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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 9 DECEMBER 2015 23 Sport Answers to the MaltaToday crossword will be published next Wednesday WEATHER: Partly cloudy becoming partly to rather cloudy with some isolated showers for some time VISIBILITY: Good except in some showers WIND: Variable force 2 to 3 becoming mainly North to Northwest SEA: Slight SWELL: Negligible Sea Temp.: 19 °C A B C D E F G H 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 White to play and mate in four moves A B C D E F G H 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Last week's solution Sudoku rules are extremely easy: Fill all empty squares so that the numbers 1 to 9 appear once in each row, column and 9x9 box. CHANCE OF SHOWERS 19 º C / 11 º C UV INDEX: 2 Today's Weather Chess Sudoku Pursuits Across 1. Courtyard 6. Sense of how matters really are 8. Storm 9. Very cold 10. Untie 12. Observed 15. Possess 16. United States 18. Improve in appearance 19. Disgrace Down 1. Occurring after one's death 2. Streetcar 3. Command 4. Wagons 5. God-like 7. Dressing 11. Pertaining to the teeth 13. Ballroom dance 14. Sturdy twilled trousers 17. Notion Qh8+ Ke7 Qxg7+ Ke8 Re5+ Re7 Qxe7# ... Kd8 Qh8# (Qf8#, Qg8#) BOXING Haye tells Fury 'just shut up' DAVID Haye has accused world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury of heaping shame on his sport over his controversial comments since his upset victory over Wladimir Klitschko in Germany. Speaking on BBC Radio Two's Jeremy Vine programme on Mon- day, Fury refused to back down on his claims that the world would end once homosexuality, abortion and paedophilia were legalised. Former champion Haye returns to the ring after a three-and-a-half year absence in January when he faces Australian fighter Mark de Mori in London, and is hoping to move into the frame for a shot at Fury. Haye told the Guardian: "I thought I was the controversial bad guy, but Fury has got to stop saying that. "Come on man - just shut up. It's stupid and wrong and it's giving boxing another negative headline. Stop it. Just stick to singing after the fight - that's good." Almost 80,000 people have signed a petition calling on the BBC to remove Fury from its 12- strong shortlist for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. Fury had previously said that fel- low nominee and world heptath- lon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill "looks good in a dress" and added: "I know for a million per cent I've got more personality in the end of my little finger than the whole of the nomination group put to- gether." Fury attempted to clarify his comments to Vine, insisting he did not equate homosexuality to paedophilia, but repeating the controversial views he originally made in a pre-fight interview with Mail on Sunday. Fury told Vine: "Homosexuality, abortion and paedophilia - those three things need to be accom- plished before the world finishes - that's what the Bible tells me. "It may take a while before those three things can be accomplished, but make no mistake, those three things must be accomplished be- fore the world finishes, if it takes 1,000 years, 10,000 years or two days - those three things need to be accomplished. "That isn't my opinion, I didn't say that, that's what the Bible tells me, and that's all I said. I didn't say I had a problem with homosexu- als or abortionists or paedophiles, I didn't say I'm with it or against it, I just stated what I am taught through my scriptures." David Haye