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 Attack part of meal in

training area (Two words)

10 Understand lock is

engaged (Two words)

11 Building CIA operation

is obsolete

12 Starts to get upset, making

something chewed

13 Make a shorter version

of a game

15 Quietly left, crept, and

made a vow

17 Personnel reduced in

top style (Two words)

21 Touched end

pen (Two words)

25 That woman’s in the right

26 Vigour acquired with

revolutionary bread 27 Lights one gets in error

28 Sets my medical problem

in base ten (Two words)

Down

2 Stray order from a deity

3 Ancient pot initially

concealed garden pest

4 Point toboggan out in

sudden movement

5 Caught the French

politician in vice

6 Not sure when a Republican’s left a member of the family

7 Informed about

liberal jargon

8 False assortment, not

including small insect

9 Gambled on not

starting chilled 14 Feeling numb about

an animal

16 Don’t stand for a

piece of fiction

17 About sailor smashing

first vehicles

18 From the index, I learn he

had to leave home

19 A hundred and one took in performance, and they’re prickly

20 Foreign character has

time to develop hate

21 Cooks an accompaniment

for a burger

22 Connects to course

23 Article takes it to

be an old tax

24 Hopes treatment

includes vermin