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12 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 24 JULY 2024 NEWS F Solution to last week's crossword The answers to today's crossword will be published in next week's Midweek edition Weather Fine but locally partly to rather cloudy and with sea fog patches Visibility Good locally moderate or poor in fog Wind West to Northwest force 3 or 4, gradually becoming variable force 2 or 3 by late morning TOMORROW Crossword WEATHER SUNNY 36 0 / 25 0 TODAY SUNNY 35 / 25 0 FEELS LIKE 38 FEELS LIKE 38 0 ACROSS 1) Fighting tools 6) Wiretapper's device 9) Confiscate 14) Plato's marketplace 15) Olympics monogram 16) "___ of God" (1985 movie) 17) Prepare for dry dock 18) Hilo welcome gift 19) More than dislikes 20) Thing about to detonate 23) Genealogy symbol 24) TV scan line pattern 25) Pi follower 28) "Is it soup ___ ?" 29) Bard's "above" 30) Did some wishful thinking 32) TV studio sign 34) Attachment to "plane" or "smith" 35) Was perfect on the mound 41) Musical composition evoking rural life (var.) 42) Chop-chop, to Chaucer 43) Lowers in rank 47) Wall-climbing greenery 48) Beaver's handiwork 51) Psychic power 52) One of Saturn's moons 54) Trigonometric ratio 55) Was rude, in a way 58) Make amends 60) Tokyo of old 61) Marks from a flogging 62) ___ Carlo 63) ATM digits 64) Say 65) Handy things that go around the world? 66) "Affirmative" 67) "Austin Powers" star DOWN 1) Like a recall candidate 2) Give a cold shoulder to 3) Frozen dessert 4) Cleveland Indians' nick- name 5) Certain cooking herb 6) Balkan republic 7) Manual consultants 8) Merriment 9) African desert 10) Old-fashioned exclama- tion 11) The Web 12) Center of Arizona? 13) Silly start? 21) Be fearful of 22) Previously named 26) Roll call call 27) Landfill problem 29) "Out of many, ___ " (e pluribus unum) 31) Give a "PG" to 32) Nobel Peace Prize place 33) Retrovirus component 35) Sandcastle's undoing 36) Exalting poems 37) Orchestral piece 38) Points of view 39) Port in a storm 40) Frost-covered 44) What good things come in? 45) Sushi fare 46) Droopy-eyed 48) Prepare pupils for an exam? 49) It's over a buck 50) Multiple misters (abbr.) 53) Young Munster 54) Full of beef fat 56) "Golden rule" word 57) Like one third of a triath- lon 58) Adams of Hollywood 59) Word before "little," "late" or "much" THE Malta Youth Orchestra within the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra will participate in an international fes- tival for youth orchestras. This "Festi- val Orchestre Giovanili" is an annual international event held in Florence and the surrounding cities in Italy. This year's festival has been ongo- ing since June 23rd and will end on August 5th. Youth orchestras from 13 countries around the world will participate, and the Malta Youth Orchestra will be the largest one with 54 musicians. The Maltese orchestra will per- form in two concerts under the ba- ton of Michael Laus. The first concert will take place on at Terme Tettuccio, Montecati- ni, while the second concert will be held in Piazza della Signoria in the centre of Florence. Besides internationally known music, the local orchestra will also perform pieces by Maltese compos- ers. In the first concert, Elegy by Stephen-Joseph Psaila will be per- formed, while in the second concert, the youth orchestra will execute Sbuħija by the late Joseph Sammut. This is the first time that the Mal- tese Youth Orchestra will perform abroad. Malta Youth Orchestra in international festival