CROSSWORD 995

ACROSS

1 Marriage-broker (Yiddish) (8)

5 Keep fresh, cooking meal to entertain doctor (6)

9 Dry, needing a beer badly? Then use this loaf (3,5)

10 Doctor Louis ****** , leading theologian and rabbi of The New London Synagogue (1920-2006) (6) 11 Cleopatra, for example - painty variety! (8)

12 Architectural ornament one put in last (6)

14 Holding awe-struck JewishAmerican movie actress (6,4)

18 Jews of east European background (Hebrew) (10)

22 Canopy over the Jewish wedding ceremony (Hebrew - variant spelling) (6)

23 Poor Miss Haversham’s no saver, hence the jumble (Yiddish) (8)

24 Bold as brass? (6)

25 Moshav on the Sharon Plain between Ganei Tikva and Petah Tikva (3,5)

26 Cush begot Nmrod who was a mighty ****** (Gen. 10:9) (6)

27 David Ben Gurion’s ‘home’ kibbutz and site of his tomb (3,5)

DOWN

1 County coach? (6)

2 It’s agreeable to the captain, this Madagascan lemur (3-3)

3 Christian cleric, following dog, scoffed (6)

4 Second prayer recited during maariv (‘Eternal Love’) (Hebrew) (6,4)

6 Extinct bird pecks Ruth’s tribespeople (Num. 22:4) (8) 7 King of Israel, rival to Solomon (1 Kings 1:7) (8)

8 Nazi definition of one of mixed Jewish and Aryan extraction (German - no letter ‘c’) (8)

13 Jewish leader of the UK Labour Party from 2010 to 2015 (2,8) 15 One of the sons of Zerubbabel (1 Chron. 3:20) (8)

16 Tea, no sugar or milk for this military padre (8)

17 Levantine Middle Easterner seen – able, flexible (8)

19 Her baby is outside, it’s a little angel (Hebrew) (6)

20 The River Jordan’s largest tributary (6)

21 Amraphel’s kingdom (Gen. 14:1) (6)