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16 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 12 JULY 2023 NEWS ACROSS 1) Plant used as a ground cover 6) Genealogist's map 10) Small pooches, briefly 14) Significant_ 15) Redundant exclamation 16) Rapper on "Law & Order: SVU" 17) Solo at a recital 19) Worst possible score 20) "Cross my heart!" 21) Match, as a bet 22) Director Snyder 23) Chicago paper, familiarly 25) Vast area 27) Plastic pipe material 30) Catch, in a way 32) Tyrolean peak 33) Basketball player, informal- ly 36) Horse that hasn't won 40) Set of morals 41) Tour transportation 43) "Wow!" 44) Entered 46) Texas flag symbol 48) Money-managing exec 49) Former NBA star Ming 50) Arboreal street name 51) Greet casually 55) Ready to pluck 58) Support, with "up" 59) Air quality org. 61) Discriminatory, in a way 65) Mischief-making Norse god 66) "Well, aren't you the perfec- tionist!" 68) "You asleep?" response 69) Year, on monuments 70) Not fancy at all 71) Like a broken bronc 72) Like one end of many pools 73) "Fiddler on the Roof' matchmaker DOWN 1) Arizona tribe 2) Redding ofR&B 3) Irwin or George Bernard 4) Religious principle 5) Loud, like a crowd 6) "More than I want to hear!" 7) Some deli loaves 8) Show host 9) Driver's license require- ment 10) Domino's deliveries 11) Neptune's realm 12) Cougars or Bobcats, to auto buffs 13) Feed, as a furnace 18) Computer command under "File" 24) Telly watchers' network, with "the" 26) Cessna or Lear product 27) "That was close!" 28) Say "yea," say 29) Red Scare lawyer Roy 31) Word in a letter sign-off 34) A choirmaster may toot one 35) "Star Trek" genre 37) Go out with 38) "And others," briefly 39) Expected outcome 42) Do some parasailing 45) Place to jot things down 47) See 5-Down 51) Banana concoction 52) Enticing emanation 53) Li'l Abner's surname 54) State one's views 56) Full of vim and vigor 57) Napoleon on Elba 60) Oily skin can cause it 62) Self-confident words 63) Burlesque bit 64) Daly of "Cagney & Lacey" 67) Keystone lawman 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 parliamentary session was suspended on Tuesday after a power cut hit the building. PL MP Alex Muscat was addressing the House in regard to a new agricultural Bill, when a blackout occurred. Muscat was seen visibly confused before asking Deputy Speaker David Agius whether he shall continue or not. It was then that Agius suspended the session. After 10 minutes or so, Speaker Anglu Farrugia returned to announce that parliament has been adjourned for this morning. MPs in the dark: Parliament suspended after power cut