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 Prisoner wrong to get out of shape 7 Withdraw from race due to superficial injury 10 Item moving in the fourth dimension 11 Reticent person gets one right 12 Left fool something basic to eat 13 Buy a few drinks and loiter aimlessly (Three words) 16 Vegetable gets large, earnest entreaty 17 Article about island initially fascinates acquisitive criminal 18 Accordingly have something to fasten with 19 Final engraving involves hat and pipe 20 Mad sort – mad for celebrity status
DOWN
1 Bird getting dressed endlessly 2 Celebration that gets in the way (Two words) 3 Shouting at eccentric for form of identification (Two words) 4 Fight to get some waste material 6 Rushing to overturn pundit’s recommendation (Two words) 8 Embark from something? Don’t make me laugh (Three words) 9 Mother left a song by way of a complaint 14 Inclination to set top pace 15 Bishop finds space for a shrub