7/2/97

Israeli Cross Words

Just about the only thing not Jewish about this puzzle is that you can't fill in the answers right to left.

ACROSS

  1 Tel Aviv's region

  4 ___-Israel (Zionist)

  7 ___-v'chalila

 11 Outer pair for four-eyes (slang)

 16 issue a statement together

 18 Depend on

 20 ג€œ_____ Gun, Will Travelג€

 21 Give amazingly large sums to Knesset parties based on how many voters they had

 22 Katznelson biographer Shapira

 23 Unemployed

 24 Actress Porat

 25 Oy ___ lecha! (mild Israeli threat)

 26 First word of "NATBAG"

 27 Nefarious UN slur

 30 What Yom Kippur is the day of, besides bicycle riding

 32 Ethiopian-Jewish leader

 33 The best policy (unless you're a politician)

 34 An alternative to 11 across

 35 Alternative monicker for 30 across

 36 Le ___, French racist politician

 37 Defeats

 38 A case for storing cigars (yeah, I now, this is a silly word. But it fit.)

 41 Sportscaster Yaniv

 42 Disparaging term for a Bnei Brak denizen

 45 Neveh ___, near the Israel Museum

 48 Your favorite newspaper

 53 "It's the first time in 2,000 ___..."

 54 Shamir's famous three obstacles

 56 Last year's Subaru

 57 Yiddish quidnunc

 58 Fell sick again

 60 Wading bird

 61 Deir ___ (alt. spelling), a former village where Givat Shaul is now located

 63 ___ Dame, a small hospital bordering on Jerusalem's former No-Man's Land

 64 "___ and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" 

 65 Stops at an army checkpoint

 66 Burger Ranch sauces

 69 Haifa industrial by-product

 70 Source for biblical verse favored by the extreme right, "Ye will revolt more and more."

 74 Popular Middle Eastern liquors

 75 The deer is its emblem

 76 A tourist to the Faroe Islands would have his shtreimel blown off by these whirlwinds

 77 Favorite swig of Israeli kids

 78 Synagogue utterance just before winter

 82 What a Yamit resident became

 84 Byline on Alex's week off (bit of an in-joke, this one)

 85 Lady of Shalom Hanoch song

 86 Bore again

 88 "___ we trust" (a slogan that should have been on our coins when Ya'acobi was finance minister)

 90 Int'l sports association that would feel at home in Caesarea

 92 High-flying org.

 93 Birthright salesman

 97 From the French words for "warm" and "slow", this dish is the only way to get a Jew to eat stuffed intestines

100 Character from the movie Exodus

101 Where to go to yell "Shabbes! Shabbes!" and hurl rocks at passing cars

103 The two most distant towns

106 Funds from a world body promised to the Palestinians

107 What Yigal Amir wore in court

108 Both Orr and Post staffer Lewis

109 Mideastern hemp smoked to produce euphoria

110 Chutzpah

111 Religious kibbutz near 88D

112 Hamashbir ploy to move last season's stock

113 Ra'anana association for people still clinging to their mother tongue (abbr.)

114 Grapevine gatherer Cashman

115 Apply humous

116 Labor Party ballot letters (transliterated)

117 Jetliner you'll never see fly the Tel Aviv-Eilat route (abbr.)

118 We've had lots of immigrants from this place recently (abbr.)

DOWN

  1 Put a little something into the pushke

  2 Hole-y coin of yore

  3 Minister who was once in jail

  4 What Agnon and Arafat were in common

  5 Had chicken again

  6 Immigrants Ruth, Rena and Rita (Hebrew)

  7 The ___ People

  8 Injures

  9 Yehuda ___, popular proprietor of Vered Hagalil, the only dude ranch in the world with a mezuza on it (hint: he Hebraicized his name from Stone)

 10 She might sell one by Netanya or Eilat

 11 Sage

 12 Locations

 13 The King of Rock 'n' Roll, olove hasholom

 14 Cast (Scottish form) (This is definitely the worst word in the entire puzzle, but it was either this or give up in frustration and fill this page with something else instead)

 15 Thwart (variant spelling) (Look, if I knew it was going to be this hard to fill in all the little squares to make perfectly-spelled words going across and down, I never would have started, so please bear with me)

 16 Med-Dead dud

 17 US university

 19 What you change your shekels into when you visit Kobe

 28 Nickname of US president during the Sinai War

 29 She got laid with Sammy

 31 ___ loshen

 36 ___-State (Palestine)

 37 Leaf of Maccabi Tel Aviv

 39 Disengage from marriage (Aw, c'mon Orbaum, that's not a real word!)

 40 Monogram of gridiron, film and courtroom fame

 41 Carbohydrates (suffix)

 42 Finished

 43 River near Hamburg

 44 British gun (this hint is a giveaway, but it's a great bit of trivia: the word was created from the names "Sheppard," a British army officer; "Turpin," a British civil servant; and "England," an island near Europe)

 45 This country is willing to take back the Golan for nothing in return and expects us to apologize for capturing it as a way of preventing them from using our citizens as target practise (abbr.)

 46 ___ Haw

 47 East Indian shrub, popular among Scrabble players with too many vowels

 49 Measles (if it helps, the Hebrew word for it is ademet)

 50 Employing

 51 Like the Zohar

 52 What we all turn into shortly after Purim

 55 Poem

 59 Automotive lubricant brand name

 60 Luckless Turkish city? (as in "oy vey ___")

 61 Stubbly staresman

 62 Abu ___, Palestinian leader

 65 Nu, what are you waiting for?

 66 Headcoverings, the sort you wear when you don't want your kippa to be seen

 67 Village south of Um el-Fahm

 68 ___ v'Reah (Israeli brand of spices)

 69 She got things started between the Jews and Arabs when she kicked Ishmael out

 71 Chinese name (well, how many can there be?)

 72 Freezer cube

 73 Small bay or creek

 75 That green stuff on last month's challa

 76 How many gods we have

 79 Kingdoms (this answer proves, if by now you still need proof, that I have no future as a professional cruciverbalist)

 80 Not a facial feature depicted by antisemitic cartoonists

 81 UKג€™s PLO, perhaps

 83 Hankering Henry

 87 Nearly extinct Bezek users

 88 Farmstead founded in 1899 near Golani Junction

 89 _____ Sereni

 90 What you do to your VCR when you have to go to a wedding but you don't want to miss ג€œPopolitikaג€

 91 Davkanik (British slang)

 94 Entangles

 95 If they made a film about Hayarkon Park, they could call it "___ Runs Through It"

 96 Tnuva supplier

 97 Installs a separator between floors

 98 Tyre king who helped build Solomonג€™s Temple

 99 ______ - hashalom

100 How far some people would walk for a Camel

101 What rabbis do for a living

102 Breathing apparatus you might find in a me'urav

104 A measure of schnappes, perhaps

105 Instrument played while tiptoeing through the tulips

Note to readers: This puzzle took several thousand hours to create. Please donג€™t write letters to the editor saying you liked it. Heג€™ll insist I do it again. ג€“ S.O.

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