CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Waterway the Israelites crossed into The Promised Land (3,5,6)

9 Upper economic classes do crosswords? Pardon? (7)

10 Prophetess had robe altered (7)

11 Former Olympic boss turns up in Egypt (4)

12 King of Israel sees his father about six (5)

13 You can rise fifty-one feet with this (4)

16 Israeli airman classified as MIA since 1986 (3,4)

17 Tabernacle or ‘The Dwelling-place of God’ (Hebrew) (7)

18 Prize student upset choral society’s leader (7)

21 Marvellous thing, keeping motorway clear somehow (7)

23 You have to go very slowly in Finchley (4)

24 Out of cash? Hide last of it! (5)

25 Orchestral player’s award covering second position in podium (4)

28 Torah Book on anaesthetics? (7) 29 Bread from college dining area brought over after tea (7)

30 Holiday celebrated on the 22nd day of Tishrei (7,7)

DOWN

1 These aren’t gross sins? Possibly (14) 2 Jewish sculptor out of step with a German (7)

3 Doing nothing, one gets led off (4)

4 Valuable stone, but small in type (7) 5 Our religion almost bound to take over platform (7)

6 King of Midian slain by the Israelites (Num. 31:8) (4) 7 Warm and weary - not travelling well aloft (7)

8 The ‘Bridegroom of Genesis’ (Hebrew) (6,8)

14 Artist left in American mountains (5) 15 Taking too much interest (5)

19 Wisdom (Hebrew/Yiddish) (7)

20 Leeds-based baker of matzot and allied products (7)

21 Peace and quiet (Yiddish) (7) 22 Craftsman whose work is beneath most of us (7)

26 Is it stitched up in a coal mine? (4) 27 Chanukkah song - ‘ **** Tsur’ (‘Rock of Ages’) (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

1E Rally got off to a sticky start. (8) 1I A type of butter. (4)

1L He knows the cost of everything. (6)

2C Keeper’s reply to 2A. (6)

2O A strong rail for a delicate body. (5)

3G Tonic lifts the spirit. (7)