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 fourway symmetry: both top and bottom and left and right match, so you can fill in 12 more squares straight away.

ACROSS

5 Newspaper item takes recital apart 8 Mention two points to sporting judge 11 Prevent from going into pub 12 British fellow joins church for equilibrium 13 Enjoy a spot of archaeology 14 Due round a part of a large building 15 Adjustment of direction in wood 20 Rule that is flawed internally 21 Use live performance that’s hard to find 22 Pressure to get a French joke 23 Father finds unknown mistake in employee’s receipt 24 Told to be part of the family

DOWN

1 Graduate trained mob to dance 2 Room to put old instrument 3 Eccentric gets to start the engine 4 Important to include English and European colour 6 Worth formulating a method that’s expendable 7 Caribbean scoundrel finds a part of a shoe (Two words) 9 At liberty to turn towards coast 10 Socialist vehicle gets favourite privileged treatment (Two words) 16 Inclination to take animal feed to middle of field 17 Knock hospital producing useless material 18 Lie about a piece of thread 19 Disparaging team about champion’s final