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maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 24 FEBRUARY 2021 ACROSS 1) Conceal, like a magician 5) What have we here 9) Favorite's defeat 14) On the safe side, nautically 15) Tobacco dryer 16) Like one born yesterday 17) They can supersize your work 20) Come on stage 21) They're dyeing for a job 22) Sugar substitute? 25) Ballpark figure 26) Drinks to excess 28) Library penalty 32) Standard of perfection 37) One with candy and flowers 38) Certain wire stripper 41) Like morning air, sometimes 42) Residents of Mashhad 43) Riot queller 44) Certain possessive 46) Sandra, Ruby or Kiki 47) Is a nuisance to 53) Pressed for time 58) Like some columns 59) It's in Rio de Janeiro 62) Give off, as perspiration 63) Like an angel or butterfly 64) News blurb 65) Puts into piles 66) Easter preparation 67) Notorious Roman emperor DOWN 1) Strode back and forth 2) One way to go it 3) Greek penny 4) Gangland's Lansky 5) Truck-weight unit 6) Halloween costume option 7) Schools of thought 8) Lady Liberty, e.g. 9) Not groovy, man 10) Physical suffering 11) Geometric function 12) Happily_ after 13) Dick's Truehart 18) Anger 19) Machinery parts 23) Mix together 24) Carry-on bag 27) Shrubby evergreen plant 28) Centers of interest 29) Minuscule amount 30) Popular gas in Vegas 31) Acts human? 32) Titan or Minuteman, e.g. 33) Young toon explorer 34) Long and impressive, as a film 35) Altar's place 36) Albanian buck 37) White as a ghost 39) Ungraceful entrance? 40) Barely broiled 44) Prefix meaning "trillion" 45) Like many teas 46) Where some tears are found 48) Blood relative 49) Drive a nail at an angle 50) On mom's side 51) Kitchen device 52) Blockhead 53) Italian coolers 54) NASA scrub 55) One mimicking 56) Biblical verb, with "thou" 57) Ivy League campus 60) Bert's twin sister, in fiction 61) Guggenheim procurement Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Mainly fine during the day and partly cloudy overnight Visibility Good Wind North force 2 to 3 backing Northwest. Overnight becoming variable Sea Slight TODAY TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER MAINLY SUNNY UV: 2 PARTLY CLOUDY UV: 2 17 0 / 10 0 17 0 / 11 0 FEELS LIKE 17 0 FEELS LIKE 17 0 ANIMAL Welfare Commis- sioner Alison Bezzina has rec- ommended the law surround- ing animal cruelty be changed to give the court wider pow- ers to ban people from having pets in cases of cruelty. On Monday, a man was handed a suspended jail sen- tence for throwing and killing his dog by throwing it down a height of two storeys. The court established that the incident, which hap- pened last September, took place while the 50-year-old from Marsascala was under the influence of alcohol and anti-depressants. The court could not ban the accused from keeping a dog as a pet in the future, because he was charged under the Animal Welfare Act, which did not provide the court with the discretion to carry out the ban. Such a ban can only be or- dered under current legisla- tion if the owner is charged under the Electronic Identi- fication of Dogs regulations. In practice therefore, if a perpetrator is found guilty of animal cruelty but not of microchipping their dog, the courts cannot apply this ban regardless of how hideous their crime against animals is. The Animal Commissioner filed her recommendations to the animal rights ministry after the case made headlines. "My recommendation is that the law is changed in a way that gives the court a wider opportunity to impose this ban wherever cruelty, abuse or neglect of animals is involved, and not only a ban on the ownership of dogs but on the ownership of all ani- mals," Bezzina told Animal Rights Minister Anton Refa- lo. She also recommended that when such a ban is imposed on anyone, no one in their household would be allowed to own animals either. According to sought legal advice this can be achieved by including a well written clause in the main Animal Welfare Act CAP 439. 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