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 Field is home next to harbour

5 Pattern is laced in a new way

7 Observes stone being thrown

10 Silver on a stove

11 Foolish, putting your head under ledge

12 Bravo! Guest has style

13 Victory during a gale’s generated recovery

15 Managed to get one in bad conditions

16 Let it stand a new test

17 Garden item for lazy person

21 Travelling on her river

22 Wear down queen with poem

23 Speciality with spies (Initials)

24 Stiff sentence, hiding arguments

25 Judges seem upset, after note

26 Read its unexpected outbursts

Down

1 Rewards, including large dramas

2 Doctor breaking law in slow speech

3 City making old graduate laugh

4 Scoundrel often encountered in deck

5 Second World War soldier to abandon traitor (Two words)

6 Ring one aristocrat and cancel (Three words)

8 About to get work following drunken circus act

9 Unable to be tracked when perfume has run out

14 Woman left sofa in vehicle

17 Left direction to a minimum

18 Cruel sort of complaint

19 Imposing amount of money

20 Rushes to get some instruments