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16 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 26 JULY 2023 NEWS ACROSS 1) Slender-waisted stingers 6) Screen material 10) Texter's "I think ..." 13) Philanthropist Brooke __ 14) IHOP supply 15) Young gent 16) Fox animated sitcom that features Moe's Tavern 18) Raw rock 19) Foldable shelter 20) Some jams consist of these 21) Times to revel 22) Strands via blizzard 24) Roll-call reply 26) Falcons' home (Abbr.) 27) "The Four Seasons" com- poser 30) Prefix with "net" or "mural" 33) Guitarist Eddy 35) Stone vessel 36) Fiddle stick? 37) NBC sitcom that featured Duke's bar 39) DJIA listings (Abbr.) 40) Gridder Manning 41) Like stray cats 42) Land of Luxor 44) Sudden digression 46) Passenger-screening gp. 47) Dessert wine 48) Drag racers 52) Hatchery sound 54) Arrive by plane 57) "Video" singer India.___ 58) Motorists' org. 59) AMC drama that featured the Los Pallas Hermanos restaurant 61) Terse reproof 62) "I wanna!" 63) River of Paris 64) UFO crew 65) Hardy lass 66) Fall flower DOWN 1) Naomi of "King Kong" 2) Pale with fright 3) Shorthand pro 4) Antebellum's opposite 5) ___ Lanka 6) Video game island 7) Suffix with "switch" 8) Natural tanner 9) Some printers, briefly 10) CBS sitcom that featured the Tropicana nightclub 11) Colt carrier 12) Works of Pindar 14) Made cotton candy 17) Pony Express load 21) Historic time 23) White House aide 25) Hillary's conquest 27) Colorado resort 28) Cough soother 29) Research org. 30) Skeptic's snort 31) The Big Easy, for short 32) ABC drama that featured the Bang Bang Bar 33) Dodge reintroduced in 2013 34) July 4 honoree 38) How squatters live 43) Some band rehearsal areas 45) Org. with an elephant mascot 46) Novelist Morrison 48) Do a nature walk 49) Round trip? 50) TV journalist Sawyer 51) Passover feast 52) Cracker spread 53) Toward sunrise 55) NASA moon landers, briefly 56) Candied veggies 59) Crunchy sandwich 60) Code-cracking org. 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 40 0 / 27 0 TODAY HOT & SUNNY 39 0 / 27 0 FEELS LIKE 40 0 FEELS LIKE 41 0 THE Mediterranean Sea is home to a stunning variety of marine life. To en- courage the preservation of our natural environment and the protection of unique marine fauna, MaltaPost introduces a set of five stamps portraying marine species found in the Mediterranean waters. Local artist Andrew Micallef, renowned for his meticulous depictions of Maltese flora and fauna, created all five stamp art- works. Scientific consultation was provid- ed by Professor Patrick J. Schembri from the Department of Biology at the Univer- sity of Malta. The new stamps will be issued in sheets of 10, with each stamp measuring 44mm x 31mm, a comb perforation 14.0 x 13.9 and bearing the Maltese Cross watermark. Each sheet measures 185mm x 118mm and was produced in the offset process by Printex Ltd. The issue consists of 1,500,000 of the €0.01 stamp, 100,000 of the €0.10 stamp, 100,000 of the €0.20 stamp, 50,000 of the €0.50 stamp and 30,000 of the €2.50 stamp. The philatelic issue will be available from all Post Offices in Malta and Gozo as of this Friday 28 July. New philatelic issue celebrates marine life in the Mediterranean