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

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