakable

You enter the office of Panglossia Pandemonia, Hell's ambassador to the United Nations. "Ah, my new intern. Good to see you." She removes two pieces of paper from a folder on her desk. "If you're going to efficiently wreak havoc in the world of government, you'll need to be able to wreak havoc on the governments of the world. Which means being able to speak their languages. So before I accept you as an intern, you'll need to take this little test. It's a crossword, but the answers are in multiple languages. You have to figure out which languages, but answers to clues that are the same color are all in the same language. Some entries are unclued; those are all in the same language as each other, and you'll see what to do with those. I hope you have a good ear."

You look around for a place to work. She waves you to a cushy-looking seat. Noting your admiring look, she says, "Isn't it plush? I just had my office refurbished." Her secretary enters and hands her a cup of cocoa. "Thanks, Lulu, you're a doll." Panglossia whispers, "She could barely speak English when she started, but she's learned a lot." You're about to ask for your own cup of coffee, but Panglossia stops you. "I doubt you're familiar with her language, tiger."

Across

1
See acrostic
5
Apollo 11 landed there
9
See-through
12
Half the cube root of 2-Down
13
Forbidden
14
Ill-tempered, to a Brit
15
Haiku or sonnet
16
Act like a supervisor
17
Took a picture of
18
Like a hale woman
21
See acrostic: 2 wds.
24
Wound-up length of yarn
25
Baseball venue
27
Series of concerts
28
Day preceding Wednesday
29
See acrostic
31
Pesticide brand
32
Time from dawn to noon
33
Make less visibly distinct
34
It's said after a "Thank you"
35
End of a musical movement
37
To a great extent
39
Winter wear
41
Not an "and" or "if"
43
To run through, as with an icepick
45
Dance move
47
See acrostic
48
Last in a series
49
Those guys
50
Oily yellow liquid used as a textile lubricant
51
St. Patrick's Day event
52
Odie or Rin Tin Tin

Down

1
Retains
2
Number of bits in a byte
3
New Zealand parrot
4
Jet setters and their peers: 2 wds.
5
To make very tired
6
On top of
7
Hot off the press
8
Embarrassed
9
Try to find
10
See acrostic
11
Period of postponement
19
Answer halfway between yes and no
20
Color of the night
22
Lyricist's creations
23
Sometime from now
24
Painter's protector
25
Run one's fingers over
26
Simon Le Bon was hungry like this animal
27
To a high degree
30
"What is the       velocity of an unladen swallow?"
33
A conductor waves one
36
Needing a bath
37
Bunch
38
Classroom measuring tool
39
Material for making airplanes?
40
See acrostic
41
"      Lucy"
42
It's posted by defendants
44
See acrostic
46
Observed
A. Translation of 1-Across116121827
B. Translation of 21-Across 111791520
C. Translation of 29-Across 71019
D. Translation of 47-Across 326521
E. Translation of 10-Down 8302
F. Translation of 40-Down 2962422
G. Translation of 44-Down 14413282523