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 942, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, May 8 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on May 24 from the first correct entry drawn. Winner of Bare Bones No 939: Mr Walter Cook, of Burnley, Lancashire. Across 1 A crass broadcast initially merited derision 5 Poles putting god outside for consistency 9 Raving about having English condiment 10 Claims to work with universal entertainment 12 Dress goat in a novel way 13 Time to return impoverished soldier 14 Most unexcited about a sequence of notes 15 Throw the first ring onto ship 17 Thud made by fellow with swelling 19 Catch sight of European agent 21 Son has turn to make cheese 22 Operating system also free – there’s nothing in it 23 Learned rite, due to be changed 24 Fellow generated heat below Down 2 New aim – leave as a friend 3 Emperor returned as boy produced food (Two words) 4 Hardly any hypocrisy after schools start 6 Furnish the ending with a joke 7 Segregation ordered for dragon-slayer (Two words) 8 Coach in art management 11 Concentrate on what a camera can do 16 Internet transmitter doesn’t start in exterior 17 TV detective seen on winter mornings 18 Writer goes to church for money 20 Beer contains a colouring meant for walls