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

ACROSS

1 Firework often found in salad 4 Vacation taken in an alcove 10 Summary, up to a point, is exact 11 List has space for sound 12 Sketched prince without article 13 Gain knowledge of renal layout 14 Small and pale, and it has a long neck 15 Wary about going off course 16 Working as doctor, having a dance 17 Worry about line found on neck 21 I am back after European caught argument 22 The first registered benefit of toil 23 Come out east and join 24 Church by the French railway plant

DOWN

1 Quick to knock with some identification 2 Mr Bruce Lee cooked Eastern dessert (Two words) 3 Give out the wrong time 5 The bird in the other nest 6 Joint musical is a lot of hard work (Two words) 7 Lacking leniency at the back 8 Bearing engineers to disputed enclave 9 Particular quality at a testimonial 15 Quite enough to have a beer with a politician 18 Agree to have time with friend 19 Second face is excessively complacent 20 Less-than-exciting meat recipe