SKELETON

Have double the fun with this puzzle: you’ve got to fill in the answers and the blue squares! We’ve given you the bare bones to start and it will help you to know that the blue squares in the finished grid form a symmetrical pattern.

ACROSS

1 Person living overseas

4 Critic

8 ___ off, recited rapidly

9 Theatre entrance hall

10 Easy adaptability

12 British peers

14 Gaining insight into

18 Follow as a result

19 Dry up, wither

21 Capital city of Bulgaria

23 Engrossed

24 Sound muffler

25 Horseman

DOWN

1 Finland’s continent

2 Ungenerous attitude

3 Bird of prey’s sharp claw

4 Goat’s young

5 Oddball, weird

6 Link to a solution

7 Least common

11 Units of length

13 Modernised, done up

15 Confront 16 Scottish monster’s nickname

17 Aircraft without an engine

20 Amazon or Nile, eg

22 Distant, remote

23 Set in working order