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1 See if flight cooked up Friday Night starter? (7,4)

9 As I say, somehow crossing river in ancient kingdom (7)

10 Engrave again? (7)

11 “Ladies’ man” has a capital ring to it (5)

12 High points of M.P.’s diary revealed (8)

14 Maybe it pains, ask some from Lahore (10)

15 Midianite chief slain by the Israelites (Numb. 31:8) (4)

17 Old Bank of England, initially, as producer of notes (4)

19 French-Jewish composer - a Black Forest devil? (1837-1915) (10)

21 Ingenues cast without some sense (8)

23 Girl held up by Indian elephant (5) 25 Prayer-shawls (Hebrew) (7)

26 Someone who respects the needs and wishes of others (Yiddish) (7)

27 “Lo! No smoking” confused wise old mine proprietor (4,7)

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1 Good oral taste (Yiddish) (7)

2 Confused (Yiddish) (8)

3 Jacob’s wife in meadow next to hospital (4)

4 Those who catch what some might see as bait (5,5)

5 Tailless wading bird, unknown on a Balearic island (5)

6 Uriah, for one, struck line out of caption (7)

7 Permitted non-meat foods under Kashrut (5,8)

8 The Nazis’ 1938 ‘Night of Broken Glass’ (13)

13 Ancient, as a setting for previous inhabitants of ‘The Promised Land’ (10) 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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1C 1, 2, 4, 8. (8)

1G Indicate digitally. (5)

1I Musical variations. (6)

2K At the end Dorothy was small. (3) 2N Bird dives into fresh water. (5) 6L Sprinter eats beans. (6)

7A Himalayan cattle. (2)

7E Eton’s competition. (6)