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maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 30 SEPTEMBER 2020 ACROSS 1) Prefix with "physical" 5) Word in upscale restaurant names 9) They have sticking points 14) Type of man or horse 15) Salerno money no more 16) Second-largest Great Lake 17) Newspaper bigwigs 20) When you might get there, for short 21) Start again from scratch 22) Wading bird with an upcurved bill 23) Spray alternatives 25) Favorable votes 26) Escape clause 27) Debate sides 28) Sound of satisfaction 31) Capitol Hill prizes 34) Feudal farmer 35) _ Major (Great Bear) 36) Amazing carpenter 39) Chamber effect 40) Type of chair 41) Speaks hoarsely 42) Motive, essentially 43) Wine's partner? 44) Non-sharer 45) Making its way there 46) Travel allowance 50) Pass, as time 53) One not yet a marquis 54) Tum down 55) One with a bipolar disorder 58) Outright 59) Sinister look 60) One opening a manual 61) Run-down in appearance 62) Pigsty 63) Confined (with "up") DOWN 1 Silent performer 2) Sister of Urania 3) Melodic 4) The Santa winds 5) Consumer of professional services 6) Some does 7) "Cogito, _ sum" 8) Part of a jazz duo? 9) Baked-potato topping 10) You can fill a lot with them 11) Colorful outdoor shoe 12) Ripped 13) Pt. of MIT 18) Fuss and fret 19) Worker's perk 24) Bingo relative 25) Orderly display 27) As such 28) Slot-machine features 29) Without delay 30) _ Christian Andersen 31) White-crested duck 32) Per person 33) Pale 34) Meager 35) Grammarian's concern 37) Controlled with straps 38) Figures in Scandinavian folklore 43) Perceive 44) Vitae reviewers 45) Gathered intelligence 46) Some equines 47) Star-shaped spice 48) Established fact 49) Wield, as influence 50) Birds with inflatable neck sacs 51) Not when expected 52) Cost of staying in 53) Sword type 56) Deciduous tree 57) Have a late bite Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Fine becoming partly to rather cloudy overnight Visibility Good Wind Northwest force 3 to 4 locally force 4 to 5 backing South to Southwest TODAY TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER MAINLY SUNNY UV: 7 PARTLY CLOUDY UV: 7 26 0 / 20 0 27 0 / 22 0 FEELS LIKE 27 0 FEELS LIKE 28 0 � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS----------- I) Columbus' birthplace 6) Workout in a lake 10) You might have one in your heart 14) Good snorkeling site 15) Apply to a whetstone 16) Width times length 17) Country's basic regulations 20) Mexican gala 21) Ballroom dance 22) Straight up and down 25) Highlanders, e.g. 26) McNally's map partner 30) Camera ature 32) Pharmaceutical plant 35) Specialized languages 41) Go r it to the extreme GROWN INWARD 1G 2E 3N 40 SA TO UN 3 � L 0 G I V E E I E E RN 43) Flower part 44) Coffee liqueur 45) Not shut tight 47) Swear by (with "on") 48) One of a biblical 150 53) Seeing red 56) Let fly 58) Nab in a sting operation 63) Some callbacks for carpenters 66) Tennis ranking 67) The embryo of an invention 68) Discharges 69) Airborne fish-eaters 70) "Answer, please" (Abbr.) 71) Gave the ace new li B Jill Pe er 1s 1b 1N 1b RE A AWS T E I T S L I T DOWN I) Barbed spear 2) Holder of notions 3) Hits allowed 4) Ransom of 5) Sporting wings 6) That boat 7) Ton's soup 8) Counting everything 9) Small-minded 10) Tex-Mex condiment 11) Take the podium 12) Banister post 13) Big breaths 18) Spoil the finish 19) Tripod support 23) Old Testament 24) Benzene source 26) From_ to 27) De-bused, e.g. 28) Temporary 29) Pass judgment 3 l) Poet Angelou 33) Be in competition 34) Sicilian spouter 36) "CD" llower 37) _ gum ( 38) Grendel in 39) Slave away 40) "Don't go!" 42) Old Italian 46) Wars oflslam 48) A place r 49) Unkind look 50) Visitor om 51) Hands over 52) Female parents, 54) Kind of party 55) Shift neighbor 57) Cool coffee 59) "Back to the 60) Muddy up, 61) Pro's adversary 62) "Check this 64) "My Name novel) 65) 440 yards, � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS----------- I) Prefix with "physical" 5) Word in upscale restaurant names 9) They have sticking points 14) Type of man or horse 15) Sale o money no more 16) Second-largest Great Lake 17) Newspaper bigwigs 20) When you might get there, r short 21) Start again om scratch 22) Wading bird with an upcurved bill 23) Spray alternatives 25) Favorable votes 26) Escape clause 27) Debate sides 28) Sound of satis ction 31) Capitol Hill prizes 34) Feudal rmer 35) _ M or (Great Bear) 36) Amazing carpenter 51 52 55 61 39) Chamber effect 40) Type of chair 41) Speaks hoarsely 42) Motive, essentially 43) Wine's partner? 44) Non-sharer 45) Making its way there 46) Travel allowance 50) Pass, as time 53) One not yet a marquis 54) Tum down 55) One with a bipolar disorder 58) Outright 59) Sinister look 60) One opening a manual 61) Run-down in appearance 62) Pigsty 63) Confined (with "up") B Hen Quarters 9 10 11 12 13 16 DOWN I) Silent per rmer 2) Sister of Urania 3) Melodic 4) The Santa winds 5) Consumer of professional services 6) Some does 7) "Cogito, _ sum" 8) Part of a jazz duo? 9) Baked-potato topping 10) You can fill a lot with them 11) Color l outdoor shoe 12) Ripped 13) Pt. of MIT 18) Fuss and et 19) Worker's perk 24) Bingo relative 25) Orderly display 27) As such 28) Slot-machine atures 29) Without delay 30) _ Christian Andersen 31) White-crested duck 32) Per person 33) Pale 34) Meager 35) Grammarian's conce 37) Controlled with straps 38) Figures in Scandinavian lklore 43) Perceive 44) Vitae reviewers 45) Gathered intelligence 46) Some equines 47) Star-shaped spice 48) Established ct 49) Wield, as influence 50) Birds with inflatable neck sacs 51) Not when expected 52) Cost of staying in 53) Sword type 56) Deciduous tree 57) Have a late bite May 28th JAMES DEBONO THE Planning Authority has thwarted an attempt by the daughter of Gozo property mo- gul Joe Portelli, to construct an agricultural store in the pictur- esque Gebel l-Ahmar area near the Kennuna tower, in Nadur. Chloe Portelli hoped her status as a registered farmer, just like her father, would carry the day but Portelli is actually a hospi- tality manager for the Portelli Group's hotel chain and is di- rectly responsible for the oper- ations and project management of these properties. The application was recom- mended for approval by the case officer, but the PA's planning commission decided to post- pone its decision and consider the approval of the new store together with an application to sanction illegal rubble walls. The 20sq.m store was pro- posed on some 22,000sq.m of agricultural land on a site where the PA recently issued an en- forcement order against illegal works, specifically over new rub- ble walls that did not previously exist on the site. Residents had been complaining of these works for months before PA officials intervened. The area is a continuous stretch of open terraced land known as il-Gebel l-Ahmar on the south- ern countryside of Nadur, facing the village of Ghajnsielem, and is highly visible from various sur- rounding areas. The Gozo and Comino Local plan shows the area designated as an Area of High Landscape Sensitivity. The Environment and Re- sources Authority had warned that the environmentally-incon- siderate works had defaced rural landscape, and warned against "visual intrusion" and a "signifi- cant cumulative impact" on the surrounding rural environment. The ERA said that if approved the development would end up "breaking a presently un- disturbed skyline" and create a precedent for similar changes in the surrounding lands. It insist- ed that any interventions should have been limited to "surgical re- pairs to limited stretches of rub- ble wall that are in bad shape". But the case officer dismissed ERA's concerns on the new store, arguing that the proposed agricultural store was compliant with the Rural Policy and Design Guidelines. The Agricultural Advisory Committee originally objected to the new store because the site was registered on a third party and because 40% of the holding was not cultivated. The objec- tion was dropped once the hold- ing started being cultivated and determining that Portelli was an "active arable farmer." Portelli submitted proof of be- ing a famer "in the form of pho- tographic evidence showing site is being cultivated and planted with trees and agricultural re- ceipts pertaining to her." Portelli's 'farmer' daughter's Nadur plans hit snag