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1 Being seen on a friday night, Chabad leader tackled sin in another way (11)

9 Done with farm butter, I produce salt beef (8)

10 Male Jewish head-coverings (Hebrew) (6)

11 Being a witness, give information about European drug (6)

12 Tevye’s shtetl (Fiddler) (8)

13 All dressed up to the nines (Yiddish) (9)

15 Boat with half the crew in the stern (5)

17 One of Ishmael’s sons (Gen. 25:15) (5) 18 Near Dutch wreck that’s not on the map (9)

21 After raising hat, single man’s industrious (8)

22 Speedy performer flies closer, perhaps (6)

24 “Behold, David is in the wilderness of **- **** ” (1 Sam 24:1) (2-4)

25 The ‘Everlasting Light’ which hangs in front of the synagogue’s ark (Hebrew) (3,5)

26 Famous Jewish-Russian-American Science Fiction writer and Professor of Biochemistry (19230-1992) (5,6)

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2 A son of Jarha (1 Chron. 2:35) (5)

3 Chilling features of Chequers, say? (8) 4 Gulf state makes me upset, angry (7) 5 The long-held first blast on the shofar (Hebrew) (6)

6 Nehemiah’s saucer? (Neh. 1:11) (9)

7 Book of mournful poems placed between Ecclesiastes and Esther in The Ketuvim (13)

8 Bereshit (English full name) (4,2,7) 14 He praises reforms made by old Jewish sect (9)

16 A dirty business, a mess (Yiddish) (8) 19 Israeli coastal resort city some 30 km north of Tel Aviv... (7)

20 ...and city somewhat famed in Arabia (6)

23 Sanctimonious with an old musical instrument (5) 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.

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1M I recorded a dove on my mobile (5) 2E The traveller met with a hitch. (5) 3B She’s a hard nut to crack. (5)

3J The bawler can also trill. (6)

4G Prepare the chosen. (5)

7D Sounds like a nice apartment. (5) 7M Rely on hearing it’s not the shallow area. (6)