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maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 11 NOVEMBER 2020 ACROSS 1 Tolkien monsters 5) Ink's color, to Browning 9) Milking-machine attachment 14) Early-bird special, e.g. 15) Cape Canaveral cancellation 16) Least favorite pet? 17) Group that includes the gluteus maximus 20) "Whoopee!" 21) A beagle's prominent feature 22) Landlord's income 23) Cleaned one's plate 24) Car grille protector 26) Palm fruit 28) Agra garment 30) Great Dane it's not 34) Salt of the sea? 37) Like a certain wolf or eagle 39) Princess' headgear 40) Attractive quality 44) Clear a cribbage board 45) Aquatic organism 46) Sauce type 47) Ready to go 49) Type of excuse or duck 51) Hard to comprehend 53) Tyrannosaurus_ 54) Kind of rally 57) Two-part 60) Biblical boat 62) Dora the Explorer, e.g. 64) Pay for merely showing up 67) Back of a boat 68) Without equal 69) Vague quantity 70) Merry-go-round figure, to a child (Var.) 71) Logan postings 72) Lid swelling DOWN I) Missouri River city 2) Contradict, as testimony 3) Group of officers 4) Speak after one too many 5) Hold spellbound 6) Ghost's word 7) Cruel person 8) One difficult to locate 9) Bullish times 10) Broken-down 11) Editing mark 12) Odd opposite 13) Quiet relaxation 18) Alternatives to buses 19) River to the Caspian Sea 25) Kind of therapy 27) British art gallery name 29) Excluding nothing 31) Honored guest's site 32) Approximately 33) Like meat past its prime 34) Tightly-strung 35) Diarist Frank 36) Ready for harvest 38) Samantha of "Doctor Dolittle" 41) Busybodies 42) Tropical malady 43) Anonymous 48) Anjou or Bartlett 50) Cause for cramming 52) Talk excessively 54) Wine option 55) Hostile party 56) Endorser, of a sort 57) 100-yard contest 58) As many as 59) Imitative sort 61) Boat speed unit 63) Mix, as a salad 65) Whatever amount 66) Book balancer Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Partly to rather cloudy with isolated showers Visibility Good Wind Northeast force 3 locally force 4 to 5 to Southeast of area in the morning Sea Slight TODAY TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER POSSIBLE SHOWERS UV: 4 PARTLY CLOUDY UV: 4 21 0 / 15 0 21 0 / 16 0 FEELS LIKE 21 0 FEELS LIKE 21 0 � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS- - - - - - - - - - - 1) Astronomical scales? 6) Public boulevard 11) Didn't overlook 14) "Thanks, I've had_ nice time" 15) College class hours 16) Attempt 17) Tt makes a dinner romantic 19) Handwoven Scandinavian rug 20) Ideal finish? 21) Utterance when pointing to a woman 22) Satis the munchies 23) Large irregular spot 27) Poseidon's spear 29) Surname among boxing legends 30) Geological timespan (Var.) 32) Short, erect tail 33) Eldest March sister 34) Kidney-related 36) Sesame seed and honey con ction 39) Bangkok coin 41) Some extinct birds FOR BRIGHT SOLVERS 43) Tells it like it isn't 44) Noted capitalist John Jacob 46) Fair attractions 48) A country's output, r short 49) Cup part 51) Not imaginary 52) Rainbow gradation 53) Achieves success 56) Kiddie transport 58) Payable 59) Exist as a group 60) Have ee and clear 61) "_ if by land ... " 62) Person of little importance 68) Show_ ( entertainment industry) 69) Cause of many yawns 70) Frighten 71) 67 .5 degrees, on a compass 72) Brings to ruin 73) Brief in speech B Carl Cranb 1 L 2 1 3B 4R S A G P 7 A a 5 9 E 1 b 1 5 1 A w 1 A R E A l N T s 1� R y 1 i : A N D H T 1 k y A E R A T I ,, E N T � � b u 6 b N I 6 b '" I N N u I C A R E 7 N E R s E ----- ____ m DOWN 1) Lancelot du_ 2) Popular savings 3) Jerry's ice cream 4) "A face made 5) Outstanding 6) Afghan coin 7) Nickname in 8) Glimpse 9) Old-time anesthetics I 0) Earthbound 11) Nighttime illuminator 12) Indo-European, 13) OK Corral 18) Hosted, as a 23) Bossa-nova 24) They are entered 25) Summer cooler 26) Nice roll to 28) Two-part 31) Bottommost 35) Ore sources 37) Show's place 38) On the say-so 40) Actress Spelling 42) Dugong or 45) Matched, as 47) Last at Belmont 50) Choice breed 53) Southwest building 54) Angry encounter 55) Musical repetition 57) Chilling? 63) Engine sound 64) " ... _of thee" 65) Alligator-snouted 66) Sluggers' stats 67) Ball holder � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS----------- I) Tolkien monsters 5) Ink's color, to Browning 9) Milking-machine attachment 14) Early-bird special, e.g. 15) Cape Canaveral cancellation 16) Least vorite pet? 17) Group that includes the gluteus maximus 20) "Whoopee!" 21) A beagle's prominent feature 22) Landlord's income 23) Cleaned one's plate 24) Car grille protector 26) Palm fruit 28) Agra garment 30) Great Dane it's not 34) Salt of the sea? 37) Like a certain wolf or eagle 39) Princess' headgear 40) Attractive quality MORNING SOLVING 44) Clear a cribbage board 45) Aquatic organism 46) Sauce type 4 7) Ready to go 49) Type of excuse or duck 51) Hard to comprehend 53) Tyrannosaurus_ 54) Kind of rally 57) Two-part 60) Biblical boat 62) Dora the Explorer, e.g. 64) Pay for merely showing up 67) Back of a boat 68) Without equal 69) Vague quantity 70) Merry-go-round figure, to a child (Var.) 71) Logan postings 72) Lid swelling B Kenneth Holt DOWN I) Missouri River city 2) Contradict, as testimony 3) Group of officers 4) Speak after one too many 5) Hold spellbound 6) Ghost's word 7) Cruel person 8) One difficult to locate 9) Bullish times 10) Broken-down 11) Editing mark 12) Odd opposite 13) Quiet relaxation 18) Alternatives to buses 19) River to the Caspian Sea 25) Kind of therapy 27) British art gallery name 29) Excluding nothing 31) Honored guest's site 32) Approximately 33) Like meat past its prime 34) Tightly-strung 35) Diarist Frank 36) Ready r harvest 38) Samantha of "Doctor Dolittle" 41) Busybodies 42) Tropical malady 43) Anonymous 48) Anjou or Bartlett 50) Cause r cramming 52) Talk excessively 54) Wine option 55) Hostile party 56) Endorser, of a sort 57) 100-yard contest 58) As many as 59) Imitative sort 61) Boat speed unit 63) Mix, as a salad 65) Whatever amount 66) Book balancer May 8th NICOLE MEILAK EU flagship programmes like Horizon and Erasmus+ will see major financial top-ups after the European Parliament successfully negotiated an additional €16 bil- lion on top of the budget package finalised in July. Back then, at a Brussels sum- mit, EU leaders had agreed on an overall budget of €1824.3 bil- lion. But yesterday the European Parliament's budget negotiators secured an extra €16 billion to be directed primarily at reinforcing the EU's flagship programmes to protect citizens from the COV- ID-19 pandemic and help pro- vide opportunities to the next generation. This is the fruit of weeks of nego- tiations, with Parliament's budget negotiators and the Council Pres- idency reaching a compromise on the next Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 and the EU's Own Resources structure. "Parliament's top priority was to secure an increase for flagship programmes that were at risk of being underfinanced under the European Council's July 2020 agreement, jeopardising the EU's commitments and priorities, no- tably the Green Deal and the Digi- tal Agenda," a statement reads. Budget negotiators devised a roadmap to help introduce new Own Resources into the EU budget. Apart from a plas- tics-based contribution starting in 2021, the roadmap includes an Emissions Trading System re- source starting from 2023, a digital levy from 2024 and an FTT-based Own Resource together with a fi- nancial contribution linked to the corporate sector or a new com- mon corporate tax base starting from 2026. The three EU insitutions will be meeting regularly to assess the implementation of funds made availableon the legal basis of Art. 22 of the Treaty on the Function- ing of the EU, with expenditure spent in a transparent manner un- der the scrutiny of Parliament and Council. These institutions will be checking for any deviation from the previously agreed plans. Better climate and biodiversi- ty tracking methodologies will be implemented to ensure that a minium 30% of the total Union budget and Next Generation EU expenditures will be dedicated to climate objectives, and 7.5% of annual spending to be dedicated to biodiversity objectives starting from 2024. European Parliament secures added finances for Erasmus+