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16 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 4 AUGUST 2021 ACROSS 1) Group of eight 6) Combine, as resources 10) Composer Johann Sebastian 14) Eucalyptus-eating creature 15) Certain Hindu royal 16) "God's Little____" 17) Edible heart 20) "Are we there____?" 21) Barnyard cluckers 22) Simple fellows? 23) Abstract painting style 25) Bowling division 26) Clever tactic 28) Give too much work to 32) Longest river in France 34) Cleanse oneself 35) Police officer 38) Things cast from far away 42) After-expenses total 43) Thing to play 44) Large-eyed lemur 45) Builds a fire under 48) Announce online 49) Aria, e.g. 51) Freshlyinteresting 53) Excessive or irrational devo- tion to something 55) Call at home? 56) Place to park 59) It can cover your boo-boo 62) Astute 63) Lewis of track fame 64) ____ firma 65) Blows it 66) "Trick" joint 67) More crafty DOWN 1) "Fine by me, I guess" 2) Apple leftover 3) Dermal decorator 4) "Rumble in the Jungle" fighter 5) Russian country house 6) "Now!" 7) Thousand_,Calif. 8) Word with "moment" or "sec" 9) Ad-____(improvises) 10) The Caped Crusader 11) Respond to, as an oppor- tunity 12) Witchy woman 13) Does a dress-making chore 18) Basil, e.g. 19) It brings joy when gushing 24) Combustible funeral heap 26) Prepare in advance 27) Brain or ear area 29) States ofmerriment 30) Apply gently, as hair gel 31) Eggs in a science lab 33) Capture all of one's attention 35) It follows naturally 36) Elevator man 37) Secretive "Check this out!" 39) The way of Lao-Tze 40) Australian outback runner 41) Easy type ofrun 45) All Martians 46) Render capable 47) Place to loll 49) Exodus commemoration 50) "A rose by any_ name ..." 52) Lets off steam 53) Not real 54) Country bumpkin 55) Arid 57) Fairy-tale beast 58) Rip 60) Delivery vehicle 61) Costa_ Sol Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Fine, locally partly to rather cloudy Visibility Good except in any fog patches Wind Southeast force 3 or 4 at first and during the night, veering Southerly by morning and becoming force 2 or 3 during the day TODAY TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER HOT & SUNNY UV: 9 HOT & SUNNY UV: 9 38 0 / 27 0 38 0 / 26 0 FEELS LIKE 41 0 FEELS LIKE 40 0 i� FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS - - - - -- - - - - - � 1) South Pacific island group 6) Chases away, as a pest 11) Ambulance letters 14) Not fitting r a purpose 15) Loose fiber r caulking 16) "That els good!" 17) Some ceramic pottery 19) Biochemistry abbr. 20) Lean 21) Communist leader, once 23) Abolitionists wanted to end it 27) Cal Ripken's record was about one 28) Musk-secreting cats 29) Charitable organizations, often 31) Make reparations, e.g. 32) Three-toed animal with a snout 33) Shortening used in recipes? 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23) Abstract painting style 25) Bowling division 26) Clever tactic 28) Give too much work to 32) Longest river in France 34) Cleanse oneself 35) Police officer 38) Things cast om r away A-B POSITIVE 1 2 3 4 5 6 14 15 17 20 32 38 42 59 62 65 42) A er-expenses total 43) Thing to play 44) Large-eyed lemur 45) Builds a fire under 48) Announce online 49) Aria, e.g. 51) Freshly interesting 53) Excessive or irrational devotion to something 55) Call at home? 56) Place to park 59) It can cover your boo-boo 62) Astute 63) Lewis of track me 64)_ firma 65) Blows it 66) "Trick" joint 67) More crafty 7 8 9 13 DOWN 1) "Fine by me, I guess" 2) Apple leftover 3) Dermal decorator 4) "Rumble in the Jungle" fighter 5) Russian country house 6) "Now!" 7) Thousand_, Cali 8) Word with "moment" or "sec" 9) Ad-_ (improvises) 10) The Caped Crusader 11) Respond to, as an opportunity 12) Witchy woman 13) Does a dress-making chore 18) Basil, e.g. 19) It brings joy when gushing 24) Combustible neral heap 26) Prepare in advance 27) Brain or ear area 29) States of merriment 30) Apply gently, as hair gel 31) Eggs in a science lab 33) Capture all of one's attention 35) It llows naturally 36) Elevator man 37) Secretive "Check this out!" 39) The way ofLao-Tze 40) Australian outback runner 41) Easy type of run 45) All Martians 46) Render capable 47) Place to loll 49) Exodus commemoration 50) "A rose by any_ name ... " 52) Lets off steam 53) Not real 54) Country bumpkin 55) Arid 57) Fairy-tale beast 58) Rip 60) Delivery vehicle 61) Costa_ Sol 17th October 'Grazzi Gahan': PN's new billboards target justice minister's chat with Yorgen Fenech KARL AZZOPARDI THE justice minister's remark on "ignorant labourites" in a WhatsApp chat with the Tu- mas magnate Yorgen Fenech, has been featured on the Na- tionalist Party's newly erected billboards with a witty take on a well-worn salutation for min- isters. The PN billboards in Tal-Bar- rani Road, Zejtun and Portes de Bombes, Floriana shows Edward Zammit Lewis walk- ing out of a door to door visit, as the resident tells him "Well done minister" (Prosit Minis- tru), and he replies "Thanks Ġaħan" (Grazzi Ġaħan). The reference is to WhatsApp texts between Zammit Lewis and 17 Black owner Yorgen Fenech, in which the minister refers to Labour voters with the derogatory term 'Ġaħan Laburist'. The context is as yet unknown. One of the exchanges hap- pened just after Zammit Lew- is, then a backbench MP, had addressed a press conference with Robert Abela, also a backbench MP, in which the justice minister criticised for- mer Opposition leader Simon Busuttil over attempts to ini- tiate an inquiry into Fenech's offshore company 17 Black. He has since offered no apol- ogy for his comment, insisting the context was in relation to the electoral system and how it needed to better encourage the politics of service. "I have been a Labourite from the womb, I worked and sacrificed my profession and my family, and Labourites know this," he said, offering no apology The Nationalist party will be presenting a motion of no confidence against Zammit Lewis in parliament.