CROSSWORD 963
ACROSS
7 Large number - “Twist and Shout” (8) 9 After small operation, pain, it’s said, is far from clear (6)
10 Arkwright who didn’t take single boarders (Gen. 6:10) (4)
11 London’s oldest Sephardi synagogue (5,5)
12 White robe worn on High Holy Days, also a burial shroud (Hebrew) (6)
14 Jewish author of ‘Catcher in The Rye’ is more sensible, holding nothing back (8) 15 A prophet from Israel, is Haggai (1 Kings 19:20) (6)
16 Semi-precious stones in a stage production (6)
19 Almost fanatic, I’d arranged Palestinian uprising (8)
21 Leader of the British Union of Fascists in the 1930’s (6)
23 Simon Wiesenthal and others like him (4,6)
24 One of the sons of Gad (Num. 26:16) (4) 25 Small kosher sausage - girl will be back after six (6)
26 A dirty business, a real mess (Yiddish) (8)
DOWN
1 Town in Northern Israel oddly shambolic when cab leaves (6)
2 The second river out of Eden flowed through this land (Gen. 2:13) (4)
3 The discipline of Jewish mysticism (Hebrew) (8)
4 A tiny bit of code getting left behind (6)
5 Ancient as a setting for original dwellers of The Promised Land (Gen. 12:6) (10)
6 Archaic name for small shields held in the fist (8)
8 Honey (Hebrew) (6)
13 Female politician who served as Israeli Foreign Minister from 2006 to 2009 (b.1958) (5,5)
15 Moshav near Petah Tikva - the first moshav established in Ottoman Palestine in 1908 (3,5)
17 Tailless school cat turned up in wicked city (Gen. 13:10) (8)
18 Endless cable - it got tangled in this sea (6)
20 ‘Chained wife’ unable to be halachically divorced (Hebrew) (6)
22 Kibbutz and holiday resort on the eastern shore of The Sea of Galillee (3,3) 24 Biblical measure of grain that’s capital, first to last (Hebrew) (4)