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16 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 21 JUNE 2023 NEWS ACROSS 1) Aid in crime 5) "Lost Horizon" priest 9) Floored it 13) Wooden shoe 15) Zillions 16) Lawn mower brand 17) Novel for which Lewis declined a Pulitzer 19) Division word 20) Jets, Nets or Mets 21) Cast aspersions on 23) Corp. VIP 25) "Benevolent" fellow 26) Andalusian port 30) One of the Ivies 35) Boring tool 37) First name at the Daily Planet 38) Get the hang of 39) "But there ___ joy in Mudville ..." 40) Utter chaos 42) "Chocolat" actress Olin 43) 'Droid 44) "___ fan tutte" (Mozart opera) 45) Carne home safely 47) Candy flavor 50) Out of practice 51) Slap the cuffs on 52) "Deadwood" actress Jewell 54) Airport shuttle, most likely 58) Grapples, in dialect 63) Original sinner 64) Attribute shared by the first parts of 17-, 30- and 47- Across 66) "The Force Awakens" gener- al 67) 100 cents, abroad 68) Glove material 69) Starbucks size 70) Make homogeneous 71) Insatiable desire DOWN 1) "... and make it fast!" 2) "Domestic goddess" Rose- anne 3) River of Aragon 4) Attention-getting sound 5) Took a powder 6) "1,001 Arabian Nights" hero 7) Witty remarks 8) Bay Area team 9) Downright awful 10) Amoeba's home 11) Harper's Bazaar artist 12) "Let's Make a Deal" option 14) Pluck out 18) Kenny G's instrument 22) Mendicant's plea 24) Giving birth to, on the farm 26) Homeys' homes 27) "Belling the Cat" author 28) "All hope abandon ..." writer 29) "As I see it," in a text 31) "Winnie-the-Pooh" baby 32) Geek Squad customers 33) Basic principle 34) Intoxicating, as wine 36) Some quadrilaterals 41) "___ live and breathe!" 42) Herbert's First Lady 44) Fare you can "crack" before eating 46) Potato chips, to Brits 48) "20 Questions" category 49) "Holy" brat 53) "Straight Outta Compton" genre 54) Brewing ingredient 55) Creative nugget 56) "Press-on" item 57) Boarded up, maybe 59) Aretha's forte 60) "In ___ of flowers ..." 61) Phases out 62) "Never mind" mark 65) "Exodus" hero 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 East Southeast force 3 to 4 becoming East Northeast force 5. To the South of Malta: East Southeast force 4 to 5 becoming East force 5 to 6 TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER HOT & SUNNY 34 0 / 22 0 TODAY HOT & SUNNY 33 0 / 22 0 FEELS LIKE 34 0 FEELS LIKE 35 0 NICOLE MEILAK BICYCLE advocacy group Rota has slammed Infra- structure Malta for failing to clean up cooking oil on the bicycle lane of the Marsa junction three weeks after a major spill closed the area. The oil spill last May saw some 200 litres of cooking oil spill onto part of the Marsa Junction, forcing the closure of the flyover from Garibaldi Road to Aldo Mo- ro. However, the cooking oil drained into the underlying bicycle lane, with the oil still present today. Policy officer Juan Buha- giar Duijst said that three re- ports were filed by Rota over the oil on the bicycle lane. The latest one was sent on Tuesday morning (today). "The presence of oil poses a serious hazard, necessitat- ing urgent and proper meas- ures to mitigate the risks involved. It is completely unacceptable that such a dangerous situation persists week after week," Buhagiar said. "We need to ask ourselves: what more do we require before taking decisive ac- tion? Additionally, where is the road safety council in all this?" The cooking oil spill saw some 300 metres of asphalt resurfaced on the arterial road. At the time, Infra- structure Malta CEO Ivan Falzon said that the bill for the repair works will be footed by the people behind the incident. He could not confirm the cost of the damages, saying assessments by the infra- structure authority are still ongoing. Rota: Cooking oil still on bicycle lane three weeks after Marsa spill Stills from a video showing cooking oil still present on the Marsa Junction bicycle lane (Photos: Rota)