BARE BONES

WIN A COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS SET, AND A BRADFORD’S CROSSWORD SOLVER’S DICTIONARY

Our Bare Bones Crossword is unique because you have to complete the grid – numbers and squares – as well. We have inserted four black squares and four clue numbers to get you going. The crossword has a four-way symmetry: both top and bottom and left and right match, so you can fill in 12 more squares straight away.

Across

1 Best ever LP

4 Feline let loose on larger animals

10 Dashing and brave? About time

11 Defence group never managed to disturb

12 Stagger for part of the film

13 Sleep soundly?

14 Catch sight of European agent

15 Tom’s broken more than half

16 Shrewd about any new inclusion

17 Search in Tuscany

21 Hope inn organised a radio show (Two words, hyphenated)

22 Dope is wrong to point to incident

23 Fades, with the Spanish fuel

24 Working mere day without a cure

Down

1 Navigation aid that looks both ways

2 Goes round with note about foundation

3 Free to include a surprise attack

5 Banner includes former queen

6 Priest devised mission for muse

7 Each extremely behind the conclusion

8 Columnist in relative pain? (Two words)

9 Promise eager aunt to change

15 Sulked on a motorbike

18 Deprived of keys in city

19 Police department has to yield

20 Excellent penalty