SHABBAT SCRABBLE

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SOLVE OUR Shabbat-friendly crossword. Writing is not required — just use your Scrabble board and tiles to spell out the answers to the cryptic clues.

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

1B College shoes. (6)

1G Gad, What an exclamation. (5) 1I It’s Jo who holds things up. (5) 2E Win with this vintage car. (7)

2L Opinion in sight of a decimal. (4,5)

2N A damp and flowing nose. (6) 5H Shut up one after the other. (6) 8C Not just any old loud speaker. (6)

9J Spoken by a brave learner. (6) 10F Entrance almost asleep. (6) 12M Road rage, reportedly. (4)

DOWN

2I He wants to twist again. (6) 3A Cast a bid from the coffer. (5) 5B Rise quite indispensably. (9) 6L Ma won’t put up with this animal. (4)

8A Look at the time for a second. (5)

9H Not ranting. (6)

11A Tom was a red head. (6)

12J Looks like a coot. (4)

13A Time spent in court. (3)

13F A Scottish sea monster. (5) 15E Prayer ’e says after going to bed. (4)

ANSWERS TO SCRABBLE CROSSWORD 730

ACROSS Quaver, Without, Fail, Polite, In-bound, Pigmy, Beeswax, Overdo, Haggle, Decays, Noise

DOWN Jumpsuit, Pair, Hindi, Berate, Moan, Truly, Stroke, Hidden, Aztec, Coin, Aid, Ferns

Devised and compiled by Derek Wine. SCRABBLE ® is a registered trademark of JW Spear & Sons Ltd, Maidenhead SL6 4UB, England, under licence from Mattel Europa BV, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc., ©Mattel 2006.