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)