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 News is terrible

about relative

4 Way out beginning

with small tragedy

10 Exaggerate about

part of the play

11 Student left, a

salaried worker

12 The kind to use a

machine to write

13 Happy Londoners surround supporter of power

14 Due to remove facade

from part of house

15 Doesn’t stand for

false statements 16 Finally doesn’t finish

a worldly book

17 Dog left to have a look 21 Fuel finds a way in

by the sea

22 Rebuke concerning

evidence

23 Joining without

new affection

24 Distributed casserole around centre of Perth by noon

Down

1 Film some spirit,

holding nothing

2 Climber gets lift behind

part of church

3 Test set in hexameters

5 Heard a girl give woeful cry

6 Ready, as a boxer, or very

closely (Three words)

7 Stem betting

on equipment

8 Don’t move to delay

photograph (Two words) 9 Placate or corrupt

a queen

15 Left coal production

in the vicinity

18 Delicate and fine,

swimming around lake

19 Just a nuisance,

having a man

20 Show contempt for a

roasting rod