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

1 Politician and promoter take a seat 9 Doctor to turn to German medicine 10 Put an expensive coat on around university association 11 Platform said to have been adapted 12 Readiness not to get involved 14 Any monument can be in a state of disorder 16 Word that is initially meaningful 18 Lutes played with doctor in trip 21 Behold church getting some Scottish water 22 A slab fashioned out of wood 24 Recipe started with a destructive insect 25 Rest created using classified technique (Two words)

DOWN

2 Old ship with new element 3 Make goulash with some beer 4 Give out the wrong time 5 Payment method for a fish 6 Duck and point ride out 7 Very cold, to baffle tundra inhabitant (Two words) 8 Drunken students of the best quality (Two words, hyphenated) 13 A tree, or its bark 15 Catch in one trap 17 Trouble doesn’t start to be different 19 Chap takes top of plant to be a tree 20 Hear a girl’s cry of grief 22 Offer bishop one old penny 23 Car crashed around bend