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 Son wished to

change nationality

7 Fruit transported to Capri 10 Study with a

faculty head

11 Feature includes

old rope

12 That explains

about loathing

13 Fatal tune started in travel centre

(Two words)

16 Lied about a

store of food 17 Clever, removing

front side

18 Gambler is knowledgeable about uncertainty

19 Isolated ruins spread

around city

20 Suggested Sid and

Dave are involved Down

1 Sentimental daughter provides material

2 Alway in Latin

(Two words) 3 Perfectly well and appropriate, like bad weather (Three words)

4 Feature at one

end of a river

6 Saint performing

song for clinics

8 Depict red construction,

as forecast

9 Our enclosure outside

shows bravery

14 Intended to have

miserly time

15 Enquire, and we return

in a crooked way