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maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 23 JUNE 2021 ACROSS 1) Problems for directors 5) At a quick rate, poetically 10) Some precipitation 14) Eye layer 15) '70s White House name 16) Shoppers' bag 17) Easily achieved goals 20) Dark 21) Aspen features 22) Whacks 25) Insult but good 26) After-hours school gp. 29) Common welcomers 31) Last name for an unbalanced egghead? 35) _ Gabriel 36) Very angry 38) Buffalo's canal 39) It may be needed to be an NFL player 43) Cause of some shivers 44) Begin an Internet session 45) 3-D hospital procedure 46) Pungent condiment 49) Duck's domain 50) Stereotypically stubborn animal 51) Minnow variety 53) Bygone despot 55) Some kind of nut 58) Pigeon's perch 62) Weaponry that's neither large nor small 65) Black cat, to some 66) Chose not to dine out 67) _vera 68) British title 69) Year-end tunes 70) Some evergreens DOWN 1) Streaming service 2) Shakespeare's river 3) Cry like a baby 4) Colonial title in India 5) _Arbor 6) "Animal Farm" critter 7) Line on a graph 8) Hits on the head 9) Decorate with gold leaf 10) Played a banjo, in a way 11) It may be proper in a sentence 12) Mayberry's self-jailer 13) Moist 18) Type of energy 19) German wife 23) "Legal" prefix 24) Drag one's feet 26) "Don't give me that!" old-style 27) Evergreen-forested landscape 28) Black_ ( cattle breed) 30) Posture problem 32) Donna's intro? 33) Stadium features 34) Abominable creatures 37) Cereal grain killer 40) It's designed to get your attention 41) Charged particles 42) Ultimate object 4 7) Hindu Mr. 48) "The_ Cometh" 52) A Muse 54) Pass on in a race, as a baton 55) Disaster relief grp. 56) Footnote word 57) Leaves home? 59) Take-out order? 60) Shoot up 61) Storm centers 62) Like hip Brits in the '60s 63) "Shop_ you drop" 64)_ and outs Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Fine Visibility Good Wind Variable force 2 to 3 becoming East. To the South of Malta: South Southwest force 4 to 5 Sea Slight Swell Low South Southeast TODAY TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER HOT AND SUNNY UV: 9 HOT AND SUNNY UV: 9 37 0 / 27 0 38 0 / 27 0 FEELS LIKE 39 0 FEELS LIKE 40 0 � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS----------- I) Recipe abbreviation 5) Loose, as a gem 10) "Catholic" and "cynic" endings 14) Geometry solution, sometimes 15) Baker's tool 16) Dinner or lunch, e.g. 17) Arrange in stacks 18) Type of wrench 19) Olympic skater Kulik 20) Where to find couch potatoes 22) Tiny apple ncier 24) Kind of skates 27) Onetime tadpole 28) "Kapow!" 30) MasterCard alte ative, familiarly 31) Frolicking aquatic animals 34) Bark sharply 35) Command r Capt. 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Parker 12 13 32 33 DOWN 1) Streaming service 2) Shakespeare's river 3) Cry like a baby 4) Colonial title in India 5) _Arbor 6) "Animal Farm" critter 7) Line on a graph 8) Hits on the head 9) Decorate with gold leaf 10) Played a banjo, in a way 11) It may be proper in a sentence 12) Mayberry's self-jailer 13) Moist 18) Type of energy 19) German wi 23) "Legal" prefix 24) Drag one's et 26) "Don't give me that!" old-style 27) Evergreen- rested landscape 28) Black_ ( cattle breed) 30) Posture problem 32) Donna's intro? 33) Stadium atures 34) Abominable creatures 37) Cereal grain killer 40) It's designed to get your attention 41) Charged particles 42) Ultimate object 4 7) Hindu Mr. 48) "The_ Cometh" 52) A Muse 54) Pass on in a race, as a baton 55) Disaster relief grp. 56) Footnote word 57) Leaves home? 59) Take-out order? 60) Shoot up 61) Storm centers 62) Like hip Brits in the '60s 63) "Shop_ you drop" 64) _ and outs 1st October LAURA CALLEJA THE Press Club Brussels Europe has launched the website for submitting en- tries to the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism, which will be awarded in October. The Prize, with the support of the Euro- pean Parliament, is a tribute to journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was assassi- nated in October 2017. The website was launched during an event held at the Press Club Brussels Eu- rope in Brussels and was addressed by the Quaestor of the European Parliament Da- vid Casa. In his speech, MEP Casa said that through this newly established prize, the European Parliament is sending a strong message of its commitment towards the protection of journalists. "Journalists should be free to carry their investigations without any threats or con- sequences. We cannot allow another jour- nalist to be murdered because of his or her investigations. The Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism will not only serve as a well-deserved tribute to Daphne Caruana Galizia, but it will also serve as a reminder that the European Parliament will do its utmost to protect and defend journalists. "Our message is clear to those who kill or threaten journalists: the European Par- liament is your enemy. We will also not al- low states to suppress freedom of speech," Casa said. The event was also addressed by Mat- thew Caruana Galizia, who thanked the European Parliament for its support and for the creation of this prize. "I want this Prize to encourage other journalists to increase their investigative work, and for individuals to become journalists and do this work. We need more people to join us in uncovering corruption and fight for justice in Europe and beyond," Matthew Caruana Galizia said. Head, Human Rights and Safety at In- ternational Federation of Journalists, Er- nest Sagaga, pointed out that 31 journal- ists were killed in Europe over the last six years. "We have journalists currently un- der police protection in Italy. If the Italian government had not taken that decision, we would be mourning more of our col- leagues for doing their jobs." Sagaga said that while Europe still fa- vours better than other parts of the world, when it comes to press freedom and jour- nalists being killed, he was starting to see a worrying trend. "Journalism is a public good... justice for Caruana Galizia is not only justice for her murder, but justice for media freedom." Submissions can be made either by jour- nalists themselves on their investigative work, or else by other colleagues in the sector. Investigations must be published or broadcast by a media outlet in the Eu- ropean Union. The winner of the Prize will be chosen by an independent jury and will win €20,000. Submissions can be made on www.daph- nejournalismprize.eu, with the call for ap- plications being open until 1 September 2021. Submissions now open for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism The Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize will be awarded this October, with applications closing on 1 September