BARE BONES
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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 Minimal look over toy, missing nothing
4 Sad about including party member in impromptu remarks (Two words, hyphenated)
9 Old rope, for an artist
12 Firm must adapt European outfit
14 Time of underachievement
15 Artist and professor in their element
16 Turn pets out, distressed
17 Slow mover is more decorative after grooming head
18 Variation of Elgar is majestic
20 Strange, losing
American trinket
22 Scared to include a personal vehicle
23 Money gets half of this dimension
25 Support conclusion on rose arrangement
27 Stick notice in this place
28 Sounding bored, without first finding shade
Down
2 Youngster, caught, concealed lilac top inside
3 Starts to talk of exponential digit
5 Couple of the French often start
6 Depressed by singular style of music
7 Surplus bones in exotic dish (Two words)
8 Does often change when decorated
10 Went fishing – time started to be involved
11 Concerning equal opportunity for revenge
12 Worry, having left one key – that’s a bore
13 Obtained in spring day
19 Concurred, taking front off vice
21 Engineers managed to get shown again
24 Sailor’s aim – lose second half
26 Won over for the present
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