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12 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 11 SEPTEMBER 2024 NEWS KURT SANSONE ksansone@mediatoday.com.mt 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) ___ mater 5) Academy newbie 10) Pet with green "hair" 14) Having little fat 15) Mary of "The Maltese Falcon" 16) Brinker with the skates 17) Mormons 20) Emulate a skunk 21) Express disapproval of 22) Have a sudden inspira- tion? 25) "Silas Marner" novelist George 26) Public speakers' places 30) Line from the heart 33) "I knew it all ___ !" 34) Cuckoo clock feature 35) T, in Athens 38) Some handy homeown- ers 42) "Mayday!" cousin 43) Congers 44) "Sesame Street" resident 45) Broccoli bit 47) Accomplishments 48) Between ocean shores 51) Sitcom legend Dick Van ___ 53) Clinton daughter 56) Causing the willies 60) How many bills are paid 64) "What ___ can I say?" 65) Carpenter or lumberjack, at times 66) Adolescent's outbreak 67) Rank, in tournaments 68) Square-jawed detective 69) Respectful address to a lady DOWN 1) "___ together, now!" 2) Grassy grazing expanses 3) Damon of Hollywood 4) Not behind? 5) Coat for frigid weather 6) Mind-altering drug 7) Approx. for a landing 8) Harrelson on "Cheers" 9) Scottish Gaelic 10) Like sweater weather 11) Vietnam's capital 12) Preface, essentially 13) Selling point 14) Interlock, as gears 15) Impersonator 20) More melancholy 21) Emulated a hungry lion 26) Dog's "dogs" 27) Margarine substitute 28) Buck fanciers 29) Squid squirt 31) Cuddly warm 32) Be wrong 35) Telephone sound 36) Desert descriptor 37) Swiss Army knife's array 39) Keanu in "The Matrix" 40) Tum in coupons 41) Fury 45) Like a billiard table and some hats 46) Eyelid unit 48) Ultimate heights 49) Oar fulcrum 50) Reasoning ability 52) Presidential contender of 2004 54) Eden-to-Nod direction 55) Way, way off 57) Travel 58) Andean civilization 59) Italy's volcano 61) "Up, up and away" de- funct airline 62) Common Market inits., once 63) Alter a skirt, in a way FIVE divers were rescued from rough seas off Wied iż-Żurrieq in an operation that involved an army helicopter and rhibs from the Civil Protection. The AFM and CPD said in a joint statement that Red Cross volunteers alerted them that five divers were in difficulty after they being dragged out to sea by strong currents and large waves. The operation was carried out in difficult con- ditions as a result of the strong winds hitting the Maltese islands. The AFM immediately dispatched a helicop- ter and the vessel Melita 2 to the area while the CPD sent fire engines with a rhib to assist. One of the divers was winched out of the sea by the helicopter and disembarked at Wied iż-Żurrieq from where he was taken to Mater Dei Hospital by ambulance. The other four boarded a CPD rhib and dis- embarked safe and sound at Marsaxlokk. Divers rescued from rough seas at Wied iz-Zurrieq Army helicopter and CPD rhib involved in operation to rescue five divers who found themselves in difficulty at Wied iż-Żurrieq An army helicopter circling above the divers who had to be rescued from rough seas and strong undercurrents (Photo: AFM)