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

1C Decorations for hundreds of cakes. (9)

1N An understanding aunt. (5) 2F Cooked fish in drum. (6) 2K Paw followed by kids. (6) 5I Tennis can be played on it. (5)

7M Make onward progress. (7) 9G Go to conquer. (6)

9J Hit it on the head. (4)

11B Condition of the poem. (2) 11D Measure half an inch. (5)

DOWN 2B 2K

Drunk in the highlands. (6)

Weed out the undesirables. (5)

4A Insignificant pipsqueak. (6) 5F Anything woven. (7)

7E A dangerous seductress. (7) 7M Seen at the end of French film. (3)

9F A daring escapade. (9)

11B A change for the better. (7) 11M Last agenda item. (3)

12I Tidy up 5I. (5)

13M Man’s best friend. (3) 14D Arrived with nothing for this part. (5)

15A Nearly here. (4)

ANSWERS TO SCRABBLE CROSSWORD 796

ACROSS Bronze, Kaput, Floor, Nasty, Level, Yiddish, Mightier, Punnet, Groove, Warmed, Swot DOWN Brick, Annual, Coax, Question, Jelly, Gym, Waived, Figurine, Real, Hawse, Dodo, Beat

Devised and compiled by Derek Wine.

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