THE SKELETON
CROSSWORD – £325 in prizes
There is a £100 prize for the first correct solution drawn; nine runners-up receive £25.
Send your completed crossword to the address shown in the box below left. In the skeleton crossword, the black squares and clue numbers have to be filled in as well as the words. Four black squares and four clue numbers have been inserted to give you a start. The black squares form a symmetrical pattern; the top half matches the bottom, and the two sides correspond. You can fill in 12 more squares at once to correspond with those given.
Send to: Skeleton Crossword, PO Box 12578, Sutton Coldfield B73 9BT. The winners will be the first correct entries drawn after the closing date of noon on Friday. Please allow 30 days for prizes to arrive.
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Stealing pop, then losing it? Scrap metal past iron, oddly Large musical instrument making a great sound Maybe a buffeted lass is a plant
Man possibly misled edges away
Remark about weight exasperated leader
City opposed to a roundabout scheme, in part Common sense we used in Paris
Composer turned around beginning to recover
One without refuge turned to... (Hyphenated) ...graduates accommodating his core preference
This aviator’s outside, having to fly
Common girl given post quietly reads introduction Information held back by some great analysts? 25 Witness returning with line
caught fish
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road in a city
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1 Idiotic Incan lesson plan 2 Attendant, note, opening up 3 Material not covering yokel’s flanks
Kind of negative team with value
A patriarch makes a couple cold
‘Valley girl’ extremely tender Only one story has it half right
An equally hard variety of wood
Handsome organist trumpeter leads in
Ward off limits to Vince and Rhett after 1 April
A nymph, say, with an empty head
Box perhaps emptied around Central Park
Satisfied socialist about to stop
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