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In this skeleton crossword, the black squares and clue numbers have to be filled in as well as the solutions, which are of the general knowledge type. The black squares form a symmetrical pattern with the top matching the bottom and the two sides corresponding, so you can already fill in 12 more black squares to correspond with those given. This link will allow you to print a pdf of the crossword but, owing to technicalities, I am afraid it will give you the complete grid with the black squares and numbers in place.

Across

1 Resembling swine (7)

4 A sower’s basket (7)

9  Slender short-haired blue-eyed felines having pale coats, dark ears, paws face and tail tip (7,4)

11  French state (4)

12  Inspiring a feeling of fear; strange and frightening (4)

13  A German member of Adolf Hitler’s political party (4)

14  Formerly the basic unit of money in Italy (4)

15  Pike or luce (3)

16  A set of data arranged in rows and columns (5)

17  A big awkward girl (3)

18  Cut into cubes (4)

20  A term used by criers of courts to secure silence before making a proclamation, usually repeated three times (4)

22  Large elliptical brightly coloured deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean (4)

23  Bill of fare (4)

24  Controller who holds the Trinity House certificate (6-5)

25  Soy bean harvested when green and eaten as a vegetable (7)

26  Related to the part farthest from the outside (7)

Down

1  Ruffed reddish gamebird (two words) (5,6 

2  A Spanish bagpipe (5)

3  Obsolete durable woollen cloth (11)

5  Kind of old incubator (11)

6  One excessively fond, or weak in love (5)

7  Disposed to worship or appearing to worship (11)

8  Spicy cold marinade of olive oil, vinegar and herbs used to season cooked meat and fish (9)

9  Small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America (4,3)

10  A tool for flattening joins in metal etc. (7)

19  The seamless white cotton gown worn by pilgrims to Mecca (5)

21  Give expression to, in a stage or movie role (5)

Here is last week’s solution:

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