SKELETON

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

ACROSS

1 Sebastopol’s peninsula

5 Joker

8 Floating ice mass 9 Completeness

10 Person overconcerned with precision

11 Nut variety 12 Improvised jazz melody

14 Female undergarment

15 Inland sea in central Asia

16 Projecting rim

18 Blush, go red

20 Don ___, Mozart opera

22 Sedate

23 Charm

24 Belonging to the present

DOWN

2 Actress Ms Witherspoon

3 Person travelling to settle in a

new country

4 Able to be warded off

5 Write down briefly

6 Casually play a guitar

7 Baltic country north of Latvia

11 Complete absence of law or

government

13 Element found in lime and

chalk

15 Referred indirectly

17 Marine

19 More elevated

21 Fish trap