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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 29 OCTOBER 2023 12 RECIPE CROSSWORD ACROSS 1) A possible end to night? 5) Defeat on a mat 8) Flip a lid off 13) Vigorous spirit 14) You might make it up 15) Documentarian Michael 16) Unworldly person 17) With a clean slate 18) Bologna ball game 19) Flipped one's deadbolt 22) Act the agitator 23) If you take this, you'll be sick 24) Andean volcano 27) Tiny charged particle 29) Where the Magi came from 33) "None of the above" alternative 34) Coming-___ story 36) 901 in Roman numerals 37) Went from one side to another? 40) Sound heard after a lot of shots? 41) Yale of university fame 42) Strong suit 43) Munro's pen name 45) Santa Barbara-to-Vegas dir. 46) Had a hankering 47) "Go to your room!" com- mander 49) Completely gratify 50) Extremely anxious or excited 58) Elephant gone amok 59) White-and-black stacked snack 60) Varied group 61) True pain 62) "Star Wars" captain 63) Berserk 64) Ethical standards 65) "Yew" homophone 66) Yardstick units DOWN 1) Waiter's offering 2) Thicke of "Growing Pains" 3) Track border 4) Carries out, as laws 5) Comic strip segment 6) Clinched, as a game 7) Water-loving salamander 8) Flower cluster, as on a carrot plant 9) Soup letter 10) Chanel of perfumery 11) Gas station brand 12) One's contemporary 14) Bed of nails user 20) Far from finely ground 21) Be contingent (on) 24) Highland waters 25) Airy courts 26) More than surprise 27) "___ shoe fits ..." 28) 20th larg est island in the U.S. 30) Chipmunk snack 31) Dealt a blow, old-style 32) "My bike can't move be- cause it's two-___" 34) Balder's father 35) Lacking in physical strength 38) Lacquer resin 39)Independ- entone 44) Exempt 46) "Gulliver's Travels" brute 48) Complies with 49) Upright stone monument 50) Study at the 11th hour 51) Corporate symbol 52) Hunchback in a lab 53) Brandy sniffer 54) "... how does your garden ___?" 55) Ingredient in many lotions 56) They lay nits 57) Spoils of war 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 becoming partly to rather cloudy overnight Visibility Good Wind Variable force 2 to 3 becoming Southerly. Overnight backing South Southeast force 4 to 5 TODAY TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY WINDY 26 / 21 0 26 0 / 22 0 FEELS LIKE 27 0 FEELS LIKE 27 0 Bay-stuffed fish with baked radishes 1. Place the whole radishes on a baking tray with the garlic. 2. Season with salt and pepper and drizzle with olive oil. 3. Bake in the oven at 200°C for 15 mins. 4. Season the fish on the inside and out with salt and pepper and add some lemon juice. 5. Place a bay leaf and a tsp of fennel seeds inside each of the fish. 6. Score the skin on both sides and fry in a hot pan with a little bit of olive oil for 3 or 4 mins on each side. 7. To make the salsa verde, finely chop all the ingredients and mix together with the olive oil. 8. Serve the pan-fried fish with some salsa verde and baked radishes. INGREDIENTS METHOD • 2 cups radishes • 1 clove garlic • Olive oil • Salt and pepper • 2 whole fish (bogue- vopi) • 1 lemon, juice only • 2 bay leaves • 2 tsp fennel seeds Salsa verde • Handful parsley, finely chopped • Handful dill, finely chopped • 1 clove garlic, finely chopped • 2 tbsp black olives • Salt and pepper • ½ lemon, juice only By Chef Michael Diacono