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. There is a prize of a Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus set, and a Bradford’s Crossword Solver’s Dictionary. Send your solution to: Bare Bones Puzzle No 919, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, November 29 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on December 15 from the first correct entry drawn. Winner of Bare Bones No 916: Mr R. Caines, of Poole, Dorset.
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Across
5 Sob uncontrollably, being fat 7 Give an assurance prisoner is with company 9 Laugh all about new Dutch leader and his country 11 Lecture at a specific location 12 Heard officer and tsar organising sports (Two words) 15 Chap like this put in railway stonework 17 Dirty mollusc going round a lake
19 Parliamentary stage of debate somewhere in Berkshire 20 Weapon generates anger in ranch
Down
1 Companion puts oxygen in mixture of metals 2 Study covers a faculty head 3 Staff has a way to travel 4 Cleaner has a brief encounter 6 Light material, bad as wool, breaking (Two words) 8 Initially, friend works on a ship (Two words) 10 Lady wandered around island on a regular basis 11 Finally doesn’t finish a worldly book 13 A vixen’s head appearing in bird shelter 14 Dishonest remark about indigestible material 16 Eccentric leader lost high social position 18 Pound left, missing last old penny