CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 The high-priest in “Fidelio”? Yes and no! (3)

3 Disregard ‘pesach’? (8)

10 An apartment with nothing in it, on the surface (6)

11 Failing maths yet still something of a gem (8)

12 Jewish children’s religious classes (Hebrew) (6)

13 Seminal German Reform Rabbi after whom the Sternberg Centre college is named (3,5)

14 Hair treatment evens out greyly (3) 15 A trifling amount (Yiddish) (6)

18 Javan’s third son (Gen. 10:4) (7)

22 The Zealots’ fortress above The Dead Sea (6)

26 Work for the tanakh’s man of patience? (3)

27 Ancient Israeli port city under royal publishing ban! (8)

28 Weak, feeble (Yiddish) (6)

29 Israel’s southern desert (3,5)

30 Israel’s nuclear research centre (6) 31 Nothing! (Yiddish - ‘Nothing with nothing’) (8)

32 Bashful, but will have a shot (3) DOWN

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

4 One of the spies Moses sent to scout out Canaan (Num 13:12) (6)

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

6 To cry (verb - Yiddish) (6)

7 Captivate again with a change of scene? (6)

8 Jewish International sports competitor (7)

9 WWI Field marshal of note included in passage (7)

13 Noel, upstanding, accepts prohibition in this country (7)

16 Blubber may be extracted from whales obviously (3)

17 Largest Israeli and international bulk shipping line (3) 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 What one dwarf did. (7)

1L Keep silent and you’ll hear it. (6) 2A But he only had one daughter. (5) 2C Ship which won the battle. (7)

2E Sounds an expensive soap. (6)

3I Sit in another’s house. (5)

3O Also carry it. (4)

7H Present a hospital room. (5)