Jerusalem Post Crossword Puzzle

Jerusalem Post Crossword Puzzle
by David Benkof
DavidBenkof@gmail.com
For the answers to this week’s puzzle visit jewishjournal.com/crossword
Across
1. Former SNL castmember Kattan
6. Jewish feminist Klepfisz
11. Jerry Bruckheimer specialty (abbr.)
14. Bird lodging
15. Tier at Teddy Kollek stadium
16. Ad ___ committee
17. Setting for Herb Gardner’s “I’m Not
Rappaport”
19. “All Things Considered” reporter
Shapiro
20. Orthodox rabbis Shafran and Weiss
21. “And ___ to every purpose...”:
Eccl. 3:1
23. Talmudic tractate about oaths
27. Microsoft CEO Steve
29. Heartier than the rest
30. Parsha about a rebellion against
Moses
31. Important island in Jewish history
32. Genesis name
33. Biblical verb ending
36. Barry Manilow hit “___ Now”
37. Katie of “Married...with Children”
38. Musician and Holocaust victim Nadel
39. Likely “Ishtar” review
40. Taba neighbor
41. “New York Jew” author Alfred
42. F ormer White House Chief of Staff
Joshua
44. Wedding ___ (chupah)
45. Landzmann and Levi-Strauss
47. Yucky mucks
48. Battalion of barbarians
49. Fiddler’s place
50. “Raiders of the Lost ___” (Spielberg
film)
51. “Master Builder” of mid-20th century
New York
58. Erev Shab.
59. “30 Rock” producer Michaels
60. “I could crush you like ___”
61. F ormer Republican National
Committee leader Mehlman
62. Olden days
63. Jotted down
Down
1. Midwest kashrut org.
2. “Green Acres” prop
3. Author Wolfson (“The Shabbat Seder”)
4. Follower of Zion?
5. Jeans magnate Levi
6. Modiin ___
7. MKs, essentially
8. German-Jewish sculptor Hesse
9. Grandfather of Saul
10. Proto-Zionist Judah
11. Sixth president of Israel (1983-1993)
12. “Blame It on the Bossa Nova” singer
Eydie
13. Comparatively unfriendly
18. Pirkei ___ (“Ethics of the Fathers”)
22. Comforting letters
23. Abraham, Moses, and David all
herded them
24. Sesame treat
25. “Diner” co-star
26. S inew of the thigh-___ (forbidden
item, as per Genesis)
27. Crazy Kazakh
28. Source of much Asian irrigation
30. Elena or Israel Meir
32. Actor Soupy
34. Ambush
35. “The Producers”’ dozen
37. JDate.com, e.g.
38. Texas ___ M University
40. Aged
41. Andy of “Taxi”
43. Symbol on Oreos packages
44. Blood flow stoppage
45. Bilingual Kashrut symbol
46. “Crime and Punishment” star Peter
47. Afflictions for Job
49. Civil libertarian Cassin
52. “Hollywood Squares” win
53. “I’m cold!”
54. Kiryat ___
55. Acknowledged that the Torah was
back in the ark
56. Opposite WSW
57. EST part: abbr.