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11-year-old Maltese kart driver Benjamin Westwood this weekend won the international ROK Winter Trophy. The ROK Winter Trophy is highly prestigious, particularly considering the intense competition from drivers predominantly based and racing in Italy, the global karting hub. This event serves as a crucial platform for young talents to be scouted for future motorsports opportunities, including F1. Westwood is a team driver for the GP racing team in Italy and is managed by Minardi. In Malta, he races for KPL racing team, having joined them at the age of 8. 16 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 28 FEBRUARY 2024 NEWS ACROSS 1) Polar cover 7) SeaWorld favorite, once 11) Great, to a Beatles' fan 14) Flourish 15) Word following a hand- shake 16) Fury 17) Vast part of the North Atlan- tic 19) Farmer's field 20) Dresses 21) Restaurant reading 22) Iraqi port 25) Inheritance reducer 27) Dada pioneer 28) Turned chicken 30) Decompose 31) Belle man? 33) Come unglued 36) Tibet's capital city 40) "Thusly, we have spoken" 43) Cook Maryland crabs 44) "Buona ___" (Italian greet- ing) 45) Lowers, as a light 46) Zero, in soccer 48) Drunkard 50) Agile deer 51) Remarkable thing to see 56) Emit, as sweat 58) Plushness or opulence 59) Cab driver? 61) Rainbow shape 62) "Please pardon me" 66) Center of gravity? 67) "Other" category (Abbr.) 68) Wolflike 69) Sushi roll fish 70) Scout uniform item 71) Hypothetical evolutionary link DOWN 1) Impersonal pronoun 2) When repeated, a Latin dance 3) Require an erasure 4) "It's a girl!" handout 5) Chat room icon 6) Bothersome type 7) Smells to avoid 8) Change back to zeros 9) To whom Brutus got his point across 10) Pie-mode link 11) ___ mignon 12) Pro basketball building 13) Plural of 31-Across 18) "Burnt" pigments 21) Modus operandi 22) Alcoholic cakes 23) "There___ enough hours in the day" 24) Small shovel 26) Bridge-crossing fee 29) Beast associated with Balaam 32) Income from wealth 34) "Nay" offsetter 35) Astronomical distances 37) Burning 38) Really fat Japanese athletes 39) Cash or one's home, e.g. 41) Skip past 42) "7 Faces of Dr.___" (1964 movie) 47) One of the Baltics 49) Gets ready for a golf drive 51) Frederic Douglass was one 52) Food prepared by blending 53) Do extremely well 54) Leafy salad green 55) Addams family butler 57) Feel around blindly 60) Caffeine source 62) Letters on an ambulance 63) Outer edge 64) Cell "messenger" 65) Japanese money F Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Fine with high clouds becoming rather cloudy by evening Visibility Good Wind West Southwest force 3 to 4 locally force 4 to 5 becoming force 4 to 5 locally force 5 to 6. TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER WINDY 18 0 / 10 0 TODAY WINDY 17 / 11 0 FEELS LIKE 18 0 FEELS LIKE 18 0 11- year-old Maltese kart driver wins ROK Winter Trophy