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BARE BONES

WIN A COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS SET, AND A BRADFORD’S CROSSWORD SOLVER’S DICTIONARY

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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

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