Sephardic U Crossword Puzzle of the Week

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Across
  1. 4. Last name of two great Sephardic poets
  2. 5. A Spanish Jewish neighborhood
  3. 6. Iranian city known for its mausoleum
  4. 7. The Jews of this country were named after what the did not eat
  5. 10. Israeli Moroccan poet, winner of the highest poetry award
  6. 12. A city of fierce Jewish warriors and bodyguards
  7. 14. The last Jewish king (5-6C)
  8. 16. A Moroccan Jewish neighborhood
  9. 18. Second sultan by this name who welcomed Spanish exiles
  10. 21. Astronomer whose tools helped discover the New World
  11. 23. First name of a poet born in Gaza
  12. 25. A kabbalist whose last name means essential
  13. 27. Eaten only by Sephardim eight days a year
  14. 28. Title of the head of the Babylonian academies
  15. 29. traditional Moroccan dish
  16. 31. Ibn Paqquda and Ibn Asher shared this first name
  17. 32. Arab name of Spanish lands
  18. 34. The first word of Aleppo’s Hebrew name
  19. 37. One of three mandatory subjects in Sephardic medieval schools
  20. 38. This prophet’s grave is in Iraq
  21. 40. Rabbi in Egypt, minister in Israel
  22. 41. A medieval center of mysticism and halacha
  23. 42. Cousins and chief rabbis of Jerusalem and Haifa
  24. 44. A Spanish city and Rosh Hashanah fruit
  25. 47. The man who set the table of halacha
  26. 48. Bosnian rabbi
Down
  1. 1. An ancient community identified with a hat
  2. 2. Acronym of the author of the travel book “Good Circle”
  3. 3. Medieval global merchants based in Iraq
  4. 8. Author of Halachic responsa “The City of Rome”
  5. 9. First name of the Great Eagle
  6. 11. An early Spanish community
  7. 13. Philosophers R. Yehudah and R. Moshe wrote their works in this language
  8. 15. On a Sephardic Seder plate instead of parsley
  9. 17. His son was a physician who wrote 14 volumes on halacha
  10. 19. Moroccan Spanish cosmopolis
  11. 20. A literary Israeli dynasty well before the Corona vaccine
  12. 22. Iraqi Indian dynasty
  13. 24. Author of Israeli song Yam HaShibolim
  14. 26. His son wrote Deror Yikra
  15. 28. Considered the first Rishon LeTziyon
  16. 30. Jerusalem of Greece
  17. 33. This prophet’s grave is in Kurdistan
  18. 35. Traditional Syrian food
  19. 36. Iranian Jews use this herb to symbolize whips on Pesah
  20. 39. The glorious era of Iberian Jews
  21. 43. This gaon was a grammarian, philosopher, and poet
  22. 45. Turkish name of one of the cities where R Yosef Karo studied
  23. 46. British Yemenite city