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16 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 5 JULY 2023 NEWS ACROSS 1) Sweet wine 5) Conrad's "__ Jim" 9) Hard tennis shot 14) Nest-egg funds, briefly 15) Fit to serve 16) Jai alai basket 17) Starry-eyed 18) Things to repent for 19) From another world 20) Have liberal views 23) Gain admission 24) Shakers founder Ann 25) Give the green light 28) Fuel-economy org. 30) Concrete ingredient 34) Replicate, in a way 35) Rotisserie League concern 37) Reptilian squeezer 38) Drill sergeant's chant 41) Rescue squad member 42) Sought intel 43) Like Odin 44) An "X" may mark it 46) Mess up 47) Went splitsville 48) Van Gogh's partial loss 50) Warms the bench 51) Show a bit of sorrow 57) Blackmore title sur- name 58) Leave off 59) Menthol cigarette brand 61) Adrien of cosmetics 62) Prop for Popeye 63) Popular bidding site 64) Farro machinery pio- neer 65) Kane's Rosebud, e.g. 66) Informal denial DOWN 1) Selfish sort 2) Kind of surgery 3) "Road" or "'raid" fol- lower 4) Carry-on bag inspec- tor 5) Freaked out 6) ___ dome (St. Basil's feature) 7) East Village musical 8) Recipe guesstimate 9) Sequence of tones 10) Bench-clearing brawls 11) "Yeah, sure!" 12) Dele undoer 13) Dynasty after the Qin 21) "Same old same old" 22) Lift the spirits of 25) Needs ibuprofen 26) Batter's dry spell 27) ___ voce (whispered) 28) Old anesthetic 29) Pal on the ranch 31) Scrub, in a way 32) "It'll never work" 33) Had the nerve 35) Tend to the batter 36) Capitol Hill group 39) Puccini offering 40) Abandoned 45) Many a Belieber 47) Like many store- bought olives 49) Singer with the album "25" 50) Credit card action 51) Fighting mad 52) Optimistic view 53) Dandy dressers 54) Disney's boy detective 55) Prefix meaning "mech- anized" 56) Bathroom bar 57) Jr., to III 60) Drain unclogger ingre- dient 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 32 0 / 22 0 TODAY MAINLY SUNNY 30 0 / 22 0 FEELS LIKE 31 0 FEELS LIKE 34 0 A branch of fast-food chain Subway has been slammed for an advert that poked fun at the Titanic sub tragedy that claimed the lives of five people. The Titan submersible imploded in June on its way down to visit the wreck of the Titanic on the seabed, killing all five men onboard. Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, the company that manufactured the Titan, Shahzada Dawood, 58, and his son Suleman, 19, along with UK billionaire Hamish Hard- ing and French explorer Paul-Henry Narge- olet. The Titan's disappearance had sparked a huge search-and-rescue effort over several days. A Subway franchise in the town of Rincon in the US state of Georgia, made a joke about the sub's fate. "Our subs don't implode," a billboard out- side the store read. The quip immediately drew a backlash from observers, who branded it tasteless. "This is at your store in Rincon, GA," wrote one user. "Not only is it distasteful, it's just sad. Do better." "A little too soon. Still chuckled," another wrote. News of the Subway franchise's joke reached head office, who said it wasn't a good idea. Subway US branch criticised for 'distasteful' billboard making light of Titanic sub tragedy The Subway branch made a 'distasteful' joke. Picture: Twitter/OceanGate

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