CROSSWORD 925
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1 Anglo-Jewish CH and Nobel Prize winning playwright, part-holder in production (1930-2008) (6,6)
9 In a military cloak, sleep is tricky (7)
10 ...and they shall ******* one upon another... (Lev. 26:37) (7) 11 Belief, whichever way you look at it (5)
12 First tribe member mentioned in Gen. 10:18 (8)
14 Isrotel’s 5-star hotels in Eilat and Tel Aviv (5,5)
15 Reform Synagogues of Great Britain (acronym) (4)
17 Gihon, the second river coming out of Eden, covered this land (Gen. 2:13) (4) 19 Jewish-American actor with parts in ‘Good Will Hunting’, ‘Tears of the Sun’ and ‘Olympus Has Fallen’ (b.1975) (4,6)
21 Fruit for Spanish lawyers (8) 23 A lowland town captured by the Philistines (2 Chron. 28:18) (5) 25 Don’t Ask! (Yiddish) (4,3) 26 Boris ******* , born William Henry Pratt, who played the lead in the 1930’s Frankenstein movies (1887-1969) (7) 27 Anglo-Jewish dramatist, author of ‘The Kitchen’ translating learned works (1932-2016) (6,6)
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2 The international bridge over the River Jordan (7)
3 Stop, discontinue (Yiddish) (8) 4 Jacobi perhaps dismissing one direction as rubbish (Yiddish) (4) 5 Commanded to teach (10) 6 Top of scabbard set in brass is a Japanese sword-guard (5)
7 Harold ******* , Jewish-American writer of many best-selling novels (1916-1997) (7)
8 Anglo-Jewish actor who played General Orlov in the Bond ‘Octopussy’ movie (b.1937) (6,7)
9 Anglo-Jewish CBE playwright, author of ‘Amadeus’ and ‘Equus’ (1926-2016) (5,8)
13 Israeli comic actor who played Tevye in the original Broadway version of ‘Fiddler’ (1915-1977) (4,6)
16 Old convicts trail back inside they are too slow (8)
18 Moshav very close to Lebanese border about 15 km east of Nahariya (name meaning ‘guardian’) (7)
20 Friendly chat or flattery (Yiddish) (7)
22 David’s son who loved his sister Tamar (2 Sam. 13:1) (5)
24 Bias knitting’s initially held by stitch (4)