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 Name details,

if unknown

7 Split decor, unusually,

around four

10 Thus behold a

lead break

11 Heard a note

from a singer

12 Artist pursues another in skirt (Two words, hyphenated) 13 Steal shroud and become a nun (Three words)

16 Graduate with

afterthought – charts 17 Motorist has no right

to be an athlete

18 Wary about

being wrong

19 Relaxes in breeze as

sun moves round

20 Novel in genuine

renovation

Down

1 Article in favour of

new protective gear

2 Pupil’s trendy

award

3 Synchronised location

with daughter

4 Contempt for

small crop 6 Stupid hate somehow

dwindled outside

8 River seen flowing backwards (Two words)

9 Church finds unlimited love in any fish

14 Fellow isn’t

commonly vague

15 Wonderful fireplace,

by the sound of it