Into CROSSWORD 867 future

ACROSS

1 Old writer in small bed in Kent, say (6)

4 Jewish snacks - they take the biscuit for getting knotted (8)

9 Explosive device crudely taped over back of door (6)

10 Abandoned Syrian town on the Golan Heights border (8)

12 Flirtation non-starter, given marriage (8)

13 Tiring person, sort peace-keepers rebuffed (Yiddish) (6)

15 Jewish-American star of ‘The Fugitive’ TV series (1931-1980) (5,7)

18 The Holy Ark where The Torah scrolls are kept (Hebrew) (4,2-6)

21 Are about to ring us, to wake us up (6)

22 We’re told to take possession of a butt for vintage Israeli port (8)

24 Ritual of ‘casting off sins into flowing water’ at Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew) (8)

25 Doing the work of a pupil? (6)

26 Famous children, not one of them acknowledged (8)

27 Jewish synagogue singer (6)

DOWN

1 Oriental or North African Jew praised for working outside hospital (8)

2 Jewish-Italian Montalcini family Nobel laureate awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Medicine (19092012) (4,4)

3 Anglo-Jewish comic actor, best remembered as a member of the ‘Carry On’ movie team (19341993) (7,8) 5 Debauchee has nothing to be sorry about (4)

6 King Solomon’s dusky girlfriend (3,5,2,5)

7 Carry On Nurse, seen behind former partner (6) 8 Electrician gives off fiery particles (6)

11 Like poorly-fed bird - small crop, newly gutted (7)

14 A Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty (1 Chron 12:4) (7)

16 Jewish scholar’s undergarment taken in robbery (8)

17 Pregnant (Yiddish) (8)

19 Chaff from Barnet (6)

20 Al ****** , Jewish-American star of ‘The Jazz Singer’ - the first talking movie (1886-1950) (6) 23 English name for the Israeli city of Akko (4)