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1 Ritual Torah pointer, often fashioned in silver (Hebrew) (3)

3 The man who lifted up his hand against the king (1 Kings 11:26) (8)

10 Slavs that must be taken to bank if crossed in sound? (6)

11 After short time, Spain and Portugal together succeeded in Yam Kinneret city (8)

12 Grumbled, but made no changes (6) 13 Jewish ritual slaughter (Hebrew) (8) 14 About to swallow hot tea (3)

15 The mother of King David’s fifth son (2 Sam. 3:4) (6)

18 Movement’s name coined in 1893 by Birnbaum and Herzl (7)

22 Fifteenth letter of the Aleph Bet (6) 26 Cage bird (3)

27 Responsibility (Hebrew) (8)

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

29 Disappointed (Yiddish) (8)

30 Neutral in terms of meat or dairy (Hebrew) (6)

31 Large fur hat worn by some extreme Chasidim (Yiddish) (8)

32 The question of motive (3)

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2 Master of Nebuchadnezzar’s eunuchs (Dan 1:3) (8)

4 A prophet in Israel is Habakkuk (2 Kings 4:2) (6)

5 George ****** - composer of ‘Rumanian Rhapsody’ and others (18811955) (6)

6 Start, or I’ll take an alcoholic drink (6) 7 Second quiet month in Israeli farming settlement (Hebrew) (6)

8 Offer a bribe (Yiddish) (7)

9 Large IDF air-base south-east of Beersheva (7)

13 Israel’s Internal Security organisation (Hebrew) (4,3)

16 Deceptive description of a golf ball’s position, perhaps? (3)

17 Bottom, temporarily, of a ship (MSND) (3) 19 The expected Jewish ‘messiah’ (Hebrew) (8)

20 Jewish priestly group members in time cutting taxes (7)

21 Tea’s mostly pricy round port in part of Mesopotamia (7)

23 Jewish bread rolls the Spanish put in sacks (6)

24 Cleaner — as result of washerwomen starting their shift? (6)

25 Army strike on island, one in the South Pacific (6)

26 Home-based container for dropping charity money in (Yiddish) (6) 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.

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2C Did the earth move for you. (5)

2G Malamud the arranger. (5)

2N Hunt for the female villain. (5)

3I Peter went over to confirm it. (5) 4L Where 10J can be found. (7)

5E Compelled to be a passenger. (6) 7J No gall needed to fill this capacity. (6)