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maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017 23 Sport Answers to the MaltaToday crossword will be published next Wednesday WEATHER: Fine VISIBILITY: Good WIND: Northwest force 3 locally force 4 backing for some time to West Northwest. Overnight becoming variable force 2 to 3. SEA: Moderate becoming slight SWELL: Low Northwest becoming negligible 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. PARTLY CLOUDY 24 º C / 14 º C UV INDEX: 2 Today's Weather Chess Sudoku Pursuits Across 1. Concerned with electricity (10) 8. Enthusiastic (5) 9. Approaching death (5) 10. Abominable snowman (4) 12. Compartment for safekeeping (6) 14. Lincolnshire town (6) 17. Make beer or ale (4) 21. Cured pig meat (5) 22. Excursions (5) 23. Area of South London (10) Down 2. Illumination (5) 3. Remedy (4) 4. Cowboy display (5) 5. Young bird (5) 6. Pilsner (5) 7. Extremely (4) 11. Annoy (3) 13. Young bear (3) 14. Meat and vegetables on a skewer (5) 15. One who races (5) 16. Musical instrument (5) 18. Awake (5) 19. Learned (4) 20. Collar fastener (4) Bxc4+ Ke7 Nf5# BOXING Corito wins fight on points The Aria complex, San Gwan, last week hosted the re-match between Malta's Heavyweight champion Billy Corito and UK challenger Jody Meikle WILFRED SULTANA THE fight was entertaining which saw the boxers going through 10 rounds of 3 min- utes each with points given to whom gets the most accurate punches where Billy won every round. Last year, the two boxers had their first fight in the UK. The fight, sanctioned by the Malta Box- ing Association, was organised by Chavez Boxing Promotions under the guidance of promoter Charles Muscat with the sup- port of helping hand Lianne Corito. John Cauchi from Australia was the referee in charge of the fight. AXL Affiliates were the main sponsors of this night of boxing which included a num- ber of other exciting minor encounters.