CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Congregation of at least ten males for the purposes of prayer (Hebrew) (6)

4 Kaballistic ‘contraction/condensation’ as in ‘the creation’ (Hebrew) (8)

9 Levi’s eldest son (Ex. 6:16) (7)

11 Israeli city in the Sharon Plain bordered by Herzliya (7)

12 **** Uris - author of ‘Exodus’ - - either way, he’s a man (4)

13 Ashkenazi cows’ feet in jelly (Yiddish) (5)

14 Big sprawling nothing - that’s a desert (4)

17 The sixth month of the Israeli civil year and twelfth month of the ecclesiastical year (variant spelling) (5)

18 People nibbling between meals teeth (slang) (Yiddish) (7)

21 Tongue from a sheep, excellent cold (7) 22 Unlucky chap in the Nevi’im who had a whale of a time (5)

25 **** Chodesh - the first of every month (Hebrew) (4)

26 The yellow citron fruit of Sukkot (Hebrew) (5)

28 The wine’s bouquet - for results, put it to the grindstone (4)

31 One from Tel Aviv playing solitaire, but not having to? (7)

32 Current President of Iran (7)

33 Go back home, having been given a rise (but not at Pesach!) (8)

34 Small Lubavitch prayer-house (Yiddish) (6)

DOWN

1 The scroll of the Story of Esther (Hebrew = scroll)) (8)

2 No way to hold court in this Jewish charity for the disabled (7)

3 Bill, man getting hurt (4) 5 One of the sons of Rehuel (Gen. 36:16) (5)

6 Crowd kept outside a Dead Sea kingdom of old (4)

7 Bar Kokhba’s adherents who defied Rome (7)

8 Evening prayer - also an Israeli Hebrew language newspaper (Hebrew) (6)

10 Israeli coastal resort city 30km north of Tel Aviv (7)

15 Upstart locks up lustful David’s Hittite victim (2 Sam. 11:3) (5)

16 Jim’s puzzled about East, and current period of Japanese history (5)

19 “Help!” the fool said... (7)

20 ...a fool, jerk, sucker (Yiddish) (8)

21 Succeeded getting into a country, an ancient biblical kingdom (7) 23 Resurgent racist borne on a zimmer frame (7)

24 Spinning top toy popular at Chanukkah (Yiddish) (6)

27 Extended family - old Israel had twelve of them (5)

29 Give up in a nice decent way (4)

30 Naomi’s daughter-in-law - she could, of course, get hurt (4) 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

1B Destroy the Hesperus. (5)

1D If it’s hazy on tee play dice instead. (7) 1O And for all that, it’s final. (4)

2G Almost facing the permits. (3 -1- 3) 2L A bee could carry out this plan. (5)

5J No! He does sharpen it. (4)

7B Children may train on these. (8)

7N Silly mid off. (3)