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 Buccaneering 4 Fine wool

9 Small enclosure for cows or sheep 10 Measure of distance in astronomy (2 words) 11 Hawaiian greeting 12 Primitive eel-like parasitic fish 14 Souring 17 Dutch painter of Girl with a Pearl Earring 18 Former Mrs Donald Trump 20 Personified 22 Become older 23 Absconded with a lover 24 Capital of Greece

DOWN

1 Tall thin tree

2 Music with a recurring theme 3 Sedating drug 5 Curtaining material 6 Inundated

7 Broad spread 8 Believing in equal rights 13 Glee

15 Marrakesh’s country 16 Cuddle

17 Declare

19 Astonish

21 Cereal used in making American whiskey