| YESHIVA | A traditional Jewish school devoted chiefly to the study of rabbinic literature and the Talmud |
| INTERPOL | An association of national police forces, with headquarters in Lyons, devoted chiefly to fighting international crime (8) |
| KNAIDLACH | Nervously Nick held a traditional Jewish soup (9) |
| MISHNAH | Northern Amish set out hard legal precepts in first major work of rabbinic literature.(Hebrew) (7) |
| YESHEVA | Traditional Jewish school |
| ALFRED | Swedish chemist after whom a series of prestigious prizes in economics, literature and the sciences is named (6,5) |
| JUDAISM | Religion based on the Old Testament and the Talmud (7) |
| RIMBAUD | French poet, 1854-1891, who influenced modern literature and the arts (7) |
| TALMUD | Central text of rabbinic Judaism, consisting of the Mishnah and Gemara (6) |
| INDOLOGICAL | What adjective applies to the study of the literature, history and culture of India? (11) |
| BETHDIN | Bid then troubled a Jewish court of law composed of three rabbinic judges (4,3) |
| GEMARA | The Mishnah is one part of The Talmud and this is the other (Hebrew) (6) |
| PARTICLEPHYSICS | Branch of science devoted to the study of the subatomic (8,7) |
| REFORM | _ _ _ _ _ _ Judaism, religious movement that has modified traditional Jewish beliefs to adapt to the modern world (6) |
| PHILOSOPHICAL | Devoted to the study of the meaning of life (13) |
| RASHI | Acronym for Jewish sage Shlomo Yitzhaki, commentator on The Talmud and The Tanakh (1040-1105) (5) |
| TAMILNADU | Version of the Talmud in a state of India (5,4) |
| ECONOMICS | English jokers welcoming switch to the study of the development of capital (9) |
| RHEOLOGIC | Relating to the study of matter deformation by the man entering the cool rig at sea (9) |
| KABBALA | Esoteric theosophy of rabbinic origin (variant spelling) (7) |
