CROSSWORD 955

ACROSS

1 From edges of arena, run over to catch country musician (5,7)

9 Rabbi *****, famous sage and leading contributor to the Mishnah (1st & 2nd cenury CE) (5)

10 Tin god first going up Alabama waterway (4,5)

11 Complain, whine or sigh (Yiddish) (7) 12 King David’s scribe (1 Chron. 18:16) (7)

13 Genius Albert, not a German mug! (5)

15 Belief in doing the conventional thing (9)

18 So long, see you later (Hebrew) (5,2,’2)

19 Deduce speaker’s wearing ermine, for example? (5)

21 Northern Amish set out hard legal precepts in first major work of rabbinic literature.(Hebrew) (7)

24 WWI Field marshal of note included in passage (7)

26 Original dweller of ‘The Promised Land’ (9)

27 A raffle raised, giving prize (5)

28 Halachic concept believing in the sanctity of life (Hebrew) (6,6)

DOWN

1 God came to this king in a dream of the night (Gen. 20:3) (9)

2 One of Kabbalah’s three elements of the human soul (Hebrew) (2’3)

3 Israeli charity seeking to help the impoverished (Hebrew) (4,5)

4 Signs from the women’s department (5) 5 ‘Come, my Friend’ - liturgical hymn welcoming Shabbat (Hebrew) (5,4)

6 Dressing up to this? Clementine’s shoes are the limit (5)

7 Type of pancakes made of potato (Yiddish) (6)

8 Disreputable son unwilling to work to earn euros (6) 14 Israeli politician to haunt any English settlement (9)

16 Continental summit meeting? (4-1-4)

17 German-Jewish composer of ‘La Vie Parisienne’ frequently, we hear, supported by another (9)

18 Relative of Noah who took two wives named Adah and Zillah (Gen. 4:19) (6)

20 Dairy built above hospital in Arab city (6)

22 Billboard I quoted from God’s holy mountain (5)

23 Call for reduced elevation (5)

25 Contract, as in shelter (5)