SKELETON

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

ACROSS

1 Offer hospitality to 4 Allow

9 Chum 10 Former name for St Petersburg 11 Brake blocks 12 Synthetic fabric 14 Having dealings (with)

17 Feminine reflexive pronoun 18 More cold

20 Pot plant known as Busy

Lizzie

22 Winter virus

23 ___ summer, warm weather

in autumn

24 Afraid

DOWN

1 Force upon

2 Swedish car make

3 Device for viewing distant

objects

5 Convent member

6 Cheap purchase

7 ___ Redmayne,

Oscar-winning actor

8 Discontented

13 Not contained or included

within

15 Just got (through)

16 Put forward an opposing view 17 Caribbean nation, capital

Port-au-Prince

19 Deduce

21 Twinings, eg