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. 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 1084, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, February 3 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on February 19 from the first correct entry drawn. Winner of Bare Bones No 1081: Mr G Charnley, of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.

Across

5 European proposal generates sentiment

7 Turning sea into land

10 Cream, to go with a pie

11 Carry out directions on part of play

12 Part of Touchstone expressing pain

13 Yanks on small copper pipe, beginning sailing event (Two words)

16 Glance through his kimono outside

17 I will be heard in the passage

18 Beer not as cold as expected

19 Children hiding desire

to return organs

20 Qualified son gets turned off

Down

1 Burn front of memo – included slander

2 Now confusing motet and anthem (Three words)

3 I mount clock differently – as an ingredient (Two words)

4 Steal a tiny bit

6 Willing to follow witches, not initially prepared to cook (Two words, hyphenated)

8 Apes took off, having succeeded, as you might say (Three words)

9 A crass broadcast merited first derision

14 Yarn involving flying geese

15 Steel production in bad conditions