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16 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 10 JANUARY 2024 NEWS ACROSS 1) Quite some distance off 5) Type of cheese 10) Clothes-info locales 14) Longest arm bone 15) Man of fables 16) Son of Isaac and Rebekah 17) Punjab princess 18) Electric-car company 19) Abounding 20) Three things after "space" 23) Loud, in music 24) Food that never decays 25) Historical records 28) Speak indistinctly 30) Naval commando 31) "The 12 Days of Christ- mas" musician 33) African antelope 36) Two things after "space" 40) Bothered (with "at") 41) Slightly wet 42) Border order? 43) Give a Bronx cheer 44) Substance found in flour 46) Evil nation in the Bible 49) Pale 51) Three things after "space" 57) Honky-___ piano 58) "Four Quartets" poet T.S. 59) Deli condiment 60) Flip-a-coin test answer 61) Distribute proportionate- ly 62) Affirm positively 63) "Don't overdo it" 64) Borgnine's "From Here to Eternity" role 65) Bird's home DOWN 1) Mystic enveloper 2) Patriotic symbol 3) "Interview With the Vam- pire" author Rice 4) Drops from above 5) Goatlike creatures of myth 6) Least big 7) Bring forth 8) Arias, e.g. 9) Petty clash 10) Product of a good horror film 11) Like much of the world's population 12) Foot-in-mouth incident 13) Full of beef fat 21) Army rank (Abbr.) 22) Make butter 25) On a yacht, perhaps 26) Teller's call 27) Base of the neck 28) Barbecue rod 29) Zodiac lion 31) Two fives, for one 32) Neutral possessive 33) Ganges access 34) "Good going!" 35) Very familiar with 37) End of the Greek alpha- bet 38) Something fishy 39) One who falls for a star? 43) Professional horse rider 44) Depressed urban area 45) Large pasture 46) Not glossy, as a photo 47) Public square, in ancient Greece 48) Biological subdivision 49) Cocked, as a hat 50) Chases away, as a fly 52) Severely hearing-im- paired 53) Jazz legend Fitzgerald 54) Wasps' nest location 55) Some loaves of bread 56) Alphabetize, e.g. 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 with some isolated showers at first becoming cloudy with showers locally thundery and gusty at times Visibility Good locally moderate to poor in showers TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER ISOLATED SHOWERS 22 0 / 16 0 TODAY ISOLATED SHOWERS 20 / 15 0 FEELS LIKE 20 0 FEELS LIKE 22 0 INJURIES as a result of traffic accidents rose slightly in 2023 when compared to the previ- ous year, reaching 1,389, data tabled in parliament shows. On Monday, some figures on 2023's traffic accident injuries came to light, after PN spokesperson for home affairs Joe Giglio asked his government counterpart By- ron Camilleri to provide the number of total injuries and how many of them were fatal. Camilleri said that during 2023, 1,389 injuries were re- ported after traffic accidents, as Maltese roads claimed 14 lives in the same period. This represents a slight in- crease when compared to 2022, as 1,341 injuries were reported. Last year also saw a sharp downturn in fatalities, following the deadliest year in terms of road fatalities. Maltese roads are becom- ing increasingly crowded, with statistics from last July showing that Malta has more than 317,000 passenger cars on its road. The issue of who is driving on Maltese roads also came into the limelight in 2023, following a driving test scan- dal that implicated ex-trans- port minister Ian Borg. Malta now has a fresh transport minister following Robert Abela's first reshuffle of the legislature, as Chris Bonett faces a mammoth's task when it comes to easing traffic congestion across the island. Among his objectives, Bonett will aim to imple- ment government's plan to ensure that certain services that require road access do not start before 9:00am to ease traffic congestion. This measure was first mentioned by government in 2022, but remains to be implemented. Number of traffic accident-related injuries rose slightly in 2023 One of the fatal crashes claimed the life of a 17-year-old girl last May