CROSSWORD 967

ACROSS

1 AND 17 DOWN ‘Don’t hit me with a teapot’ - Stop annoying me! (Yiddish) (3,3,5,4,8)

9 Jewish bread rolls the Spanish put in sacks (Yiddish) (6)

10 One of King David’s sons (2 Sam. 5:16) (6)

12 Wedding (Yiddish) (8)

13 Endless courage needed for moving large cat (6)

14 The time (Yiddish) (5)

16 Man during Sabbath fancied Uriah’s wife (2 Sam. 11:3) (9) 18 Esther’s foster-father (Est. 2:7 - variant spelling) (9)

19 Containing nothing yet MP is worried (5)

21 Talmud component comprising rabbinical analysis and comment (Hebrew) (6)

22 A pound of sultanas? (8)

25 Where Elisha found a ‘great woman’ (2 Kings 4:8) (6)

26 Dope visibly embarrassed about sex (6)

27 Body of water held by the Al-Wehda Dam on the borders of Syria and Jordan (6,9)

DOWN

2 ‘May He/She Rest in Peace’ (strictly Yiddish not Hebrew) (4,2-6)

3 Comes face to face with me, set for disturbance (5)

4 Hurries and ushers out (6)

5 A girl some admire, needless to say (5) 6 Israeli jurist, author of ‘The Trial and Death of Jesus’ (1911-2002) (4,4)

7 Small repasts held on Shabbat mornings after the prayer service (Hebrew) (9)

8 Joshua’s father - member of an order? (Num. 11:28) (3) 11 Smyrna-born rabbi who claimed himself divine and was known as ‘The False Messiah’ (1626-1676) (8,4)

15 Jerusalem’s Holocaust Memorial Centre (3,6)

17 See 1 Across (8)

20 Czech capital gives couple the shivers (6)

22 A fool, a real jerk! (Yiddish) (5)

23 Thief, villain (Hebrew/Yiddish) (5) 24 Non-jew, Christian (Hebrew/Yiddish) (3)