CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Ron ****** , Israel’s ambassador to the UK during 2007 to 2011 (6)

5 Memory devices, they’re good in tens (6) 9 Drug joke engenders fit (5)

10 It, perhaps, could get uglier - so less innocent (8)

12 An outcast, his meal is cooked for him (Gen 25:17) (7)

13 Let’s change to nothing short of sparkling mineral water (7)

14 ‘Ner ***** ’ - The ‘Everlasting Light’ in front of The Ark (5)

16 All the family and all (Yiddish) (9)

18 Comedy Western movie starring Gene Wilder as a trainee rabbi travelling with Harrison Ford (1979) (6,3)

21 Moshe ***** - Israeli Defence Minister in 1993/4 (5)

22 Female singer, so quiet musically, ran round (7)

24 Country folk burst into song (7)

26 Edifices packing lots of workers (3-5) 27 Louis Armstrong striking at jerk (Yiddish) (5)

28 Come out East, and get together (6) 29 A bus broken down over the road? How ridiculous! (6)

DOWN

2 Harsh dry spell, starting late and finishing early (5)

3 Like some Jews, tough in opening of screen blockbuster (9)

4 Where the Gileadite came from in 2 Sam. 17:27 (7)

5 The fringes of a prayer shawl (Yiddish) (7)

6 The Western Wall of King Solomon’s Temple (Hebrew) (5)

7 German philosopher taking time over last letter in Chinese, strangely (9)

8 See if flight cooked up kosher starter, perhaps? (7,4)

11 Ex-Israeli PM and war hero who lay comatose for a long time (1928-2014) (5,6) 15 International anti-poverty charity organisation HQ’ed in Israel (Hebrew) (4,5)

17 Singers and analysts of King David’s poems (9)

19 A curse (Yiddish) (7) 20 Main casualty from part of IsraelJordan border? (4,3)

23 Progenitor of a Tribe of Israel whose ‘bread shall be fat’ (Gen. 49:20) (5) 25 Son of Serug and ancestor of Abraham (Gen 11:23) (5)