SHABBAT SCRABBLE

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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 1G This dog won Olympic medals. (5) 1I Tire out in the back of the car. (7) 1L But pea is not a green colour. (5) 2C Don’t let it happen to poor Nell. (6) 4E A thousand drink cabbage. (4) 5M Spice or football deception. (6) 6A Fifty and one pound of water. (6) 7F Any gizmo is one. (6) 8K A circular charity. (6) 9C Separate success immediately. (6) 10I A hard company to work for. (4) 12N Go for a tramp in the States. (4) DOWN

2A Try and save this bowl. (4) 2G Sounds like picks the mint box. (3) 3I Ring the French with great excitement. (6)

4B It keeps a potato warm. (6) 5I The wrong way to rub an inner city. (5) 6A Even a palindrome. (5) 7E Greet a white heron. (5) 8J Major Kettle. (4) 9A Relax and turn back the clock. (6) 10F Hook used initially by the foreman. (4) 12K Little Richard wasn’t impecunious. (4) 13G A fruity English man. (5) 14C Court an owl. (3) 15M A tutor for the Godfather. (3) ANSWERS TO SCRABBLE CROSSWORD 564 ACROSS Jambed, Kilt, Quite, Income, Relax, Vizor, Youth, Vigil, Brews, Tiff, Palate, One, Wage Use DOWN Grimaldi, Vicar, Enzyme, Candy, Verb, Rapid, Tough, Death, Woof, Walrus, Nan, Res, Goose