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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 19 MARCH 2023 12 RECIPE CROSSWORD ACROSS 1) Iraqi port 6) Cleansing bar I 0) "___ put hair on your chest!" 14) Expressed in base eight 15) Metric measure, for short 16) Cuisine featuring lemon- grass 17) "Much appreciated!" 19) Easy scam prey 20) Damascus citizen 21) Clairvoyance, e.g. 23) "Little Women" sister 24) Romance novel emotion 27) Show amateurish interest (in) 29) Cloak-and-dagger doings 33) Letters of urgency 34) Small Pacific salmon 35) Line-___ veto 37) Fiddler or hermit 40) Cabinet hardware 41) Word with beginning or end 42) "There you have it!" 43) "It's ___ move" 44) Alter one's course 45) "The ___ Sanctum" 46) Mongolian desert 48) Clever comebacks 50) Antiknock fluids 52) Naval commando 53) "Like it" alternative 54) ___ for tat 56) Amass 61) Palomino's pace, some- times 63) Where some big ideas originate 66) Toiletries case 67) Guesstimate phrase 68) Somewhat harmless swords 69) Soaks, as hemp 70) Jamaican exports 71) Accomplish, as thou might DOWN 1) Automatons 2) Feeling sore 3) Walk of Fame figure 4) Mrs. Rajah 5) Bases, chemically 6) Jamaican dance music 7) "Lorenzo's ___" (1992 film) 8) ___ vera (medicinal plant) 9) 1945 conference site 10) "Why, ___ be a pleasure!" 1I) Crime-scene clue 12) Boutonniere spot 13) Subject of the Middle Ages 18) ___ as a bug in a rug 22) Faux ___ (blunder) 25) Spacious hotel reservation 26) Puts on a leash 28) Francis and Kevin 29) Repulsive 30) Something verboten 31) Carefully considered 32) Manhattan with Scotch 36) Spooky 38) Away from the weather at sea 39) They're frequented at night 42) Broken, as a rule 44) Booed player, often 47) Deli order, initially 49) Recreation area 50) Come in 51) Nut cake 55) NO ___ TRAFFIC 57) Guitar attachment 58) ___-high to a grasshopper 59) Four-stringed instruments 60) Quiet "Over here!" 62) "___ the season to be jolly" 64) Social suffix 65) Tel. books figures F Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Rather cloudy Visibility Good Wind South Southeast force 3 backing Southeast force 4 to 5. Overnight becoming East Southeast TODAY TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER MAINLY CLOUDY CLOUDY 17 0 / 11 0 16 0 / 12 0 FEELS LIKE 17 0 FEELS LIKE 16 0 Bay-stuffed fish with baked radishes INGREDIENTS METHOD 1. Place the whole radishes on a baking tray with the garlic. 2. Season with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil. 3. Bake in the oven at 200°C for 15 mins. 4. Season the fish on the inside and out with salt and pepper and add some lemon juice. 5. Place a bay leaf and a tsp of fennel seeds inside each of the fish. 6. Score the skin on both sides and fry in a hot pan with a little bit of olive oil for 3 or 4 mins on each side. 7. To make the salsa verde, finely chop all the ingredients and mix together with the olive oil. 8. Serve the pan-fried fish with some salsa verde and baked radishes. 9. Remove the skin from the fish. 10. Serve with lemon wedges and the sweet pepper salsa. • 2 cups radishes • 1 clove garlic • Olive oil • Salt and pepper • 2 whole fish (bogue- vopi) • 1 lemon, juice only • 2 bay leaves • 2 tsp fennel seeds Salsa Verde • Handful parsley, finely chopped • Handful dill, finely chopped • 1 clove garlic, finely chopped • 2 tbsp black olives • Salt and pepper • ½ lemon, juice only