SHABBAT SCRABBLE 059

Shabbat-friendly crossword. Writing is not required .

HOW TO PLAY: Use the letter tiles from the game of Scrabble to spell out the answers. Do not use the two blank tiles. Place the tiles on the Scrabble board according to the grid references given with the clues – rows are designated by number and columns by letter. If you successfully complete the puzzle, you will have used all 98 tiles.

Across

2C Praised old flame changed, we hear (7) 4C Fanatic to laze about (6)

5H Steep valley - Vera in trouble! (6)

7C A mule’s become a Hebrew prophet (6)

7K Eat away from little rodent (5) 9D Old-fashioned aqua tinted cocktail (10)

11M Old cloth newspaper? (3)

12A Flop, for all its lofty beginnings (4)

12F Hebrew prophet who precedes Judges? (6)

14B Gershwin’s day in London town? (5)

14J Prod acceptable in sports class (4)

Down

1H Violent squirt upset performer adept at vocal trickery (13)

2E Humiliation from a cellar (9)

2K Event incited Northern revolution (8)

3O Display Eastern jewellery, washing while standing up (9)

4C Fastens up in his pizzeria (4) 4M Scribe for a wind instrument? (8)

11B In Iowa, I find homeless child (4)

11J Politician in purchase isn’t smooth (5)

12F Delight of Jewish (or Yemeni) leaders (3)

Answers to last week Across:

1I Pun, 3E Zemirot, 4A Awake, 6E Theme song, 7A Blase, 8K Diane, 9A Water, 9G Lily, 10M Coo, 11I Oxide, 12D Cinder, 13K Ivy. Down: 1E Gazetteer, 1G Jumble sale, 1I Parquet floor, 1K Not, 3A Rainbow, 3M Fragrance, 4C Aghast, 7O Devout, 9D Epic, 11L Dive.

With thanks to Derek Wine. SCRABBLE ® is a registered trademark of JW Spear & Sons Ltd, Maidenhead SL6 4UB, England, under licence from Mattel Europa BV, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc., ©Mattel 2006.