Asymmetric skeleton

Here’s a skeleton to put you to the test! It’s just like a normal skeleton except that the pattern of the black squares is NOT SYMMETRICAL.

Across

1 - - - castle, beach model (4) 5 Doubter (7)

10 Spirit in Shakespeare’s play The Tempest (5) 12 Sound made by a cow (3) 14 Meadow (3)

15 Prince Albert, eg (9)

16 - - - Get Your Gun, Irving Berlin musical (5) 17 Perfect (5)

18 Sketch (7)

19 Dressed (4)

21 Lighting in signs (4) 22 Coldness (5)

23 Highest playing card (3) 26 Church roof features (8) 29 Can - - -, gadget used to get into a tin (6) 31 Unfasten (4)

32 Beatle Paul’s nickname (5) 33 Fitting (3)

34 Bog fuel (4)

35 North Sea platform (3, 3) 38 Spot filling (3)

40 William - - -, 18th Century painter and engraver (7) 41 Sequence (6)

44 Not precise (7) 45 Mysterious (9)

46 Mock - - - Week, TV’s comedy panel show (3) 47 Representative of an era (6) 48 Sir Michael - - -, star of The Italian Job (5) 52 School of Buddhism (3) 53 Forearm bone (4) 54 Shines, glitters (8)

Down

1 Funds stored away for future use (7)

2 Dry (4)

3 Pleasant (4)

4 Building not joined to another on either side (8) 5 Instrumental piece of music (6)

6 Barbara Dickson’s singing partner on the 1985 no 1 hit I Know Him So Well (6, 5) 7 Pasta tubes (5)

8 Dance in duple time (5) 9 Professional cook (4) 11 Boiled sweet on a stick (8) 12 Independent trader who distributes goods from producer to consumer (9)

13 Paddle (3)

20 Everyone (3)

22 Roman soldier (9) 24 1985 Ron Howard film about eternal youth (6) 25 Art Garfunkel hit featured in Watership Down (6, 4) 27 Old coin (8)

28 Posed for an artist (3) 30 Tell a story (7)

36 Slack (3)

37 Skin irritation (4) 39 Autograph (4)

40 Glitch (6)

41 Grab (5)

42 Give off (4)

43 Baglike part in a plant or animal (3)

49 - - - carte, menu with each dish priced separately (1, 2) 50 Public house (3) 51 Henpeck (3)