CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 He was only 12 years old when he began to reign (2 Kings 21:1) (8)

6 Plant from Mississippi, Missouri, and South America? (6)

9 One of Pharaoh’s store-cities (Ex. 1:11) (6)

10 Weekly reading portion from The Torah (Hebrew) (8)

11 Automated operation Post Office costed badly? (8)

12 Staggered about, being wound up (6)

13 Jerusalem by its Hebrew name (12) 16 Wicked things used with the chanukkiah (12)

19 Zealot’s fortress above The Dead Sea (6)

21 Go back home, having been given a rise (not on Pesach!) (8)

23 Jew of ethnic Iberian or Oriental origin (8)

24 Long warm underpants (Yiddish) (6)

25 ****** Peres, ex-President of Israel (1945-2011) (6)

26 Rows among crowd with no time for piety (8)

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2 Immigrations to Israel (Hebrew plural) (6)

3 The number “one” in non-liturgiical Hebrew (5)

4 Novelist nom-de-plume of journalist Jonathan Freedland (3,6)

5 Dashes in rum-punch and whiskysour? (7)

6 The ‘bitter herbs’ of the Seder ritual (5) 7 A crazy idea, silly thing to do (Yiddish) (9) 8 A contribution from Adam - to the non-kosher barbecue? (5,3)

13 Jerusalem’s Holocaust Memorial Centre (3,6)

14 Gabriel, perhaps, in Siberia (9) HOW TO PLAY: Use the letter tiles from the game of Scrabble to spell out the answers to the clues below. Do not use the two blank tiles. Place the tiles on the Scrabble board according to the grid references given with the clues. If you successfully complete the puzzle, you will have used all 98 tiles.

ACROSS

1G Don’t remain indoors for ages. (7) 2C Extreme point of Zen, I think. (6) 2J Val and no one else sacked Rome. (6)

7B We had the responsibility. (4)

7L The shoemaker stuck to his last. (5)

8F It’s the best policy. (7)