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, so that every blue square has at least one other corresponding blue square.

ACROSS

7 Stout and firm, trusty 9 Shackles 10 Examination of accounts 11 Seethe 12 Diddle 13 Achieved by physical effort or pressure

16 In title only 17 Globe 19 Extend, like elastic 21 Burnt remains 22 Abandon 23 Make clear, settle

DOWN

1 (Look) disapprovingly 2 Lively Spanish dance 3 Make (clothing) with needles and wool 4 Courteousness 5 Otter’s den 6 Official escorting people to seats

8 Sewing goods retailer 13 National border 14 Get-out clause 15 Embarrassed 18 Hymn

20 Lion’s sound 21 Besides