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" 19) It's spotted in casinos 20) Mars' two 21) More suggestive 23) Give the go-ahead 26) Is a middleman 27) Piano that's not so grand 28) Eye drops brand 29) A long way from stive 30) Brief scouting mission? 32) Bundle-of-joy deliverer of legend 35) Jet fighter heroes 37) Chopper blade ROAD TRIP 1 2 3 4 5 14 17 27 29 35 45 49 50 52 55 61 7 39) Admire om_ 40) Kind of Boy Scout badge 42) Skirts that leave little to the imagination 44) What's due in Venice? 45) Kid's charity associated with Halloween 47) Female wl that's less showy than the male 49) Beach changing places 51) Like some horrid weather 52) Spheres of influence 53) Small shovel 55) Seven on a sundial 56) Famous walkway: ... road 61) Uncanny trio? 62) Mountain climber's accessory 63) Bar, at the bar 64) "Stupid me!" 65) Broke off 66) It's certain along with taxes, it's said 8 9 10 33 13 DOWN 1) Take steps 2) Despite the ct that, briefly 3) Money left on a table, often 4) Deliverers of cold blocks, once 5) Dead reckoner? 6) Leg bone 7) Lids 8) "Wheel of Fortune" gimme? 9) Tailgater's container 10) Response to a stimulus 11) Position to take: ... road 12) Projecting window type 13) Social equals 18) "i" finisher 22) _-courtin' ( dated, country-style) 23) Indian state 24) "The final ontier" 25) Trash: road ... 26) Like a rambling sentence 28) Recurring theme 31) "Here_ trouble!" 33) Having less training 34) Danish currency 36) Exodus mountain 38) Lumber mill noisemaker 41) Old type of photo 43) Cultivation place 46)_ point (example) 48) Having distaste 49) Went spelunking 50) Type of acid 53)_ gin fizz 54) Duck's home 57) Inc., in the U.K. 58) "Let's call_ day" 59) Bunk 60) Australian road sign abbr. 7th October MATTHEW AGIUS A judge has dismissed as premature a re- quest by Yorgen Fenech for a court order preventing the police from testifying as to evidence Fenech gave during meetings in which he requested a presidential pardon. The decision was handed down by Madam Justice Anna Felice, presiding the First Hall of the Civil Court in its Constitutional jurisdiction and consol- idated a decree she had already handed down last November. The admissibility of evidence is to be decided before the courts of criminal judicature, said the court adding that it would not decide on admissibility un- til the matter came before the criminal court which sieves the evidence. After his arrest, Cabinet had declined Fenech's request for a presidential pardon in return for his testimony on the 2017 murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The police had pro- ceeded to interrogate the businessman. In an application filed last November, the Caruana Galizia family had filed an application asking that the police be ordered to testify as to what Fenech had told them in the hope of receiving a pardon. The defence had objected to the request but the court of Magistrates had declared the information he had given as admissible in evidence against him. This breached Fenech's fundamental rights, argued his lawyers. Not only had the information been given confiden- tially to the police after a promise of a pardon, but had been done so without the required safeguards usually granted to suspects at law. It was up to the prosecutor to prove the information released by the accused was given under the necessary safe- guards, argued Fenech's lawyers, say- ing this applied in particular when the prosecuting officer had not been asked to testify in this regard. The State Advocate had counter ar- gued that Constitutional proceedings are not appeals from ordinary courts and that the action was filed too early when the plaintiff had other legal op- tions. In its decision on the matter, the First Hall of the Civil Court in its Constitu- tional jurisdiction, presided by madame justice Anna Felice quoted from Repub- lic of Malta vs Anna-Maria Beatrice Ci- ocanel, decided in 2013, in which it was held that "It is a well established principle that as a rule questions relating to fair trial are to be addressed upon an assessment of the trial as a whole and that it is on- ly at the conclusion of such trial that a proper assessment of whether there has been a fair trial can be made." Judge dismisses request by Yorgen Fenech to prevent police testimony on pardon meetings Yorgen Fenech (right) with his lawyer Gianluca Caruana Curran