CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Joah’s father (2 Chron. 29:12)

4 Press measures restraining angry Arab Gulf States (8)

9 His ‘Complaint’ was the subject of American writer Philip Roth’s most well-known novel (7)

11 A male wearing female’s garment going to a part of Israel (7)

12 Duck, mate! Here comes a stone! (4) 13 Like the woman getting one of Jacob’s sons (Gen. 30:13) (5)

14 End of Jazz Age covered in the ketuvim (4)

17 Nazi arch-criminal hanged in Israel in 1962 (5,8)

19 Author of ‘The Satanic Verses’ (6,7) 22 International airport 60 km north of Eilat (4)

23 Jewish priestly class - one of the others at women’s party? (5)

24 Setback for research establishment, one in Indonesian resort (4)

27 Elizaphan’s father (Num. 34:25) (7) 28 Fringes on a prayer shawl (Yiddish) (7)

29 The Shofar - shearer’s success? (4,4) 30 Ham’s son who saw his father naked (Gen. 9:22) (6)

DOWN

1 Moses’ wife, the daughter of Jethro (Ex. 2:21) (8)

2 Jewish sham convert to Christianity under The Inquisition (7)

3 Relative to visit frequently, following loss of husband (4)

5 Israel’s Prime Minister after the retirement of David Ben Gurion (189412965) (variant spelling of surname) (5,8) 6 City of almost three million, could be more (4)

7 Czech name of the notorious Theresienstadt KL (7)

8 Sacred beetle’s black leg, say, encircling a cockroach’s midriff (6)

10 Ardent young student in a Jewish religious seminary (Yiddish) (7,6) 15 Israeli city in the Lower Galil known as ‘Capital of the Jezreel Valley’ (5)

16 Breed flatfish, reportedly (5) 18 The rabbi’s wife (Yiddish) (8) 19 Passover meals (Hebrew) (7)

Ease Dad out of Israeli lake (4,3) Lawman in his element (6) ‘Tell it not in **** , publish it not in the streets of Askelon...’ (2 Sam. 1:20) (4)

Raised dais in front of the synagogue Ark (Hebrew) (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

1H Everything but what’s in the kitchen (4)

1K A general purposes vehicle (4)

2A Practise in art classes (5)

2C Delicate way it left the subtitle (6) 2N Told you love this way in (5)

4F Speciality of Essex youths (4)

4I See 2N (8)

6K A1 trade for heating (7)