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16 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 15 NOVEMBER 2023 NEWS ACROSS 1) Tub activities 6) Flat-necked snake 11) It may be skipped in alphabetization 14) "I, Robot" author Asimov 15) Head piece? 16) Bottom seam 17) "Pronto!" 19) Monte Rosa, e.g. 20) United Kingdom brew 21) Psychology 101 topic 22) Trike rider 23) International agreement 27) Mass-to-volume ratio 29) Outburst from Homer Simpson 30) Cows' chew 32) Some bread loaves 33) ___ few rounds (box) 34) Susan Lucci character 36) Lauer and LeBlanc 39) Carpenters and harvest- ers 41) Cause of some food poisoning 43) Ill-mannered one 44) Send for consultation 46) Fabric with patterns 48) Not to be trusted 49) Curtain that no longer exists 51) Hand part 52) Feel feverish 53) Surgically ties 56) Class within a class 58) Flightless bird 59) Android offering 60) Chairman in The Beatles' "Revolution" 61) Damage superficially 62) Now-or-never time 68) Store in casks, as wine 69) Kind of silence 70) Crystal-bearing rock 71) They are not positive 72) Searched for bugs 73) Old-fashioned music hall DOWN 1) Power-drill accessory 2) Type of pile at a camp- ground 3) Mai ___ (tropical beverage) 4) Hurriers make it 5) High school subject 6) "Elementary" network 7) Dinner table crumb 8) Emulated a sheep 9) Horseshoe score 10) Contrary word? 11) "What I meant was ..." 12) Old serf 13) Ready for a refill 18) Kind of study or trail 23) ___ Allan Poe 24) "There's ___ here but us ..." 25) "Makes sense" 26) Formal proclamation 28) "Clapping" animal 31) Ice-cream utensil 35) Name on a wanted poster 37) Early spring bloom 38) What the rich live in? 40) Evening, in Milan 42) Light 45) Spins, as the earth 47) Commerce stoppage 50) Certain male relative 53) Lake ___ (Lake Geneva) 54) Adult insect 55) Church steeple 57) Teased (with "with") 63) Tentative taste 64) Animal doc 65) Bambi's mother, for one 66) Shakespeare's "Much ___ About Nothing" 67) Tokyo cabbage? 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) 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 GOING ON A TH Elizabeth C. Gorski -�------ 1 I 2N 3c 4 6c 7H 9 1 M R A I 1 A R L E N T 20 0 R OA R O D L E ASS KAT 1 P 1 1 1 N NA E E L A IUM U NG E D O L 0 T E R I N DOWN 1) Apple 2) "Quo 3) Hard 4) "Potted 5) Act the 6) Brunch 7) "Frozen" 8) Part of 9) "Not to 10) Smith, 11) 108-card 12) Show regular 13) Rogue 21) Like a 22) ACLU 25) "Drowned 26) Caviar 27) Gobs 28) "Who's 29) Sissy 30) Sings 32) "No worries" 33) Tiny criticism 34) Dole's 37) Canyon 41) "Scandal" 42) "Silas 43) Pierogi, 48) Word 49) Most 52) Buccaneers' 54) Ruth's 56) Pool exercises 57) Neighbor 58) "Casablanca" 59) Evidence 60) Words 61) Hidden 62) Frick 63) "Listen 64) Musical Outbound tourists up 28% in third quarter MAT THEW FARRUGIA IN the third quarter of 2023, Malta experienced a rise in outbound tourism, reflect‑ ing a total of 173,848 tourist trips undertaken for holiday purposes, with an additional 41,342 trips dedicated to visit‑ ing friends and relatives, NSO data shows. The majority of outbound tourists fell within the 25 to 44 age group, accounting for 44.2% of the total, followed by those in the 45 to 64 age brack‑ et at 27.6%. Outbound tourism towards both European Union and non‑EU countries witnessed significant increases, rising by 26.5% and 35.1% respectively, compared to the same quar‑ ter in 2022. Italy maintained its place as the most favored destination, capturing 38.9% of the total tourist trips. The total number of nights spent by outbound tourists saw a surge, increasing by 30.5% to surpass 1.8 million nights. The majority of these nights, con‑ stituting 57.7%, were spent in rented accommodation estab‑ lishments. The average length of stay for outbound tourists stood at 7.3 nights. In terms of expenditure, the quarter saw a notable uptick, with total estimated expendi‑ ture by outbound tourists es‑ calating by 37.1% compared to the corresponding quarter in 2022. The total expenditure amounted to €241.4 million, equivalent to an average ex‑ penditure of €973 per capita. Since the beginning of the year, 595,717 outbound tourist excursions were made in total, marking an increase of 41.3% over the same time in 2022. The total number of nights spent by visitors travelling abroad increased by 38.3%, reaching 4.1 million nights. Furthermore, the total ex‑ pected expenditure made by resident visitors was €538.7 million, which represents a 50.1% increase over the report‑ ed amount for the same period in 2022. The total number of nights spent by outbound tourists saw a surge, increasing by 30.5% to surpass 1.8 million nights, NSO data shows

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