CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 From edges of arena, run over to catch country musician (Jewish-American 1900-1990) (12)

10 Old Lithuania’s ‘Vilna’ by today’s current name (7)

11 Exuberant Welsh-Jewish MP who often attended The Commons in flamboyant atttire (1917-2008) (3,4)

12 About to break into song on Germany’s capital city (9)

15 Middle Easterner - one mentioning the spirit of Turkey (5)

16 Complained and made no difference (6)

19 Israeli Jew whose origin was around the port of Aden (8)

22 Jewish liturgical song recited at friday sundown to welcome in shabbat (variant spelling - no ‘C’) (4,4)

24 About to get couple in fix (6)

26 Follow directions, take legal action (5) 28 A courageous military leader - (not French, Greek) (9)

32 Day Monica spent, wandering about (7) 33 In this North African country, is one surrounded by fish? (7)

34 Arab residents of The West Bank and Gaza (12)

DOWN

2 Abandoned Arab village southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem near Wadi Surar (The Valley of Pebbles’) (5)

3 “Religion is the ***** of the people...” (Karl Marx) (5)

4 Indian class for actors, say (5)

5 Eber’s son in whose time ‘The Earth was Divided’ (Gen. 10:25) (5)

6 Member of an old Palestinian tribe (Gen 10:16) (7)

7 Bush’s backing for part of thursday budget speech (5)

8 ‘Our Father, Our King’ prayer recited on High Holy Days (Hebrew) (5,8)

9 When it’s tempestuous, need mariner at sea (13)

13 It takes a very long time to make one change (3)

14 How work of most poets ends, like Keats and Yeats (7)

17 Has changed, so remains (3) 18 Pair play loud, but forget start (3)

20 Damage or impair, ignoring the odds (3)

21 George Gershwin’s elder brother (1896-1993) (3)

23 Spinning toy popular at Chanukkah (variant spelling) (7)

25 Clean up, as Englishman down under? (3)

27 Money more than before? Review the evidence (3,2)

28 Haircuts being messy, hit out and leave a deposit for the viewer (5)

29 The sixth Gadite who joined King David at Ziklag (1 Chron. 12:12) (5)

30 Lower interest rate - for example dropped from genuine error (5)

31 Grandma is held for a month in Israel (5)