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