BARE BONES

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 British traitor was a spoilt child 4 Wife sent mail to Mrs Flintstone 7 Bob sees nothing in cricket 9 Look for a small tin 10 Variety of paint that’s hardly appropriate 11 Rose in the form of a Greek deity 12 Run to see second picture 13 Refuse to accept sister’s new arrangement 14 Mean, at home, to nurse 18 Almost bringing up some fruit 20 Make an attempt to use a knife 21 Owner of land gets fat going round island 22 Tunic hardly going round cleaning lady 23 Owls fly, but not remotely fast 24 Crawler who’s good at sums 25 Always in the same version

DOWN

2 Go over main points of wild caper 3 Sent in to sort out joint complaint (two words) 4 Start to hand writs out 5 Left to relax a contract 6 Croat developed as a thespian 7 Give friends clothes in part of the theatre (Two words) 8 Pass over a religious sign 15 African place of birth 16 Daughter terribly late reaching end of river 17 Youngster gets caught, concealed around lake 18 Navigation aid that looks both ways 19 Buccaneer loses head, getting angry