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 Cease activity for every plug 5 A fiend managed to find time to be rebellious 9 Appropriate to get half the profit 10 Clumsy as an empty gallery 11 Pack itself contains some equipment 12 Rubbish to be found next to cave 13 Fellows sure to move round and feel pain 14 Run to a formal accusation 17 Well for part of the year 21 Still a dad, having a boy 22 A variety of cream takes one to the country 23 Appearing to have something small to eat 24 Try a leg operation in a big way 25 Someone in the orchestra is a swindler
DOWN
1 Locked vault has come to no harm 2 Freshwater animal less cold in the East End 3 Dressing actors in protective cover (Two words) 4 A trio is played out of proportion 5 Decorate a new red ship 6 Playback option is quick and bold (Two words) 7 Beer with new king in joint 8 In France, you double the skirt for dancing 15 Avoid awkward questions on natural barrier 16 Year after glee developed into lament 17 Second argument is rather formal 18 Somehow get plane to land 19 A bullet for a garden pest 20 Left atmosphere in hide-out