THE SKELETON

CROSSWORD – £325 in prizes

There is a £100 prize for the first correct solution drawn; nine runners-up receive £25.

Send your completed crossword to the address shown in the box below left. In the skeleton crossword, the black squares and clue numbers have to be filled in as well as the words. Four black squares and four clue numbers have been inserted to give you a start. The black squares form a symmetrical pattern; the top half matches the bottom, and the two sides correspond. You can fill in 12 more squares at once to correspond with those given.

Send to: Skeleton Crossword, PO Box 12578, Sutton Coldfield B73 9BT. The winners will be the first correct entries drawn after the closing date of noon on Friday. Please allow 30 days for prizes to arrive.

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Smart footwear? (2 words)

The most strident oaf around does without love Cheese served with some ham, egg and beans

Look for a speaker dock Rough spot on an artist’s back

Great pie cooked with ace filling

Line in becoming British book

Remember to walk around a corner

Women going in and out for a time

Prime cut following pork oddly came last

Six approach goodhearted preserver

Absurd edict unions do away with

Bill raised with good reason Seers agreed with egghead More old paintings put up

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Low mountain with a cold peak

Fine old beast heading north

Rascal quietly ending a hustle

Failures going under see red footwear (Hyphenated) Catholic in a lake not greedy

Regret about going round a bend

Main squeeze cleared out first of all

A number under seventy somewhat like 27

Work that’s managed naked Eliot set out to deceive (2 words)

Fellow agent’s latest desire Doctor finally breaking a fever, say

An American city saints miss

Before long - around mid-morning