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 Less beautiful

5 Sudden bout (of activity)

8 Yielded

9 Elegant, stylish

10 Text entry mistake 11 Recognise as known 12 US state, capital

Topeka

13 Yellow caged bird 15 Delightful

18 Manipulated

19 Concoction

20 Obtained by unfair

means 21 Cried like an ass

22 Make thinner or more

liquid

DOWN

2 Person who manipulates constituency boundaries unfairly

3 At home

4 North American

mountains

5 Soft buttery confection

6 Of a film, in its original

version

7 Additional supply or

contribution

13 Tricked

14 Non-partisan

16 Noisy, disorderly

17 Exude body fluid