CROSSWORD 993

ACROSS

8 Benaiah’s father (2 Sam. 8:18) (8) 9 Full of joy, but tardy, having missed start (6)

10 Headed east to order - ‘No fishing here’! (3,4,3)

11 One’s bound to show reserve (4)

12 Jediael’s father (1 Chron. 11:45) (6) 14 Israeli agricultural settlements (Hebrew) (8)

15 Ashkenazi wedding MC (Yiddish) (7)

17 Members of the Jewish priestly class in time cutting taxes (7)

20 Talmudic method of interchange between letters and numbers (Greek) (8)

22 Book is first class, a humdinger from the very start (6)

24 Ducks out of greeting, being in a state (4)

25 Ancient, as a setting for original dwellers in The Promised Land (10)

27 Saudi city, one named in translation (6)

28 Jewish ‘won-tons’ traditionally put in the chicken soup (Yiddish) (8)

DOWN

1 A son of Ephraim (1 Chron. 7:25) (6)

2 Good, mature, precious stuff (4)

3 Israeli coastal town near the Lebanese border (8)

4 Fruit, a necessity over in South Africa (7)

5 Otherwise sacred feature of the Lebanon (6)

6 Leading Jewish sage, a tanna, of the latter part of the first century CE (c.50135 CE) (5,5)

7 EEC doing badly? It’s wholesale murder! (8)

13 Academic talk on one final film that shows the in-laws (Yiddish) (10) 16 Letters forming the language of Hebrew (5,3)

18 Times are turbulent in Arab states (8) 19 This incident of 1913 was the first violent encounter between Jewish settlers and the local Arabs (7)

21 Maltijhan’s father about to enter dependency unit (Neh. 3:14) (6) 23 Bureau providing data in current year (6)

26 Doing nothing and indulged, oddly (4)