Sephardic U Crossword Puzzle of the Week

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