CROSSWORD

ACROSS

8 One with a lot of bottle who lifted up his hand against the king (1 Kings 11:26) (8)

9 Branch of the myrtle tree forming part of Suhkkot’s lulav (Hebrew) (6) 10 Egyptian town and busy border crossing near Eilat (4)

11 Star forming the main part of Israel’s national flag (Hebrew) (5,5)

12 Christian clergyman, taking a point to heart, may be fired (6)

14 The synagogue’s ‘Everlasting Light’ (Hebrew) (3,5)

16 Sefarim from the Dead Sea’s Qumran (7)

18 Ran round in captivity, causing terrible slaughter (7)

21 Israel’s National Anthem (Hebrew) (8)

23 Check, then apprehend (6)

25 First two characters given credit in EastEnders? (4,3,3)

27 Acting academy returning from a month in Israel (Hebrew) (4)

28 Lebanese capital city (6)

29 Circular processions around the synagogue carrying The Torah scrolls (Hebrew) (8)

DOWN

1 Funeral (Hebrew) (6)

2 One of the kings of Midian slain by the Israelites (Num. 31:8) (4)

3 Shared fuel, accommodating many retired miners (8)

4 Fancy a gin and lime, somehow, but get left out (7)

5 Journeying east, they found a plain in this land (Gen. 11:2) (6)

6 Not quite the best possible, it’s thought (4)

7 A twin (Yiddish) (8)

13 I complain, upsetting Ruth’s mother-in-law (Ruth 1:22) (5)

15 King Saul’s army commander-inchief (1 Sam. 14:50) (5) 17 Ancient kingdom of southern Mesopotamia from which Abraham was said to have come (classical spelling) (8)

19 Tevye’s shtetl (Fiddler) (8)

20 That’s bad! (Yiddish) (7) 22 A case of excessive pride (6)

24 Peace, hello, goodbye (Hebrew) (6)

26 Karl or Groucho? - both were ethnically Jewish (4)

27 Jezebel’s spouse (1 Kings 16:30) (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

1G Don’t remain indoors for ages (7) 2C Extreme point of Zen, I think (6) 2J Val and no one else sacked Rome (6)

7B We had the responsibility (4)

7L The shoemaker stuck to his last (5)

8F It’s the best policy (7)

9D I’m a pal of this animal (6)

ANSWERS TO SCRABBLE CROSSWORD 720

ACROSS Zabra, Ox, Quipu, Ten, No, Shifty, Sugar, Idle, Sag, Vivaldi, Mote, Traced, Atone, Sole DOWN Trojan, Fixture, Boa, Skype, Swain, Signal, Five, Girth, Moo, Wagon, Ace, Secret, Puddle, Bled