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 948, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, June 19 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on July 5 from the first correct entry drawn. Winner of Bare Bones No 945: Robert Arthur Palin, of Crosby, Merseyside.
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Across
1 Rodents enclosure initially missing in cold time (Two words) 4 In igloo, Myles is sad 9 Stand up, getting one pound back? Absurd 12 Point learnt about being ever-lasting 14 Fellow is miserly, losing Euro 15 Trade includes Frenchman, in a sense 16 Blood around small shrub 17 Lugs ale around for a bird 18 Second part played by fish 20 Cad managed to get laugh when necessary (Two words) 22 Tug back the stomach 23 Experience ground trembling with energy 25 Tom’s den turned out to be furthest 27 Land not registered, or part of it 28 Beast wasted time, in the most optimistic view (Two words)
Down
2 Affair includes the top social group 3 Youngster left Georgia first 5 Rubbish first half is illuminated 6 Underground worker sounds unimportant 7 Fastener made by reporters disturbed dust (Two words) 8 A call’s yet to be sent – they’re wild (Two words) 10 Reinforce a cushion 11 Stop me returning to pub and leave 12 Reportedly regarding lovely bathroom (Two words) 13 Directions on note – come down to Blighty 19 Drove round riding display 21 What an indifferent owl couldn’t give two of 24 Obtained from Reading, otherwise 26 One tampering with trap