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16 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 8 NOVEMBER 2023 NEWS ACROSS 1) Ancient Andean 5) Inverted "e" phonetic symbol 10) Word on a door 14) Mess hall offering 15) Hiker's path 16) "Frozen" princess 17) Comicdom's "___ and Janis" 18) Doesn't own 19) Car payment? 20) Doesn't have enough 23) Pull a lever, maybe 24) 1970 Sidney Poitier title role 28) Speed up, in music (Abbr.) 31) Makes, as a shot 35) Filmmaker Spike 36) "Peter Pan" author 38) Bit of business attire 39) Menu words 40) Radio or television, e.g. 44) "_ y Plata" (Montana motto) 45) "Game of Thrones" airer 46) Big drop in the market, say 47) Makeup of some ceilings 48) Foot-long items? 50) "That is to say ..." 51) Ill-ternpered 53) Perched on 55) 1983 No. 1 hit for Lionel Richie 62) "Pardon me" 65) Grace in "Will & Grace" 66) Teen hero 67) Swing a sickle 68) No longer cool 69) Staff member? 70) Banks of reality TV 71) Compete in roller derby 72) :-), in an email DOWN 1) Apple offering since 1998 2) "Quo Vadis" role 3) Hard to rattle 4) "Potted physician" 5) Act the rooster 6) Brunch servings 7) "Frozen" prince 8) Part of SWAK 9) "Not to mention ..." 10) Smith, "the punk poet laureate" 11) 108-card game 12) Show on which Sen. Frank- en was a regular 13) Rogue computer of sci-fi 21) Like a rock? 22) ACLU concerns (Abbr.) 25) "Drowned Alive" illusionist David ___ 26) Caviar choice 27) Gobs 28) "Who's on First?" straight man 29) Sissy Spacek title role 30) Sings softly 32) "No worries" 33) Tiny criticism 34) Dole's 1996 running mate 37) Canyon comeback 41) "Scandal" network 42) "Silas Mamer" author 43) Pierogi, for example 48) Word div. 49) Most like Solomon 52) Buccaneers' home 54) Ruth's number 56) Pool exercises 57) Neighbor of Minn. 58) "Casablanca" heroine 59) Evidence of decompo- sition 60) Words of denial 61) Hidden valley 62) Frick collection 63) "Listen up!" 64) Musical gift F Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Cloudy and rainy with locally thundery showers Visibility Moderate to poor in showers Wind North Northeast force 5 to 6 locally force 6 to East of area veering Northeast in the afternoon (Gusty near storms) TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER WINDY WITH THUNDERY SHOWERS 29 0 / 23 0 TODAY WINDY WITH THUNDERY SHOWERS 28 0 / 23 0 FEELS LIKE 29 0 FEELS LIKE 30 0 i� FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS-----------� 1) In_ land (spaced) 5) Millan, "the Dog Whisperer" 10) Wall St. whiz 13) Perp's cover story 15) All together 16) Heckler's hoot 40) Actress Downey 41) Sharpton's title 43) More tender 44) Port or saute es, e.g. 47) Focused at work 51) Laundry unit 52) Brilliant stroke 17) Hinged Andersen products 53) Hawaii's "Pineapple Island" 55) AOL, e.g. 20) Zener cards test for it 21) Wards (of 58) Sweepstakes payouts 22) Spot r a roast 62) Play r a sap 23) He sang of Alice 63) Palin's 2008 counte art 24) Beanery patrons 64) In a way, slangily 26) NBC drama starring Martin 65) Visibly embarrassed Sheen 31) Beer belly, say 32) Hosp. triage worker 37) Pulitzer winner James 38) Uses serrated shears DOUBLE CROSSED 1 L 2A 3L 4 A 66) Low man at the Met 67) Place that's r the birds? 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Gorski 5 C 6E 7 s SA gR 1 A 1 R 1 8 1 A L I B 1 4 1 1 A 1 C A S E M 1 N s O N E 1 h O 0 N 1 b Ow s - - 2 E S 2 FE s I A TWI D E N S S 0 TW A I I VE N OMA R E R I N E 551 55 Sp N G s R T A E s T DOWN 1) Add kick 2) "Sigh!" 3) Talk like 4) Rushmore 5) De atist's 6) Co erstone 7) Sty dwellers 8) Singer 9) Latest 10) Higher-ranking 11) Crew 12) They 14) Escapee's 18) Wriggly 19) Braille 23) "Bummer!" 24) Pulls 25) In the 26) Skier's 27) Ginormous 28) Everest 29) Makes 30) Grate 33) Get too 34) "Cruci 35) Gathering 36) Hard 38) Sneak 39) Help 42) Country 43) Deck 45) Current 46) Parti-colored 47) Take 48) Lariat 49) Brought 50) Well-chosen 53) Old Ford 54) Leaves 55) Memo 56) Boot 57) HS junior's 59) Flow 60) "Chandelier" 61) Charged i� FreeDailyCrosswords.com ACROSS-----------� 1) Ancient Andean 5) Inverted "e" phonetic symbol 10) Word on a door 14) Mess hall offering 15) Hiker's path 16) "Frozen" princess 17) Comicdom's "_ and Janis" 18) Doesn't own 19) Car payment? 20) Doesn't have enough 23) Pull a lever, maybe 24) 1970 Sidney Poitier title role 28) Speed up, in music (Abbr.) 31) Makes, as a shot 35) Filmmaker Spike 36) "Peter Pan" author 38) Bit of business attire 39) Menu words 40) Radio or television, e.g. 44) "_ y Plata" (Montana motto) 45) "Game of Thrones" airer 46) Big drop in the market, say 47) Makeup of some ceilings 48) Foot-long items? 50) "That is to say ... " 51) Ill-te pered 53) Perched on 55) 1983 No. 1 hit r Lionel Richie 62) "Pardon me" 65) Grace in "Will & Grace" 66) Teen hero 67) Swing a sickle 68) No longer cool 69) Staff member? 70) Banks of reality TV 71) Compete in roller derby 72) :-), in an email DOWN 1) Apple offering since 1998 2) "Quo Vadis" role 3) Hard to rattle 4) "Potted physician" 5) Act the rooster 6) Brunch servings 7) "Frozen" prince 8) Part of SW 9) "Not to mention ... " 10) Smith, "the punk poet laureate" 11) 108-card game 12) Show on which Sen. Franken was a regular 13) Rogue computer of sci-fi 21) Like a rock? 22) ACLU conce s (Abbr.) 25) "Drowned Alive" illusionist David 26) Caviar choice 27) Gobs 28) "Who's on First?" straight man 29) Sissy Spacek title role 30) Sings softly 32) "No worries" 33) Tiny criticism 34) Dole's 1996 running mate 37) Canyon comeback 41) "Scandal" network 42) "Silas Mamer" author 43) Pierogi, r example 48) Word div. 49) Most like Solomon 52) Buccaneers' home 54) Ruth's number 56) Pool exercises 57) Neighbor of Minn. 58) "Casablanca" heroine 59) Evidence of decomposition 60) Words of denial 61) Hidden valley 62) Frick collection 63) "Listen up!" 64) Musical gift 25th May Portuguese prime minister resigns after police search his residence in corruption probe KURT SANSONE PORTUGUESE Prime Minister António Costa has resigned af- ter police raided his official res- idence as part of a corruption investigation into controversial mining schemes. Police searched Costa's official residence and detained his chief of staff, Vítor Escária, Portugal's attorney general said on Tuesday. Costa has been prime minis- ter since 2015 and is one of the longest serving socialist leaders in Europe. The Portuguese Prosecutor's Office confirmed that Costa is being investigated as part of a probe linked to lithium explora- tion schemes and a green hydro- gen mega-project in Sines. Costa's government has backed numerous schemes to extract lithium in different areas of Por- tugal as part of the EU's wider drive to secure critical raw ma- terials, but those projects have been mired in controversy. Police searches of the prime minister's residence and the ministries of environment and infrastructure are ongoing. In ad- dition to Escária, Costa's person- al adviser Diogo Lacerda — one of the prime minister's closest confidants — and Nuno Mas- carenhas, the socialist mayor of Sines, have also been detained. Antonio Costa (left) being greeted by Prime Minister Robert Abela in Valletta during the Med 9 summit held in Malta last September The EU's longest serving socialist prime minister, António Costa, has resigned after Portuguese police raided his official residence in corruption probe over mining schemes