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 fourway symmetry: both top and bottom and left and right match, so you can fill in 12 more squares straight away.
Across
1 Boat in good order around new city
5 Try gins, terribly thin
9 Volume includes battle defence
10 Sturdy pet with its own clip
12 Yawning from French record
13 Church making sailor comply? Not initially
14 Hire in Brentford
15 Several might, around noon
17 Worth shuffling cast
19 Upper class shop layout
21 Trophy has finished in whitewash (Two words, hyphenated)
22 Six joining threesome left bitterness
23 Sign to dart off for some sportswear
24 Second result unavailable for farewell (Two words, hyphenated) Down
2 Love to work with universal part of seed
3 Depressed by an empty form in advance (Two words)
4 Youngster found in cellar vault
6 Well-behaved time before, honestly
7 I will fold red paper, not ready (Two words, hyphenated)
8 Increased force, worn out
11 Stop wild boar by junction
16 Came round to answer, alert to injustice
17 Time to regret royal being more authentic
18 Disregard greeting around island
20 Sneer and eat greedily
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