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maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 2 DECEMBER 2020 ACROSS 1) Large school of fish 6) Emulate a picador 10) Pastrami source 14) Bay of Naples isle 15) Account of incidents or events 16) Very big birds 17) It comes monthly 20) "No" in France 21) Coin introduced on 1/1/99 22) Baby's diversion 23) Makes certain 25) Continuity problems 26) Smidge 27) Man who hit 660 homeruns 28) Common title word 31) To remain in abeyance 34) Tourist's entry permit 35) Relative of 16-Across 36) They know their cues? 39) Impel 40) Throw, as a coin 41) In other words, in Ovid's words 42) It gets hot in a bag 43) Quick gait 44) Historical leader? 45) Word of respect to a woman 46) Bacterium 50) Backward, upon the waters 53) Cash in Cancun 54) Snapshot, in slang 55) Change you shouldn't take if offered 58) Forget to include 59) Pastoral woodwind 60) Machete kin 61) They have kids 62) Plant parasite 63) Ream unit DOWN 1) Vista 2) Fire extinguishing gas 3) Begins the bidding 4) Compass line 5) Book review types 6) Agitates 7) Cinco de Mayo snack 8) "Sting like a bee" athlete 9) Breach of trust 10) Financial burdens 11) Put off 12) Calm in a storm 13) Lighthouse locale 18) Kicked oneself for 19) Sharp barks 24) Affording benefit 25) Struggles for air 27) In the_ of (among) 28) "God shed His grace on_" 29) Term on terrycloth 30) Division for Orioles 31) Touch borders with 32) Covert transmitting device 33) Pond organism 34) Sound of acceleration 35) Actress Winona 37) Haphazardly 38) Anny branch until July 1947 43) Truck weight without fuel or load 44) Galileo's birthplace 45) Track & field get-togethers 46) Donnybrook 47) Editorialise 48) Place for stagnant water 49) Showy success 50) Physicist's study 51) Foolish oaf (Variant spelling) 52) Barbershop request 53) Conspiracy 56) Kimono belt 57) Ebenezer's exclamation 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 except in some showers Wind Southwest force 2 to 3 becoming force 4 to 5 TODAY TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER ISOLATED SHOWERS UV: 2 THUNDERY SHOWERS UV: 2 20 0 / 13 0 18 0 / 11 0 FEELS LIKE 20 0 FEELS LIKE 18 0 � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS----------- I) Hole r a ship's anchor rope 6) Have an edge against 10) Accessories r a touring band 14) "_ a Grecian Um" (Keats) 15) Noted rocket launchers 16) Bondsmen provide it 17) Exactly what's expected 20) Tripod r art 21) At the scene 22) Not sooner or later 24) Musician's calling card 27) Article of ith 28) 10,000,000 rupees, in India 31) Am,'s length 33) Horse kin 34) Give in 36) Fu ished with otgear 38) Not relevant 42) Noted ventriloquist Lewis 43) Word with security or networking 45) Type of shot taken in winter 48) Vertical section between treads 50) Beatnik's drum 51) Printing proof 53) Grove item 55) Ending for the very best 56) Colorless el gas 58) Gloomy, to the Bard 61) Was dignified in a tough situation 66) Word with role or house 67) Bursting star 68) Laughing matter 69) Make no longer made 70) Thicke of sitcoms 71) Certain rial spender B Rob Lee 1A 1 1P 1s 1 N A S A 1 h A I L T HE c 1 b u R s E - ------ 2b NS I T E 2 E p sk 0 T H A N 65 H 0 w E D � M c A L 6� 0 V A u M 0 R L D 7A L A N 7b M A N I DOWN 1) Emulate a 2) Toothpaste 3) It's not always 4) Parlor seat 5) Baseball's 6) Bullwinkle 7) "A Christmas 8) Take un 9) Fried, lded 10) Handle without 11) Boat dock 12) Some downhill 13) Precipitates, 18) Scarlet or 19) Type of training 22) Money machine-making 23) Cookie atop 25) More disorderly 26) Most populous 29) TKO callers 30) Make king 32) Middle ears? 35) Bangkok 37) Art_ (retro 39) Beginning 40) Wide-screen 41) Issues of the 44) Land parcel 45) Michelangelo 46) Deadly 47) Support, as 49) St. John's 52) Soul l crooner 54) Homophone 57) Cartoon character 59) Yodeler's 60) Many a homecoming 62) Costa del _ 63) Donated eggs? 64) "That's my 65)_Lanka � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS----------- I) Large school of fish 6) Emulate a picador 10) Pastrami source 14) Bay of Naples isle 15) Account of incidents or events 16) Very big birds 17) It comes monthly 20) "No" in France 21) Coin introduced on 1/1/99 22) Baby's diversion 23) Makes certain 25) Continuity problems 26) Smidge 27) Man who hit 660 homeruns 28) Common title word 31) To remain in abeyance 34) Tourist's entry permit 35) Relative of 16-Across 36) They know their cues? WHATS HIS NAME? 2 3 4 5 14 17 51 52 55 61 18 6 7 15 56 39) Impel 40) Throw, as a coin 41) In other words, in Ovid's words 42) It gets hot in a bag 43) Quick gait 44) Historical leader? 45) Word of respect to a woman 46) Bacterium 50) Backward, upon the waters 53) Cash in Cancun 54) Snapshot, in slang 55) Change you shouldn't take if offered 58) Forget to include 59) Pastoral woodwind 60) Machete kin 61) They have kids 62) Plant parasite 63) Ream unit 8 9 19 B Carl Cranb 10 11 12 13 16 57 DOWN I) Vista 2) Fire extinguishing gas 3) Begins the bidding 4) Compass line 5) Book review types 6) Agitates 7) Cinco de Mayo snack 8) "Sting like a bee" athlete 9) Breach of tr ust 10) Financial burdens 11) Put off 12) Calm in a storm 13) Lighthouse locale 18) Kicked oneself r 19) Shar p barks 24) Af rding benefit 25) Struggles r air 27) In the_ of (among) 28) "God shed His grace on_" 29) Term on terrycloth 30) Division r Orioles 31) Touch borders with 32) Covert transmitting device 33) Pond organism 34) Sound of acceleration 35) Actress Winona 37) Haphazardly 38) A y branch until July 1947 43) Truck weight without el or load 44) Galileo's birthplace 45) Track & field get-togethers 46) Donnybrook 4 7) Editorialize 48) Place r stagnant water 49) Showy success 50) Physicist's study 51) Foolish oaf (Variant spelling) 52) Barbershop request 53) Conspiracy 56) Kimono belt 57) Ebenezer's exclamation May 1st Gozo business says no to tunnel referendum LAURA CALLEJA GOZO'S main business lob- by group has come out against a Nationalist Party proposal for a referendum to determine whether a Gozo-Malta tunnel should be built. The feasibility of the Gozo-Malta tunnel should be determined through technical studies and not a referendum, the Gozo Business Chamber said. It was reacting to a proposal floated by PN leader Bernard Grech on Sunday for a referen- dum among Gozitans once all studies are concluded. "Given the studies that have already been undertaken on the project, the publication of a pre-qualification question- naire, and the submissions made, calling into question this project at this stage through a referendum would not be ap- propriate. Such a step should have been undertaken when this project was initially in- cluded in the national policy agenda," the GBC said. The Chamber said the tun- nel was an important long- term project had to be carried out over multiple legislatures. The GBC said that it had been approved in Parliament, and agreed upon by both sides of the House. In April last year, a motion put forward by the government in favour of a tun- nel project received bipartisan support and PN MP Chris Said had said the Opposition was "wholeheartedly" behind the project. However, despite last year's vote, the PN's position on the tunnel project has remained ambiguous. "Tinkering with such an im- portant long-term project which has multiple benefits for the Gozitan society and econ- omy is not acceptable. This would put back to the draw- ing board an important project which has been in the pipeline for many years," the Chamber said. The GBC reiterated that a permanent link between Mal- ta and Gozo would level out the "inequalities between the Gozitan and Maltese econo- mies." The Chamber said it would make living in Gozo a choice which is not con- strained by the present physi- cal limitations, whereby youth who want to settle in Gozo can do so freely. "From an economic perspec- tive it would mean that the present limitations linked to insularity would no longer be the case," the Chamber said. The GBC says a permanent link between Malta and Gozo would level out the 'inequalities between the Gozitan and Maltese economies'