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 Poet hasn’t registered points in unwelcome report (Two words)
5 Shift first half of bird
7 Crime is the solution 10 Alternatively can be
heard in wonder
11 Remedy includes
small oath
12 Parking on thin piece
of timber
13 Article on rate review
produces drama
15 Second actor is a fake 16 Brigade hides capital 17 Precis involved having
name for implement 21 Reason iodine, nitrogen
and iron are found by river 22 Have faith in a managed
company
23 Hairpiece is a mouthful,
but not initially
24 Jokes about new groups 25 Obvious it’s not in code
26 Use a straw, taking wrong end in bathing area (Two words)
Down
1 Wager included about
French item of fashion
2 Rapper gets the bird
3 Choose from selection
4 Woman accepts a
peerage – top form 5 Golfing approach
supports attacking player 6 Bit of fish cooked for
island (Two words)
8 Ian’s composition gets tiny very soon
(Three words)
9 Resemble arrest, following
behind (Two words)
14 Marched around
the bend
17 Reporters apply an
amount of force
18 Hopeless present at home
(Two words, hyphenated) 19 Good score, for a bird
20 Small lorry has no right
to get jammed
Get Puzzling!
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