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maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 3 MARCH 2021 ACROSS 1) Glitterati 6) Kerplunk 10) Starter for "chute" or "sail" 14) Elizabeth of cosmetics 15) "Tomb Raider" superhero 16) Ear-related 17) Law of the jungle 20) Come to understand 21) They may be black-eyed 22) Churchill successor 23) Smoke detectors 25) Single and double, e.g. 26) Pressing letters 28) Kingly trappings 32) Natalie and the old king 34) Large-scale 35) Word with "date" or "process" 38) Halloween tradition 42) Memb. of Congress 43) Machu Picchu resident 44) Lady vampire 45) Forms mental pictures 48) No longer working (Abbr.) 49) Await 51) Ancient Roman calendar day 53) Heart up one's sleeve? 55) Source of trouble 56) However briefly? 59) Using any means 62) Descried 63) Capital of Cambodia? 64) 38th parallel peninsula 65) A Dumas 66) Captain's heading 67) Run down DOWN 1) Be bratty with 2) Like a sharpshooter's aim 3) Trademark name for a honnone 4) Gun an engine 5) Cuts 6) "The magic word" 7) Ho Chi Minh Trail nation 8) Bobby of hockey 9) Smurf elder 10) Shakespearean heroine 11) To one side 12) Ascends 13) Head woe 18) Make a sharp tum 19) Practicing moral values 24) Famous cartel initials 26) Takes the bull by the horns 27) Still aching 29) Determine 30) Tax time (Abbr.) 31) It's not to be believed 33) Old word after "23" 35) Five-and- I 0 36) Motel room 37) Euphemistic sound of shock 39) It contains four quarters 40) Company whose mascot was Nipper 41) Scale adjustment 45) Chant in an unvarying voice 46) Make possible 47) NC competitor 49) Check entry 50) Upper atmosphere 52) Scrawny chicken parts 53) 1/2 fl. oz. 54) Stew ingredient 55) Fonda's role in "Klute" 57) Freed of weeds 58) In decent shape 60) Dressing ingredient 61) Lobster eggs 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 Visibility Good Wind East Northeast force 4 to 5 becoming East Southeast force 4 Sea Slight to moderate Swell Low Northeast TODAY TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY UV: 2 MAINLY CLOUDY UV: 2 16 0 / 12 0 16 0 / 12 0 FEELS LIKE 16 0 FEELS LIKE 16 0 � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS----------- I) Glitterati 6) Kerplunk 10) Starter for "chute" or "sail" 14) Elizabeth of cosmetics 15) "Tomb Raider" superhero 16) Ear-related 17) Law of the jungle 20) Come to understand 21) They may be black-eyed 22) Churchill successor 23) Smoke detectors 25) Single and double, e.g. 26) Pressing letters 28) Kingly trappings 32) Natalie and the old king 34) Large-scale 35) Word with "date" or "process" 38) Halloween tradition GETTING CHOOSY 42) Memb. of Congress 43) Machu Picchu resident 44) Lady vampire 45) Forms mental pictures 48) No longer working (Abbr.) 49) Await 51) Ancient Roman calendar day 53) Heart up one's sleeve? 55) Source of trouble 56) However briefly? 59) Using any means 62) Descried 63) Capital of Cambodia? 64) 38th parallel peninsula 65) A Dumas 66) Captain's heading 67) Run down DOWN I) Be bratty with 2) Like a sharpshooter's aim 3) Trademark name r a honnone 4) Gun an engine 5) Cuts 6) "The magic word" 7) Ho Chi Minh Trail nation 8) Bobby of hockey 9) Smurf elder 10) Shakespearean heroine 11) To one side 12) Ascends 13) Head woe 18) Make a sharp tum 19) Practicing moral values 24) Famous cartel initials 26) Takes the bull by the ho s 27) Still aching 29) Determine 30) Tax time (Abbr.) 3 l) It's not to be believed 33) Old word after "23" 35) Five-and- I 0 36) Motel room 37) Euphemistic sound of shock 39) It contains ur quarters 40) Company whose mascot was Nipper 41) Scale a ustment 45) Chant in an unvarying voice 46) Make possible 4 7) NC competitor 49) Check entry 50) Upper atmosphere 52) Scrawny chicken parts 53) 1/2 fl. oz. 54) Stew ingredient 55) Fonda's role in "Klute" 57) Freed of weeds 58) In decent shape 60) Dressing ingredient 61) Lobster eggs 24th August i � FreeDailyCrosswords.com 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 r 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 THREE ON THE BEAT 1 P 2 A 3L M S T 1 A L 1 b 0 p N T G E S 0 R T s H A 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 B Armee Du uo 7 I a s 9u 1 1 5 1 1 s T 1� A I V E H I N E s I I C C H EM RO DOWN 1) Strode back 2) One way to 3) Greek penny 4) Gangland's 5) Truck-weight 6) Halloween 7) Schools of 8) Lady Liberty, 9) Not groovy, 10) Physical suffering 11) Geometric 12) Happily_ 13) Dick's Truehart 18) Anger 19) Machinery 23) Mix together 24) Carry-on bag 27) Shrubby evergreen 28) Centers of 29) Minuscule 30) Popular gas 31) Acts human? 32) Titan or Minuteman, 33) Young toon 34) Long and 35) Altar's place 36) Albanian buck 37) White as a 39) Ungrace 40) Barely broiled 44) Prefix meaning 45) Like many 46) Where some 48) Blood relative 49) Drive a nail 50) On mom's 51) Kitchen device 52) Blockhead 53) Italian coolers 54) NASA scrub 55) One mimicking 56) Biblical verb, 57) Ivy League 60) Bert's twin 61) Guggenheim LAURA CALLEJA THE COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the lives and well-be- ing of many people. As the situation develops, the core values of equality and non-discrimination must con- tinue to be protected and pro- moted for all. In light of this, on the Inter- national Women's Day, the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality (NCPE) organised an online Conference to raise awareness among stake- holders and the general public on how the pandemic has af- fected the lives of women and men. International Women's Day is a day dedicated to honour- ing the achievements of women throughout history worldwide. It is usually a day when society reflects on the challenges that hinder women's full potential in order to provide equal opportu- nities for both women and men. In his opening speech, Min- ister Equality Edward Zammit Lewis said that this pandemic has highlighted the exacerbated inequalities that already existed in society. "It has shown us that, now more than ever, equality mat- ters and should be at the fore- front of any policy, legislative and institutional response," he said. Zammit Lewis referred to EIGE's data showing that around 26.5 % of women em- ployees across the EU are in a precarious job, compared to 15.1% of men. In this re- gard, the Maltese Government launched the COVID-19 Wage Supplement Scheme to safe- guard employment in the wake of the pandemic. NCPE Commissioner Renee Laiviera said she was concerned that women not only make up the majority (76%) of healthcare workers in the EU , but they continued to shoulder most of the existing domestic and car- ing responsibilities brought about by the pandemic. NCPE's research study high- lighting that there is a substan- tial increase of 16% gap between female and male respondents reporting an increase in the time spent on home-schooling. Laiviera said that much more work needs to be done to pro- mote and inculcate behavioural changes that break gender ste- reotypes and overcome tradi- tional gender role. Prof JosAnn Cutajar from the Department of Gender and Sexualities, Faculty for Social Wellbeing Gender and Sexuali- ties at the University of Malta, highlighted the challenges to be addressed in moving forward, including a better work-life bal- ance, the benefits and challeng- es of teleworking, and the dif- ferent impacts on women and men across various economic sectors. Laiviera and Andre' Callus, Ex- ecutive, for Policy and Training, gave a presentation on NCPE's research study on the distribu- tion of work in households dur- ing the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings indicate that, the increase in the number of hours spent doing household tasks and childcare increased more for women than for men, while the time spent on leisure, personal care and sleep decreased more for women than it did for men. Following these presentations, a panel with representatives from the health and employ- ment sectors as well as academ- ics discussed the way forward after the pandemic. This online conference, held to mark International Women's Day, offered an opportunity to look at how the pandemic has affected various sectors, the groups most affected by this crisis, the impact of COVID-19 on the world of work and more importantly, the way forward towards a just and equal society post-pandemic. NCPE's International Women's Day Conference 2021 Equality Commissioner Renee Laiviera