CROSSWORD 969

ACROSS

1 Ashkenazi baked desert made with noodles (Yiddish) (7,5)

10 An idiot in Belgian city (7)

11 Benjamin ******* , composer attacked by insects, crossing river (7)

12 One of whose children returned out of captivity in Babylon (Ezra 2:53) (5)

13 Tanakh reading in English after reading the shabbat Torah portion (Hebrew) (8)

15 Major IDF airbase southeast of Haifa (5,5)

16 Sacred song for that guy, say (4) 18 Mythical ship moving slowly, heading off (4)

20 Nazi KL near Linz in Upper Austria (10)

22 City of large jewish presence in western Ukraine by its name prior 1944 (8)

24 This used for rough bedding, having lumps on retirement (5)

26 Joseph’s Egyptian wife (Gen. 41:45) (7)

27 How Haman is described in Esther 3:1 (7)

28 From edges of arena, run over to catch country musician (Jewish) (5,7)

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2 Choose a single mother, the best there is (7)

3 Ritual jewish slaughter (Hebrew) (8) 4 Beneath top of ear, mole and spot (4) 5 Students of jewish mysticism (10)

6 Almost sick in stomach from conscience? (5)

7 Guilty start repenting when reformed by synagogue ritual (7)

8 Jewish-American comic actor best remembered opposite Jack Lemmon in ‘The Odd Couple’ and others (19202000) (6,7) 9 Anglo-Jewish singer and songwriter, co-composer of the musical ‘Stop The World - I want To Get Off’ (1931-1999) (7,6)

14 Shalom & Amen rewritten in Ashenazim ‘native language’ (Yiddish) (10)

17 National Park observation point on one side of Mount Galboa (3,5)

19 Manager berated for hiding plant (7) 21 Djokovic, for instance, earns one billion after crashing out (7)

23 Delighted to walk thus, making broadcast (2,3)

25 Tel Aviv’s twin city (4)