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maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 13 FEBRUARY 2019 23 SPORTS FORMULA 1 Answers to the MaltaToday crossword will be published next Wednesday Weather Partly to rather cloudy Visibility Good Wind North force 5 to 6 becoming North Northeast Sea Rough Swell Low Northeast becoming moderate TODAY TOMORROW Weather Crossword Across 9. Cut off from communion (13) 10. Blend (3) 11. Not solid or liquid (7) 12. Traded (4) 13. Worthless person (4) 15. Ventilated (5) 17. Crossbred dog (7) 19. Set apart (5) 21. Label (3) 23. Motion picture (5) 24. Ardent (7) 25. Decaffeinated (5) 27. Small harp-like musical instrument (4) 28. Musical instrument (4) 30. Gossip (4-3) 32. Devoted follower (3) 33. Ulcer located in the duodenum (8,5) Down 1. Capital of Israel (9) 2. Frown (5) 3. Smoke combined with fog (4) 4. Outwit (8) 5. Vitality (6) 6. Mouth bones (4) 7. Punctuation mark (9) 8. Principle of conduct (5) 14. Cut into small pieces (5) 16. Indoor game (5) 18. Ministers (9) 20. Consequently (9) 22. Wrap with decorative paper (4,4) 26. Black Sea peninsular (6) 27. Left-handed (5) 29. Cluster (5) 30. Harvest (4) 31. Dejected (4) PARTLY CLOUDY UV: 4 SUNNY UV: 4 11 0 / 6 0 13 0 / 9 0 RENAULT set themselves the target of closing the gap with the top three teams as they unveiled their 2019 car at their Oxfordshire factory. The French company finished fourth last season, after coming ninth in the first year of their return in 2016 and sixth in 2017. Team boss Cyril Abiteboul said: "We want to fight for more. We know it will take time. "This year is consolidation. We want to reduce the gap to the frontrunners." Former Red Bull driver Daniel Ric- ciardo joins Nico Hulkenberg for 2019. Ricciardo, who won two races for Red Bull in 2018, said: "It was a big de- cision for me and it certainly shook up a little bit of F1 and had quite a ripple effect on the grid. My intention wasn't to do that. I was looking out for myself and I felt this was the right place for me for the next chapter of my career. "The ambition is there - from ninth to sixth to fourth says it in itself - but there is no sense of complacency; there is big excitement and that mo- tivates me." Abiteboul added: "We have the driv- ers. Then we want to target engine excellence, while we give a bit of time to (the factory at) Enstone to deliver a race-winning chassis." Renault said there had been substan- tial progress on the engine, a weak- ness in recent years. Engine boss Remi Taffin said it had been the "best winter for the last five years", since the introduction of turbo hybrid engines in 2014. Renault aim to close gap with top three Renault finished on 122 points in 2018, behind champions Mercedes (655), Ferrari (571) and Red Bull (419)