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16 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 27 APRIL 2022 ACROSS 1) Certain term of respect 5) Caliph's faith l 0) Dishonestly acquired booty 14) "The Princess Diaries" star Hathaway 15) Diving gear 16) Succulent plant 17) Picnic item, sometimes 20) Wound from a boxer? 21) Elbow conspiratorially 22) Short, straight punch 23) Homer's "Heck!" 24) "Caught in the act!" 26) Ophthalmologist's concern 28) Schooner's cargo, often 29) Shopping outlet 31) Little laugh 32) "Dog Barking at the Moon" painter Joan 34) "Christ the Redeemer" city 35) That lass 36) Picnic items, sometimes 41) Sound of pleasure 42) Big Band or Victorian 43) "Listen!" old-style 45) Hollywood's Eastwood 48) Lancelot and others 50) Wing-tip tip 51) Stumbling blocks 54) Busy pro in Apr. 55) Give a pink slip to 56) Possessive pronoun 57) Satisfy, as a debt 59) Enjoy a mystery 61) Picnic items, sometimes 65) Look___ (explore) 66) Syllables sung while skipping 67) City near Lake Tahoe 68) Too inquisitive 69) Sprinkle all about 70) Former Soviet inits. DOWN 1) "Gaping" gullet 2) Like some steroids 3) Unlikely protagonist 4) High school sports event 5) Suffix for "Marx" or "capi- tal" 6) Screenwriter's creation 7) Humdinger 8) Home 9) Rundown and filthy 10) Close friend 11) Wood of Hollywood 12) Vicinity 13) Debilitated 18) Photocopier tray filler, perhaps 19) Be hot under the collar 23) Hoover construction 25) Draconian 27) Tree with edible nuts 30) Firms up, as muscles 33) Ape of Borneo 35) Mentally acute 37) Word with "second" or "laws of' 38) First wheels, for many 39) Scones 40) Widens 44) Baseball's Griffey 45) Pay one's share 46) Spanglish speaker, often 47) Map parts 49) Kolkata dress 52) Creatures with six or more legs, typically 53) Baseball or tennis 58) At some distance 60) Stocking shade 62) Flirtatious 63) Bit of hesitation? 64) Word in the Postal Ser- vice creed Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Partly cloudy Visibility Good Wind North Northwest force 7 backing Northwest force 5 to 6 and becoming force 4 to 5 overnight TODAY TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER MAINLY CLOUDY MAINLY CLOUDY 16 0 / 10 0 16 0 / 10 0 FEELS LIKE 16 0 FEELS LIKE 16 0 � � FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS----------- I) Loosed om bondage 6) "Quiet down!" 10) "_ Was a Rollin' Stone" 14) Logical proposition 15) On the ocean 16) Word with "screen" or "teen" 17) Not perfectly round 18) African spread 19) Break in the action 20) Multipurpose ointment 23) Before, in the beginning 24) Like a volunteer 25) Bygone Turkish title 27) Agreeable types? 30) Based on the number eight 32) Casbah setting 37) "Where the heart is" 38) Candy and other sweets MY TREAT! 1F 2R 3E 4E sD 1 lEMMA 1 b V O I 41) Crime boss 42) Prepares 43) Sung drama 45) Oration plat rms 49) Word on many price tags 50) Pants pressing line 55) Vicksburg combatant, briefly 56) Make lots of money 60) Taunting remark 61) Gas leak indicator 62) Emcee's opening lines 63) Word be re a discounted price 64) It's carried by singers 65) Earthy pigment 66) Grows more antiquated 67) Tou ament position 68) Stops working B Kenneth Holt 1P 1A 1P 1A 0 L E B I N T G H D 0 N T RO N L UN C H E R �GE E E E S T S DOWN I) Disk type 2) Idolize 3) Doesn't hold 4) Mideast bigwig 5) Carpenter's 6) Any port in 7) Deplete 8) Alabama march 9) Pilgrim to 10) It may be hard 11) Flatterer 12) Having more time 13) Word indicating 21) One in mid-thrust 22) Tokyo, rmerly 26) Public house 28) Country estate 29) Wearer of 31) Kind of board 33) Zamboni sur 34) In-flight in 35) Get_ of 36) Evening party 38) Frolicking 39) Capable of 40) Opposite of 41) Police officer 44) Point of no 46) "We hold these_ 47) Wish undone 48) Absolutely 51) Laugh-a-minute 52) Provide, as 53) Square things 54) Reduce to 57) Custodian's 58) Christian designer? 59) Grimm beginning 60) _ few rounds Joaquin Phoenix in Malta next week for Ridley Scott's Napoleon epic MATTHEW VELLA HOLLYWOOD stars Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby will be in Malta next week where they will star in Ridley Scott's epic on the French emporer and military leader, Napoleon Bonaparte. Scott's 'Napoleon' will star Phoenix and Kirby as, respective- ly, Napoleon and his wife Josephine. The film, an Apple Studios production, will be shot in loca- tions in Attard, Senglea, Mellieha, Siggiewi, Mdina, Valletta, Fort Ricasoli as well as the Malta Film Studios. Ridley Scott is returning to Malta for the third time, after shooting White Squall in 1996 and Gladiator in 2000. Napoleon' is the fifth production in Malta this year, with other productions from the United States, United Kingdom, Sweden and Malta. A Napoleon war feature film has been the dream of many filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick, who famously failed to make it happen. Ridley Scott is keen to take over the baton. "Napoleon is a man I've always been fascinated by. He came out of nowhere to rule everything — but all the while he was waging a romantic war with his adulterous wife Josephine. He conquered the world to try to win her love, and when he couldn't, he conquered it to destroy her, and destroyed him- self in the process." The film will take a personal look at the origins of this histo- ry giant and his climb to power, through the view of his love, Josephine. It will be also portraying Napoleon's most famous battle, as well as his relentless ambition and astounding stra- tegic mind. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Napoleon Bonaparte