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.

There is a prize of a Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus set, and a Bradford’s Crossword Solver’s Dictionary. Send your solution to: Bare Bones Puzzle No 1019, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, October 29 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on November 14 from the first correct entry drawn. Winner of Bare Bones No 1016: James Smith, of Jedburgh, Scottish Borders.

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Across

1 Chat with drink is a hit (Two words) 9 Guide finding daughter behind meadow

10 Quiet pixie getting some storage 11 Transaction rate, note, is missing 12 Transgression of dodgy dealer 13 Tolerate a food processor

14 Prisoner type is a companion 17 Without vagueness, that’s right

21 Cover on old pool 22 Long time before noon 23 Panoramic one holds an image 24 Bones – important means of access (Two words)

Down

2 Talk and reserve list of contacts

(Two words) 3 Fundamental language, for a computer

4 Bound to change diet

5 Object after fun turned inappropriate

6 Mechanic has broken dispenser (Two words) 7 Bishop returning payment for meat 8 Endlessly obstruct some countries 15 Void as depicted by poet

16 Fellow finds a student majestic

18 Element returning not one kiss 19 Plunder lake – too bad

20 Loud performance, it’s true