BARE BONES

Complete the grid – numbers and squares. We have inserted four black squares and four clue numbers to get you going. The crossword has a four-way symmetry: both top and bottom and left and right match, so you can fill in 12 more squares straight away. Answer next week.

Across

5 Any curve inside brings disorder 8 Building threat wasted energy 11 Appealing to remove last injury 12 Woman sculpted tin first, to be honest (Two words)

13 Claim a tenant concealed a rug 14 Tolerate a stream 15 Look happy, having sprinted initial distance

20 Sign of whole ownership

21 Methodical, about to get swapped for article that’s pointed 22 Ruin found in Denmark

23 Hold first murderer, not free, inside 24 Hailed a large duet’s performance outside

Down

1 Contrive to make a door

2 Instrument is mostly artificial

3 Second salesman is plump

4 Is better than pulses

6 Fear not – no problem for two, say 7 Oil patch spread around a sausage 9 Help a mere adjustment that’s fleeting

10 Deadline for when clock needs winding (Two words)

16 Crowd makes fellow bolt

17 Earlier, name unknown pain 18 Confrontation about whip

19 Puritan finds parking discourteous