The (optional) number in brackets indicates the number of missing black squares in the respective row or column. Usually the grid is symmetrical. Solve the clues and find out the positions of the words.

Horizontal 1 ... and Eve - Sleep - Listen! (2) 2 Destroy - Kitchen cabinet (3) 3 Strong flavour - Latin ‘is’ - Extinct bird (2) 4 Short verse - Cutlery box (2) 5 Calf-length skirt - The self (4) 6 Large area of salt water - Thrust (4) 7 Go before - Prefix meaning ‘before’ (2) 8 Sort, kind - 60s drug (inits) - Rib of a leaf (2) 9 Swimming-pool - Biblical garden (3) 10 Property document - Standard golf score - Sicilian volcano (2) Vertical A Just below soprano - Located (1) B Carpenter’s tool (3) C Composer of ‘Rule Britannia’ - Orchard fruit (1) D Drinking vessel - Beryl ..., late actress (2) E Name in court (4) F Work dough - Horse’s hoof sound (1) G Wading birds (2) H Golf stroke - Milk sac (1) J Simplicity (4) K Secret - Bobby ..., 1960s singer (2) L Make amends - Shut up (1) M Ex-Spice Girl, ... Halliwell (3) N City in Japan - Irish singer (1)

This type of puzzle is available in many different sizes, symmetries and designs.