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 Try to gratify, like a marksman? (Three words)
9 Audibly given a punishment for discovery
10 Create prose to sound correct
11 Show encouragement around circuit
12 Source of pain one doesn’t stand for
13 My clues are displayed in cultural centres
14 Arranges party and manages (Two words)
17 Attack a sailor in report
21 Young woman at a celebration
22 Meal doesn’t include first part of shoe
23 Birds found in the museum
24 Slight baker sadly showing signs of slowing down (Two words)
Down
2 Decrepit, rare, insipid construction (Two words)
3 Building a pickup van
4 Container is lacking colour, we hear
5 Lamentation from city housing for example
6 Creates confusion with fellow spy (Two words)
7 Flames in sack
8 Distant, medium smallholding
15 Man of balance
16 Immerse with last of water when incapable
18 Show indifference to an outer garment
19 Hooligan gets left out
20 Old friend put on a stone
Get Puzzling!
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