SKELETON

Have double the fun with this puzzle: you’ve got to fill in the answers and the blue squares! We’ve given you the bare bones to start and it will help you to know that the blue squares in the finished grid form a symmetrical pattern.

ACROSS

1 Metal cutter

8 One who does not believe in a god 9 Theft 10 Thrashing

11 Draw in air through the nose 14 Sewing needle’s hole

18 Debilitated 19 Pensive

20 Globe

25 Make an estimate of 28 Meat-filled pasta squares

29 Lash

30 Craft of creative paper-folding

31 Breathing passage

DOWN

1 High places 2 Welsh breed of dog 3 Quiver of arrows 4 Ambush, intercept 5 Rough hut

6 Pay a call 7 Theatre platform 12 Metal pin

13 Just, equitable 14 Personal identity 15 Go back, tidally 16 Bland soya-based foodstuff

17 Betting prices 21 Dried fruit used extensively in cookery 22 Witch’s flying-stick 23 Elude

24 Relating to a central point

25 Brilliance 26 Oversight, slip-up 27 Form words from letters