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16 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 08 SEPTEMBER 2021 ACROSS 38) Eye with desire 39) "The Lord of the Rings" creature 40) Performers of plays, collectively 41) Edible freshwater fish 42) Raspy 44) "Goodness!" 45) How inferior goods are 38) Peril 39) Tidal bore 40) Correct, as text 41) Anxious 42) That thing's 45) One of the major networks 46) Crumbs leftover from- dinner 47) Widespreadcraze 49) Dead to the world 52) Bit of buckshot 53) Increasing a store's merchandise 57) With_ in sight 58) Dirt for a garden 59) Affirm positively 60) Chilean range 61) Blockhead 62) 1990 World Series champs DOWN 1) It has points in the desert 2) Player of a double reed instrument 3) Like half-melted snow 4) On edge 5) Lake seen from Toledo 6) Deliveryvehicle 7) Easter basket item 8) Not wholesale 9) Somethingsnakesdo 10) Formally surrender 11) Comfort verbally 12) Cathedral city of England 13) Suffix cousin of "trix" 18) In a Mideast head- dress 19) Concealed 23) Shakespeare's river 24) Analyst's chemical 26) Guinea pigs and ham- sters, often 27) Burning result 30) Dubai dignitary 31) Charon and others 32) Shoestring 33) Communicate silently 34) Boxers and retrievers 35) Door part 36) Biased 37) Parts of a healthy diet 38) Christmas mo. 41) Creative painter, e.g. 42) Smitten 43) Like stadium rows 44) Some woodland deities 46) Alternative to .net 48) Church part 50) Prime-time hour 51) Concludes 52) Bombard, as with water balloons 53) Santa _, California 54) Mafia head 55) Definitely not later 56) Seven, on a grandfa- ther clock 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 with isolated showers, locally thundery, gust and with hail Visibility Good becoming moderate to poor in showers Wind East Northeast force 3 to 4 TODAY TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER ISOLATED SHOWERS UV: 9 THUNDERY SHOWERS UV: 9 29 0 / 21 0 28 0 / 22 0 FEELS LIKE 30 0 FEELS LIKE 29 0 i� FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS-----------� 1) Longhorn snarer 6) Appreciative and happy 10) Entrance into a mine 14) Sounds from a piglet 15) Pink, in a steakhouse 16) Prefix with "diction" 17) Three types of boys 20) Clairvoyance, e.g. 21)_ out (barely manages) 22) Young mewl er 23) Cultured gem 25) Fit an item inside another 26) Seriously harm 28) Re se receptacles 32) Freeze, as glass 34) Time of "com rt and joy" 35) Digit that gets socked 38) Two types of boys 42) Ballpark fig. 43) Equine shade 44) "I don't care" gesture 45) What opposites do 48) Quite simple 49) Land measure 51) Dan of "Laugh-In" 53) Do a cop's job 55) Had on 56) What "it" plays 59) Two types of boys 62) "_ here" ("Ditto") 63) Cheat at blindman's buff 64) Article of ith 65) Baby blues, r some 66) Isn't sting 67) "The _ of Kilimanjaro" BOYS WILL BE BOYS, PART II 1L 2A 35 45 so 6G 7L aA 9D 1 b I N K 5 1 R A - - - 1 P L A y H 1 b u 5 2 E5P 2 EKE 2 P 2 EAR 2A I M 32 1 C U 3 P - 3 ME 5E 3 Nb ----- 4 5 oA E N E B L E E 5 6 I N E E N E T 6 SNOW5 DOWN 1) Run easily 2) Is unwell 3) Like the one 4) Blue hue 5) Milo of "Barbarella" 6) Thin porridges 7) Laddie's love 8) "_ we having 9) "From the_ 10) Drops off or 11) Credit card 12) Coastal ature 13) Practically 18) Creole vegetable 19) Some smiths 24) Flightless flock 26) Be good at 27) Air force standouts 29) Scavenger 30) Mongrel 31) Pilsner alte 33) Most cheeky 35) "The Hate 36) Cross to bear 3 7) On pins and 39) "_ so st!" 40) Long-jawed 41) Bird similar 45) Ridges on 46) Criminals 47) Ripped 49) Deck out 50) It's be re 52) Adam and 53) Area beyond 54) A or B, in 55) Hone 57) Again, om 58) Catches on 60) Caribbean, 61) Biddy i� FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS-----------� 1) Part of any profit calculation 5) "Be it_so humble ... " 9) Debris at the base of a mountain 14) With the ability 15) Extreme anger 16) Shoe parts 17) Getting hyped r the weekend 20) Kleenex, e.g. 21) Go rs and such 22) One putting people in their places 23) Like bone-dry land 25) Relaxing health cility 28) Place r a pig 29) Cut at an angle 31) Chimney parts 33) Pago Pago's place 34) Scarcity 35) Becoming allies 38) Peril 39) Tidal bore 40) Correct, as text 41) Anxious 42) That thing's 45) One of the major networks 46) Crumbs leftover from dinner 47) Widespread craze 49) Dead to the world 52) Bit of buckshot 53) Increasing a store's merchandise 57) With_ in sight 58) Dirt r a garden 59) Affirm positively 60) Chilean range 61) Blockhead 62) 1990 World Series champs DOWN 1) It has points in the desert 2) Player of a double reed instrument 3) Like half-melted snow 4) On edge 5) Lake seen om Toledo 6) Delivery vehicle 7) Easter basket item 8) Not wholesale 9) Something snakes do 10) Formally surrender 11) Com rt verbally 12) Cathedral city of England 13) Suffix cousin of "trix" 18) In a Mideast headdress 19) Concealed 23) Shakespeare's river 24) Analyst's chemical 26) Guinea pigs and hamsters, often 27) Bu ing result 30) Dubai dignitary 31) Charon and others 32) Shoestring 33) Communicate silently 34) Boxers and retrievers 35) Door part 36) Biased 37) Parts of a healthy diet 38) Christmas mo. 41) Creative painter, e.g. 42) Smitten 43) Like stadium rows 44) Some woodland deities 46) Alte ative to .net 48) Church part 50) Prime-time hour 51) Concludes 52) Bombard, as with water balloons 53) Santa _, Cali ia 54) Mafia head 55) Definitely not later 56) Seven, on a grand ther clock 29th October MATTHEW VELLA WELCOME guests: that is how national airline Air Malta will adopt gender-neutral language to replace the customary "ladies and gentlemen" salutation. Earlier today, Air Malta an- nounced that executive chair- person David G. Curmi had despatched an internal communi- cation for customer-facing staff to start adopting gender-neutral lan- guage such as 'guests' and more generic customer greetings. This shall apply when Air Malta staff addresses its customers, both in-flight and on the ground. "For an airline with a multicultural cli- entele, inclusion is a very impor- tant value, and we want to express this attitude shift in our language as well," Curmi said. Air Malta said it will also be making linguistic changes to all its company documentation in- cluding contracts and operational manuals. Air Malta is not alone in adopt- ing gender-neutral language. Lufthansa's airlines – which in- clude Lufthansa, Eurowings and Brussels Airlines – are referring to travellers as "guests" and greeting them with: "Good morning here on board". Airlines who made the change are Japanese airline JAL in 2020, European budget carrier EasyJet and Canadian flagship airline Air Canada back in 2019. But how will ground and in- flight staff address people in indi- vidual situations, where the use of gender-neutral language is always tricker. What about "sir" and "madam"... does a gender-neutral expression for these gender-assuming titles exist? We asked Air Malta, and the answer is... they have not yet come to that bridge. Customarily, people assume each other's gender when address- ing each other, but today space is made not just for two genders, but for many more, serving as a way for people who fall outside the binary of "man" and "woman" to describe themselves. The use of "they" and "them" to address a person who do identify as he/him or she/her, has become a staple of email signatures: a new language of identity that lets peo- ple know that you are not going to assume their gender, avoiding getting someone's gender wrong, as well as benefiting the LBGT+ community. Mx. (pronounced 'mix') is con- sidered as the gender-neutral equivalent of Mr. or Mrs., and was was first recorded in an April 1977 edition of the magazine The Sin- gle Parent. United Airlines added Mx to its online dropdown menu of titles for those not wishing to indicate gender, and is working with ad- vocacy groups to train staff on preferred pronouns, LGBT work- place competency and other in- clusivity initiatives. The gender-neutral honorific has grown in popularity over the past few years, as more people outwardly and openly identify as transgender, gender-noncon- forming and nonbinary — and have rejected the idea that only two options, male and female, exist. Merriam-Webster added Mx. to its unabridged dictionary in 2016 and to its website in 2017. Air Malta will no longer address you as 'ladies and gentlemen'

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