CROSSWORD 624

ACROSS

1 Personal trait which breaks the Tenth Commandment (12) 9 One who conspired with gunmen in purge (7) 10 Oasis resort on The Dead Sea (3,4) 11 A minor radical? (7) 12 Three (Hebrew) (7) 13 Not fully funded, is upset - and hungry! (5) 14 Follower of Jonadab’s father doesn’t drink wine (9) 16 Faint, lose consciousness (Yiddish) (9) 19 Black-eyed girl? (5) 21 King of *******-meron (Josh. 12:20) (7) 23 Heavy metal? University organised one with hesitation (7) 24 In a scramble, can go to this figure (7) 25 Popular person, though thoroughly brutal (7) 26 German philosopher who learnt Hebrew - author of ‘The Critique of Pure Reason’ (17241804) (8,4) DOWN 2 An outcast (Yiddish) (7) 3 Given new powers, penal centre became sanguinary (7)

4 Rabbinic representation of laws and interpretations not recorded in the Pentateuch (4,5) 5 Forward-looking people (5) 6 Israeli Arab village ten kilometers west of Jerusalem on Route from Abu Ghosh 3,4) 7 Ahihud’s father (Num. 34:27) (7) 8 Anglo-Jewish CBE composer of ‘The Piano’ (1944-) (7,5) 9 The rite of ‘Brit Milah’ (12) 15 Biblical mistress (9) 17 Jonah’s father (2 Kings 14:25) (7) 18 The citron fruits of Sukkot (Hebrew) (7) 19 One of the brothers mentioned in Chronicles 8:14 (7) 20 Doctor Harold *******, GP mass-murderer (7) 22 Bridge player knowing about dress fabric (5)