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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 10 SEPTEMBER 2023 12 RECIPE CROSSWORD ACROSS 1) Academic hurdle 6) Far from wealthy 10) Fish-landing hook 14) "Fear of Fifty" writer Jong 15) Far from polite 16) Spanish stew pot 17) Meaningless verbiage 19) Old-world word of woe 20) Cow catchers 21) She'll curl your hair 23) Blood mover 25) Farmyard noises 26) What a deceitful person speaks with ? 32) Red-light situation, in the studio 33) Make like a lion 34) Diesel of Hollywood 37) Pipsqueak 38) High as a kite 40) "The Biggest Little City in the World" 41) Inexact no. 42) Edible Pacific tuber 43) "Put me down, too" 44) Meaningless talk 47) Church instrument 50) ___- jerk response 51) Former Eagles coach Dick 54) Bolivian beasts 59) Malarial symptom 60) Evasive language 62) Fluff found in pockets 63) "My Name Is ___ " (former NBC show) 64) "___ Rae" (Sally Field movie) 65) Fill completely 66) Diarist Frank 67) Bug-hitting-the-windshield sound DOWN 1) Experience with the heart 2) Culinary author Rombauer 3) Light bites 4) Performs in a play 5) Airport event 6) Toast to one's health 7) Collective pronoun 8) They're not in your favor in Vegas 9) Everything else 10) Hockey player for the defense 11) Dramatic poker bet 12) Drinker's vessel 13) Doesn't eat, for instance 18) Dandelion or goldenrod, e.g. 22) Watch-step connection 24) Virginia port city 26) Fairway cry 27) Tedious task 28) Objurgation 29) Set of parts to be assembled 30) "We are ___ amused" 31) Happy and carefree 34) Presidential thumbs-down 35) Word of division 36) Small recess 38) Igor's workplace 39) Poetic eye 40) Convoy member 42) Variation in color 43) Intensifies 44) Reproduction cell 45) Give the go-ahead 46) Big name in computers 47) Elong ated O's 48) Aqua ___ (gold dissolver) 49) Soldier , in slang 52) It can be good, bad or bright 53) Temporary grant 55) On the apex 56) Jung or Reiner 57) ___ mater 58) Three-handed card game 61) Buffet beverage server F Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Partly cloudy during the day becoming mainly cloudy overnight Visibility Good Wind East force 2 to 3 becoming variable. Overnight becoming Northwest force 3 TODAY TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY MAINLY SUNNY 29 / 22 0 31 0 / 21 0 FEELS LIKE 30 0 FEELS LIKE 31 0 Braised pork cheeks 1. Soak the porcini in boiling water for 10 mins and set aside reserving the liquid. 2. Gently fry the leek in butter and olive oil with the carrot and celery until tender. 3. Season with salt and pepper. 4. Add the pork cheeks and the mushrooms. 5. Add the bay leaves and the whole sprigs of thyme and keep frying until the pork cheeks have been browned on all sides. 6. Add the sherry and allow the alcohol to evaporate. 7. Add the sage and the porcini and allow to simmer. 8. Add the red wine and the water from the porcini, season with salt and pepper. 9. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer, cover and cook for at least an hour. 10. Top with parsley and serve the pork cheeks with mashed potato or polenta. INGREDIENTS METHOD • 1 leek, chopped • Butter • Olive oil • 1 carrot, chopped • 1 celery stick • Salt and pepper • 300g pork cheeks • 100g oyster mush- rooms • 1 bay leaf • A few sprigs thyme • 1 glass sherry • A few leaves sage • 2 glasses red wine By Chef Michael Diacono