SHABBAT SCRABBLE

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

1B Part appearance of a hunchback. (5) 1D Wear out in the back of the car. (7)

1N Strip of gold. (6)

2G Chinese vessel and French cream cheese. (6)

2J Green and vert. (7)

7B A colourful covenant. (7)

9E Mouldy like unfermented wine. (5) 9G Light New York every evening . (7) 10J Holmes found it on the Vodka bottle. (5)

10M On top of a hundred sheets of paper. (5)

13OPoem composed of some episodes. (3)

DOWN

2J Watch over Virgil without a clear end. (5)

4B It makes a racket. (9)

5J Order some architecture. (5)

6D A fast acting drug. (5)

7A A partly written legal document. (4)

8J Thank Shakespeare for the top. (6) 9A Substance known alphabetically. (7) 10J Told this was best spot to catch fish. (5)

11E A sign or a foreigner . (6)

14M He wasn’t a rocker. (3)

15DAn interfering proboscis. (4)

ANSWERS TO SCRABBLE CROSSWORD 771

ACROSS 1G Paunch, 1J Anvil, 2C Orkney, 4E Raj, 5A Palaver, 7J Audit, 7M Egg, 8H Tribe, 9C Tumbler, 9E Aloof, 10N Idioms, 11K Wig

DOWN

1G Panache, 2A Oxon, 3J Voyeur, 5A Penzance, 7I Waited, 9E Astride, 10A Equal, 11J Tweed, 13C Lift, 13I Fog, 15B Dross