CROSSWORD 621

ACROSS 1 Prime Minister of Israel 1999-2001 (4,5) 6 Simply nothing added! (4) 9 Israel’s internal security service a.k.a. Shabak (4,3) 10 Alloy that is found in a golf club (7) 11 An old garden in Wiltshire, densely overgrown (4)

12 Traditional hora dance tune (Hebrew = ‘Let Us Be Joyful’) (4,6) 14 Fourth letter of the Aleph Bet (6) 15 Israeli coastal town near the Lebanese border (8) 18 Angels (sadly, not I) praise him (8) 19 Explosive concoction for a descendant of Abraham (6) 22 Israel’s third Prime Minister 1963-1969 (4,6) 24 Jewish food shop’s idle, unfortunately (4) 26 Middle Eastern snack popular in Israel (7) 27 A player with pluck (7) 28 This female left the day after, agitated (4) 29 Become pregnant (Yiddish) (9) DOWN 1 Bow down here? (4,3) 2 Anglo-Israeli telepathic spoon bender? (3,6) 3 Benjamin Netanyahu’s nickname (4) 4 Formal religious act of union in rigged trial (6) 5 The Code of Jewish Mysticism (Hebrew) (8) 6 As mediator, ‘e is received by leader of race (10) 7 Acronym name of the great tanna Shlomo Yitzchaki (1040-1105) (5)

8 Component of the Talmud comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah (6)

13 Cat and dog, perhaps, upset with bird and fish, showing Anglo-Jewish wit & TV personailty (7,3) 16 Follower of Moses finding realities tricky (9) 17 Has Colin changed name? (8) 18 Take a nap (Yiddish) (6) 20 “X” follows court order as set down (7) 21 Short cut on second Israeli farming settlement (6)

23 Smith’s stand-by reformed in old Lithuania (5)

25 Hostile country boy crossing river (4)