Skeleton is a standard Crossword Puzzle, with a difference. In the grid you will only find some of the coordinates and some of the black squares.

Horizontal 2 Domestic canine, 6 Foot digit, 8 Tin, 10 Underneath, 11 Ancestry, 12 Drink in small amounts, 13 Rodent, 15 Increase one‘s stake, 16 Wooded valley, 17 Tapered block of wood, 19 Mirror, 22 Sailing event, 25 Set, fit, 27 Lazy, 29 Money owed, 31 Change the colour, 32 Rocks in Scotch?, 34 Base, 36 Down-to-earth person, 37 Conclude, 38 Sight organ, 39 “Little ...”, 1960s songstress Vertical 1 Naval, 3 Kimono sash, 4 Artistic category, 5 Type of insect, 6 Poor in quality, 7 Specialist, 8 Type of longleaved lettuce, 9 Dram, 14 Before now, 15 Leatherworking tool, 16 Crumple on a car, 18 Excavate, 20 Cost of a travel on a bus, 21 Past periods, 22 Decrease, 23 Social insect, 24 Small, 26 Pour wine into another bottle, 28 Tenancy contract, 30 Without clothes, 32 Rage, 33 Antiquity, 35 US TV company (1,1,1)

There are 9 variants:

• Clues (see above)
• Scrambled
• The letters of a word without N - Z
• The letters of a word without A - M
• Trice as Nice
• Fill-In (list of words)
• The letters of a word without vowels
• The letters of a word without consonants
• Calculated (this variant gives letters a value - A=1 ... Z=26 -, and the clues are the result of multiplication of all values of the word) - see Logicals
   

Skeletons are more difficult when the horizontal and vertical clues are mixed together in the list.

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