CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 The whole family, Uncle Tom Cobley and All (Yiddish) (9)

6 Club compere introduces top class entertainer’s debut (4)

9 The Book of Judges (Hebrew) (7)

10 Bait I swallowed, not being Jewish (7) 11 Is for travellers in Cairo, Aden, etc? (4) 12 Assassinated Egyptian President who came to Golda Meir’s Knesset (5,5)

14 A son of Hammolecheth (1 Chron. 7:18) (6)

15 The Book of Genesis (Hebrew) (8)

18 All told, twice (3,5)

19 Woman’s ringing me, demonstrating Mercury? (6)

22 Nazi death camp near Linz in Austria (10)

24 A major landmass, though it could be minor (4)

26 Cooked in the traditional Ashkenazi style (Yiddish) (7)

27 Bow down here? (4,3)

28 Exhausted, resting in luxurious hotel (4)

29 Awfully smart, made capital (9)

DOWN

1 Modern branch of Judaism which does not see The Torah as necessarily divinely inspired (7)

2 Organisation devoted to building bridges between Israeli and North American Jews (Hebrew = ‘roots’) (9)

3 Feel sorry for yours, at the start, positioned behind mine (4)

4 Bond that puts compiler in the money (6)

5 Impressed and serious during final (8) 6 Performed pastoral duties when awful sin merited (10)

7 Youngster told off, left shut in (5)

8 Half-seen text worried the players (6) 13 Jew, for one, not caught in second robbery (10) 16 Crazy paths made here on the Heath (9)

17 Headscarf for Russian granny (8)

18 A joyful occasion (Hebrew) (6)

20 Jewish demons (Hebrew) (7) 21 Belonging to him/her (Yiddish) (6) 23 Upstart locks up David’s Hittite victim (5)

25 Being an ascetic Jew, not born in France (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

1C When to answer around in a pub. (9) 1H A staple food. (5)

1J The gypsy rover. (8)

2F Time of year for her to feel cold. (6) 2M Other things look dried by the heat. (6)

7L The talker starts with an action. (7) 8A I’d give a leg too. (3)