SHABBAT SCRABBLE 560

SOLVEOUR Shabbat-friendly crossword. Writing is not required — just use your Scrabble board and tiles to spell out the answers to the cryptic clues.

HOWTOPLAY: 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 1F Brace yourselves. (3) 2H Was the genie a first born. (5) 2M James and I were on a beach. (5) 3A A heavenly milky bar. (6) 3E Dog sounds like boat. (6) 3J Keep Sid out of the atelier. (6) 8C Did Bearnaise cause this. (5) 8H Voltaire wrote about power. (4) 8M Renew it to get more current. (5) 10K Do they go through the guns. (6) 12B Facetiously cross the Atlantic. (4) 12E Hello and goodbye to Rome. (4) 12I The skin is partly brindled. (4) DOWN 2F Soundly tempt me to a liquid diet. (4) 3A Look at Derek in the belvedere. (6) 3J Cabbage may be served here. (5) 5C Have a go in this small car. (4) 5H It’s common sense for us in Paris. (4) 6L Seen on the border of Rimini. (3) 7D Would you drink from this in gaol. (3) 8A I consented some time yesterday. (3) 8H Band leader. (6) 10A Did Donald play a better card. (5) 10G Four and fifty make bread. (5) 12B Cheap fruit. (5) 12I Allude palindromically. (5) 15K Told it’s a trigonometry sign. (4) ANSWERS TO SCRABBLE CROSSWORD NO: 559

ACROSS: 1D Pixel, 2F Zed, 2I Wombat, 2L Dunce, 2N Wagon, 4B Duke, 6K Toff, 7D Vice,

9B Ivory, 9I Rain, 9M Grain, 10F Gripe, 12D Door, 13N Tat DOWN: 2B Blitz, 2I Window, 4F Dummy, 5A Quell, 5L Clot, 6H Haste, 7A Jeeves, 9B Inch, 9I

Refuge, 12B Radii, 13F Pea, 13J Saint, 15J Roast Devised and compiled by 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.