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maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 19 AUGUST 2020 Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Fine during the day and partly cloudy overnight Visibility Good Wind North to Northwest force 3 or 4 TODAY TOMORROW Crossword Weather ACROSS 1) "For Whom the Bell_" 6) Author Roald 10) Common delivery 14) Censor 15) Cookie brand 16) Small bouquet 17) Novelty message 20) It can be hot or sweet 21) Far from obese 22) Pub fixture 23) _ Strauss jeans 25) Tolerate 27) It's measured in degrees 30) Art_ 32) Absorbed, as a loss 33) Aerial maneuver 35) Cape Canaveral cancellation 37) Follow as a result 41) Salad bar selection 44) Lone Star State 45) Unload, as stock 46) Kind of sax 47) The "I" ofTGIF 49) Astronomer's sighting 51) Part of UCLA 52) Disparaging nickname 56) Domino spots 58) _ Diego, Calif. 59) Filly's mother 61) Bathing suit brand 65) Gene Kelly classic 68) On the ocean 69) Transfer ownership 70) See eye to eye 71) House's grounds 72) While beginning? 73) Gives for a while DOWN 1) Cook's meas. 2) Musical miscellany 3) Ash Wednesday follower 4) By-the-book 5) Was malicious toward 6) Odie, for one 7) They might be liberal 8) Cobbler's stock 9) Nabokov character 10) Automobile sticker fig. 11) Heart exit 12) Bartender on TV's Pacific Princess 13) _ node 18) Church prayers 19) Acts excessively 24) Desktop pictures 26) Bright group 27) Came back down 28) From memory (with "by") 29) Cajole 31) Rhymester Nash 34) Braid of hair 36) Lowest ship deck 38) Horizontal window piece 39) "Do_ others as ... " 40) Centers of pride 42) Panama and others 43) "The Lord of the Rings" lingo 48) Medium gathering 50) Attraction 52) English exam finale, often 53) Monetary unit of India 54) Baltimore's_ Harbor 55) Judge or juror 57) Worsted suit cloth 60) Finishes 62) Make, as money 63) Went out, as a fire 64) Aces, sometimes 66) "Crikey!" 67) Holiday in Hanoi HOT & SUNNY UV: 11 HOT & SUNNY UV: 11 34 0 / 25 0 33 0 / 23 0 FEELS LIKE 37 0 FEELS LIKE 36 0 � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS----------- I) Salome's royal audience 6) Capture 11) No longer is 14) Catlike 15) Bermuda or Vidalia 16) Halloween mo. 1 7) Rustic hobby 19) Miner's find 20) Bank contents 21) More benevolent 23) Northbound, on most maps 26) Like Columbus, by birth 27) Icelandic coins 28) Up-to-date 29) Breath contents 30) Purple Heart, e.g. 32) Cordage fiber 35) Aria, e.g. 37) Alarm clock, at times WO IS ME 1H 2E 3R 40 sD 1 A G I L E w O OD C 1 A ON 2tJ o 39) Cathedral recess 40) Create, as a scholarship 42) Chart anew 44) Mozart's "L' _ del Cairo" 45) Tremble with cold or ar 47) "Wide to the right!" 49) Fast driver 51) Dracula and Basie 52) Police line 53) Key material 55) Rhyming boxing champ 56) Places of marvels, in ntasies 61) Deception 62) Banana oil, e.g. 63) Battery part 64)_ and don'ts 65) Back-to-health program, briefly 66) Fritter away B R E E s N s � p s T E R E E DOWN I) "Hee_" 2) "I" problem 3) Copacabana site 4) "The_ and the Sea" 5) Good rm 6) Achy 7) Deadly sin 8) Three, on sundials 9) Spaced out 10) They might backfire 11) It may help stir the batter 12) Farm measures 13) About 1 .3 cubic yards 18) President Jackson 22) Bucket wheel used r irrigation 23) Authoritative proclamation 24) Petrel bird with saw-toothed bills 25) Baseball championship 26) Artificial human of Jewish lklore 28) Creator 3 l) Risk taker 33) English race place 34) Investigation aids 36) _ and aahed 38) Ill will 41) Surviving spouse 43) Relief measure of Elizabethan times 46) Veinlike 48) Neighbor of Brazil 49) Bring to a near-boil 50) Salk's conquest 53) "I had no_!" 54) Sentence part 57) Advanced degree? 58) Discouraging words 59) Banned bug-killer 60) "Comprende?" June 12th, 2020 � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS----------- I) "For Whom the Bell_" 6) Author Roald 10) Common delivery 14) Censor 15) Cookie brand 16) Small bouquet 17) Novelty message 20) It can be hot or sweet 21) Far from obese 22) Pub fixture 23)_ Strauss jeans 25) Tolerate 27) It's measured in degrees 30) t_ 32) Absorbed, as a loss 33) Aerial maneuver 35) Cape Canaveral cancellation 37) Follow as a result 4 I) Salad bar selection HUM ALONG 14 17 20 2 3 4 5 44) Lone Star State 45) Unload, as stock 46) Kind of sax 47) The "I" ofTGIF 49) Astronomer's sighting 51) Part of UCLA 52) Disparaging nickname 56) Domino spots 58)_ Diego, Calif. 59) Filly's mother 61) Bathing suit brand 65) Gene Kelly classic 68) On the ocean 69) Transfer ownership 70) See eye to eye 71) House's grounds 72) While beginning? 73) Gives r a while 62 63 DOWN I) Cook's meas. 2) Musical miscellany 3) Ash Wednesday follower 4) By-the-book 5) Was malicious toward 6) Odie, r one 7) They might be liberal 8) Cobbler's stock 9) Nabokov character 10) Automobile sticker fig. 11) Heart exit 12) Bartender on TV's Pacific Princess 13)_ node 18) Church prayers 19) Acts excessively 24) Desktop pictures 26) Bright group 27) Came back down 28) From memory (with "by") 29) Cajole 31) Rhymester Nash 34) Braid of hair 36) Lowest ship deck 38) Horizontal window piece 39) "Do_ others as ... " 40) Centers of pride 42) Panama and others 43) "The Lord of the Rings" lingo 48) Medium gathering 50) Attraction 52) English exam finale, o en 53) Monetar y unit of India 54) Baltimore's_ Harbor 55) Judge or juror 57) Worsted suit cloth 60) Finishes 62) Make, as money 63) Went out, as a fire 64) Aces, sometimes 66) "Crikey!" 67) Holiday in Hanoi June 9th, 2020 MATTHEW VELLA THE Maltese government is planning to challenge the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling which found Malta guilty of opening finch trapping seasons in breach of the EU Birds Directive, to allow finch trapping with the excuse that it will be done for scientific research purposes. The decision has been slammed by BirdLife Malta. "It is, to say the least, absurd and irresponsible for the Gov- ernment to take this route. In the past it has weakened and amended laws purely to create a smokescreen for the illegal killing of birds. Now it wants to create a smokescreen for tens of thousands of songbirds to be trapped by creative- ly classifying it as a scientific study," BirdLife Malta CEO Mark Sultana said. "In the past 10 years we have seen various changes in laws to appease the hunting and trapping lobby: from the removal of curfews during raptor mi- gration to allowing hunting at Majjistral Park, and from opening rabbit hunt- ing seasons without any restrictions to weakening taxidermy laws that simply allowed further abuse of the Conserva- tion of Wild Birds Regulations. "This is a record that only a hunt- er minister could be proud of while it shames the rest of the country! BirdLife Malta has always stated that it is a mas- sive mistake to hand over the conserva- tion of wild birds to a hunter that has now become the Minister for Gozo. This is not only disrespectful to the Minister for Environment but also without any legal strength, and hence the reason why BirdLife Malta is chal- lenging this decision in the law courts," Sultana said. Sultana said that with enforcement leaving a lot to be desired or even non-existent at times, this decision will make room for rampant abuse of the system as was the case when laws pure- ly to appease a lobby that gives nothing to the country but takes a lot from the rest of its citizens. "Birds are there to be enjoyed by all and not by a privileged group that struggles to understand the beauty of wildlife. BirdLife Malta will be asking a lot of questions during next week's ORNIS Committee meeting and will do all within its power to stop this absurdity." Challenge of ECJ ruling on finch trapping 'absurd' says BirdLife Using the excuse of scientific research to create a smokescreen for more birds to be trapped is unacceptable

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