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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Tree a nectar gatherer taps Enjoy hearing a spendthrift Really forgettable last page (2 words)
Cooking range hot as before
Fluid back in defaced drinking vessel
Poison remedy arrogant leaders ingested
A goddess finished with one inside
Returning alien books temporary accommodation Gallery opening a person left
Vagrant malign beginner ensnared
A beast one left to round off square ends
Level Parisian’s very tense still (2 words)
Farewell from radio stations?
Only two thirds of men count
God put on not holding
anger back
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subsequently
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1 Long delay about to irritate 2 Popular socialist should post (2 words)
Make money from a follower Girl helping a resident drying up
Layer cake loses its filling thus
Chill out after Reg and Eric back off
Leading man gets a rubbish part
Wolf tail and other things hard to get
Fixture still attached to rampart’s rear
Beams supporting eight closer boards
Quiet egghead follows an idiot out
Lookers traversed middle of course
Lush borders gardener’s last to arrange 3 4
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