CROSSWORD 065

ACROSS

5 ***** Sokolow, Zionist leader and translator born in 1859 (5)

6 Raised platform in a synagogue held back in Oldham, I bet (5)

9 Indian musical instrument - One resounded in south India (7)

10 Edge beside this person’s ornaments atop Torah scroll covers (7)

12 Star-shaped figures formed by two intersecting equilateral triangles (9)

13 Nervous spy with companion gets to prepare mentally for a testing task (5)

15 Pass by entrance of bar to see a North African jackal (4)

17 Letter in the Hebrew alphabet whose symbol is shaped like an ox’s head (5)

18 **** Chomsky, activist and linguistics philosopher born in 1928 (4)

19 ***** Morgenstern, title role played by Valerie Harper in a US sitcom (5)

20 Computing resource with a list of instructions to be carried out in turn (5,4)

23 Place near renovated yard for a session attended by all at a conference (7)

24 Form of polite irony - It’s same when analysed (7)

25 ***** Goodman, US bandleader known as the ‘King of Swing’ (5)

26 Piece of glass for examining an object under a microscope left among team (5)

DOWN 1

Scholar overlooking depressed area and mountain fortress by the Dead Sea (6) 2 Nationality by birth of novelist Elias Canetti (9)

3 Milk spilt around middle of big rug made in the Middle East (5)

4 Arne ******** , Danish architect and furniture designer born in 1902 (8)

7 Holier place sorted for opéra bouffe by Jacques Offenbach that premiered in 1868 (2,9)

8 Engineer born in 1897 who developed the modern drip irrigation system (6,5)

11 A beam so ruined by unicellular organisms (7)

14 Novel by Franz Kafka, published published posthumously in 1926 (3,6)

16 Robert ******** , Justice Minister who abolished France’s death penalty in 1981 (8)

21 Dorothy ****** , librettist and lyricist born in 1904 (6)

22 Debut studio album by Amy Winehouse released in 2003 (5)