Blankout

A crossword you construct yourself, adding the answers and the blanks as you go. The clues are in sets of one, two, three or four, guiding you to one, two, three or four words in each line (across) or column (down) indicated at the beginning of each set of clues. Each complete word has a blank at its beginning and end (unless it’s at the edge of the grid). Blanks are arranged symmetrically. To help you, we’ve given you a start with the answer to one clue on Line 10 – ‘Stocking fabric’ – which yields the word ‘Nylon’. This must sit in the centre of the line to preserve the symmetry.

across

2 Not willing to pardon

4 Without purpose; Pastoral

6 Make a detailed list of; Relations

between a husband and wife

8 Discover the composition of;

Relating to weddings

10 Forehead; Stocking fabric; Play

music for money on the street

12 Support for a billiard cue; Artificial

silk; Flaccid

14 Japanese craft of making shapes

with paper; Capricious

16 Betrayal of one’s nation; Pickled

herring fillet

18 Caprice; Miscellaneous

20 Faithfully, ceremoniously

down

B Knob on a radio; Oversight, blunder

C Stitch that sews a wound together;

Make urgent appeal

D Established rule; Label

E Feeling of kinship; Bring or

come together

G Without charge; Opponent; Strange, foreign; System of exercises and meditation

H Secular

I Row, level; Juicy tropical fruit; Bid;

Frozen atmospheric flakes

K Minor runway; Indolence, sloth

L Ice-cream container; Appendage

M Self-obsessed person; Sufferer

for a cause

N Hoard; Saying, slogan