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maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 19 MAY 2021 ACROSS 1) Improbable wish 6) A Muse 11) Environmental hazard, for short 14) Maternally related 15) Ruby or diamond, e.g. 16) Chicken_ king 17) Did a gymnastic maneuver 19) It may have a nap on the floor 20) Smart_ (obnoxious ones) 21) Likes and dislikes 23) Most risque 26) "___ of the Field" (Poitier classic) 27) Spiral-horned beasts 28) Type of clock or power 30) Rocky peaks 31) Brief period of time 32) Mauna _ (Hawaiian peak) 35) Hamlet's catch 36) Ancient Roman magistrate 38) Palindromic Bobbsey 39) "Deep Space Nine" character 40) "Me too" 41) Aphid, to a gardener 42) Word on a nutritional label 44) Cleans the slate 46) New delivery 48) In an angry way 49) Nigerian currency 50) Cook with direct radiant heat 52) Add a soundtrack 53) Browns, as onions 58) Anger 59) Feudal vassal or lord 60) Sidestep, as an issue 61) An inferior dog 62) Certain church officer 63) Transfer, as at a nursery DOWN 1) Christmas mo. 2) Retrovirus contents, for short 3) Canal site 4) Gains 5) Whimpered 6) Act the bouncer 7) Unpleasant smell 8) Belt-hole makers 9) Football formation 10) Aged one 11) Dramamine prevents it 12) High-pitched woodwind 13) Baseball backstops 18) Amerada_ (bygone petroleum company) 22) He fought Frazier three times 23) '80s fashions, now 24) How most fans cheer 25) Material for some bikes 26) Batty, in Spain 28) "There's no music in___ ... " -- Ruskin 29) Former Yugoslavian president 3] ) Samoan money 33) It might come with a few pointers 34) Jittery 36) Acme 37) Huck Finn's boat 41) Type of resistance 43) Paddle kin 44) Ashtabula's lake 45) Window-shade part 46) Like Sanskrit, Hindi and Bengali 47) South Pacific island nation 48) Up-and-_ 50) Raised racehorses 51) Rush furiously, as a river 54) Feel pain, perhaps 55) Use the microwave 56) Tokyo, formerly 57) Fix, as a clock Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Cloudy with some light rain at times Visibility Good except in rain Wind South to Southeast force 2 to 3 Sea Slight Swell Negligible TODAY TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER LIGHT RAIN UV: 9 PARTLY CLOUDY UV: 9 25 0 / 17 0 26 0 / 17 0 FEELS LIKE 24 0 FEELS LIKE 27 0 i � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS -- - - - - - - - - - � 1) They give a hoot 39) Desertlike 5) Put in the idge 40) Hept- plus one 10) Not a nice film 41) Saint Francis' home 14) Pullman track 44) Warm, on a hunt 15) Flood embankment 45) Life rce 16) Middle word of Descartes' 47) Pours down conclusion 49) The end, musically 17) Uneasy, eerie sensation 50) Catch r a Florida 19) Frigid fisherman 20) From the mountains of Peru 51) Periodic payment 21) Dustin Hoffman movie 54) Chicken part 23) Defeated king of Troy 58) Be a good couch potato 26) They're "company" 59) Orchard grumps? 27) Completely su r round 62) Tablet company 30) Like some teas 63) Mitigator 33) Empty truck's weight 64) Small amount of Greek? 34) Causes to attack 65) Fancy dressers of 1960s 36) Feel remorse over London 37) Small margin of victory 66) Wanda of "Curb Your 38) Grand_ (wine phrase) Enthusiasm" 67) Sign of sorrow CR-UNCH TIME 1 0 3L 45 S c 6 H 7 I B L 9L 1 k 1 l � m� m A I L E 1 c R E E 1 I 2 A N D E A N 2 R I 2 A 2 2 � 2 9 c I R C L E '" A R 3 A I C T p 55 s I A z S c R � � C E 6 e A s 0 D 6 s y K 2 s 1 A s N 0 0 R 6 8 A p E R E s A K E p 1 R G 0 0 L D s I E I __ I s B � 3A u R 3l I I I E E __ B A 1mmm � � L E 0 T s s A I I I 6 E A R ___ DOWN 1) Ocean predator 2) Alert of danger 3) Emulated Pinocchio 4) More heavy-eyed 5) Places r 6) Lobster's mother 7) "So_ heard!" 8) "_ We Forget" 9) Basutoland, 10) Military zone 11) Mix, as dogs 12) Jamaican tangelo 13) A la _ (with 18) A wi of Henry 22) Wilson of Hotel" 24) Baldwin and 25) Art of writing 27) Guiding beliefs 28) Racial equality 29) Found ult 31) Enveloping 32) Impolite glances 35) Emmy winner 39) Trouble spot 41) Prime minister's 42) Batting coach's 43) Weather map 46) Lasso wielders 48) Part of BBC 51) Grand _ 52) Shell od? 53) Heavy low 55) Shower gel 56) _ record 57) Ivan the Terrible's 60) Seek answers 61) Royal jelly � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS----------- 1) Improbable wish 6) A Muse 11) Environmental hazard, r short 14) Maternally related 15) Ruby or diamond, e.g. 16) Chicken_ king 17) Did a gymnastic maneuver 19) It may have a nap on the floor 20) Smart_ (obnoxious ones) 21) Likes and dislikes 23) Most risque 26) "_ of the Field" (Poitier classic) 27) Spiral-ho ed beasts 28) Type of clock or power 30) Rocky peaks 31) Brief period of time 32) Mauna _ (Hawaiian peak) 35) Hamlet's catch 36) Ancient Roman magistrate DRIVE-TH RU 52 61 38) Palindromic Bobbsey 39) "Deep Space Nine" character 40) "Me too" 4 I) Aphid, to a gardener 42) Word on a nutritional label 44) Cleans the slate 46) New delivery 48) In an angry way 49) Nigerian currency 50) Cook with direct radiant heat 52) Add a soundtrack 53) Browns, as onions 58) Anger 59) Feudal vassal or lord 60) Sidestep, as an issue 61) An inferior dog 62) Certain church officer 63) Trans r, as at a nursery B Tom Cobb 11 12 13 16 19 DOWN 1) Christmas mo. 2) Retrovirus contents, r short 3) Canal site 4) Gains 5) Whimpered 6) Act the bouncer 7) Unpleasant smell 8) Belt-hole makers 9) Football rmation 10) Aged one 11) Dramamine prevents it 12) High-pitched woodwind 13) Baseball backstops 18) Amerada_ (bygone petroleum company) 22) He ught Frazier three times 23) '80s shions, now 24) How most ns cheer 25) Material r some bikes 26) Batty, in Spain 28) "There's no music in_ ... " -- Ruskin 29) Former Yugoslavian president 3] ) Samoan money 33) It might come with a w pointers 34) Jittery 36) Acme 37) Huck Finn's boat 41) Type of resistance 43) Paddle kin 44) Ashtabula's lake 45) Window-shade part 46) Like Sanskrit, Hindi and Bengali 47) South Pacific island nation 48) Up-and-_ 50) Raised racehorses 51) Rush riously, as a river 54) Feel pain, perhaps 55) Use the microwave 56) Tokyo, rmerly 57) Fix, as a clock 20th September JAMES DEBONO THE roads agency Infrastructure Malta has filed a bizarre planning request to relo- cate the existing monument by Anton Agi- us in Mosta, and make way for a bombastic monument dedicated to the Virgin Mary. As expected, the transport minister Ian Borg's agency's 'religious' inspired request has drawn the ire of the Superintendent for Cultural Heritage. IM wants the Agius monument dedicat- ed to Maltese missionaries, currently lo- cated on the roundabout junction between Triq id-Difiza Civili and Triq il-Missjunar- ji Maltin, to be relocated to the entrance of the Mount Saint Joseph retreat house. But plans for a new, 7m-high monument dedicated to the Virgin Mary, set on an or- nate pedestal, were also inserted in plans for changes to the roundabout junction and bypass lanes approved in April. The Mosta local council endorsed the plans. But now the cultural heritage watchdog is insisting that Agius's 'Monument to the Maltese Missionaries', meant to com- memorate the Christian Jubilee Year in 2000, was "purposely created to be viewed prominently and with a 360 degrees view- point and should not be relocated to a less prominent location." The SCH reminded the Planning Au- thority of the cultural heritage significance of the monument which "forms part of the artistic oeuvre of the Maltese sculptor Anton Agius", whose repertoire includes the Sette Giugno monument as well as the Manwel Dimech statue in Valletta. The monument was also cast by "an important contemporary Italian bronze founder" who was commissioned a num- ber of important artistic works in Malta, including the Sette Giugno monument. "Should the monument be relocated as proposed, the significance of its design and its surrounding plaques will be completely lost and therefore from a cultural heritage point of view, this will be not desirable," the SCH said. The SCH warned the significance of its design will be completely lost if relocated, and wants the Agius sculpture retained in its central position in a roundabout within the street bearing its name. Ian Borg's roadbuilders want Virgin Mary instead of Anton Agius sculpture Bizarre request to relocate Mosta sculpture by Anton Agius to be replaced with 7m-high ornate statue of Virgin Mary The Anton Agius sculpture in Mosta could be replaced by a seven-foot Virgin Mary statue