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

1 Politicians work

4 Sleep as site is

being redeveloped

10 Key worker first

hid remote

11 City food, without

hesitation

12 Give out the

wrong time

13 Look to find rates have

been reviewed

14 Implement used in

daze, possibly

15 Share left inside for sect 16 In accordance with praise – worried without one (Two words) 17 First man to make

a barrier

21 Robot in terrible

rain – odd

22 Say Tom is spreading

self-importance

23 Voicing a proverb

24 Manage to create

party (Two words) Down

1 Register a gatehouse

2 Ballad is yet performed for French celebration (Two words)

3 Turn headwear

round, in a state

5 Current doctor,

holding a foot 6 Good counsel concerning acoustics (Two words)

7 Row of similar guests

8 Team follows condition

across the Atlantic

9 Clever, looked observant (Two words, hyphenated)

15 Stupid car crashed

against ship

18 Frenchmen have a personal problem – dance

19 Prisoner has right

to some food

20 Rubbish on

a schedule