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 Predator saw harp work in a different way 9 Party city can be gloomy in appearance 10 Doctor first to get a little damp 11 I registered question about a country 12 Claimed to be working with drugs 13 Hate running round after revolutionary feline 14 New rug gets left in pub – criminal 17 Score made from whatever is available 21 Incorporated height, or a tiny part of it 22 Imagine daughter having a lot of paper 23 Heard to have puffed and panted, having got down 24 Charisma displayed by our sun (Two words)

DOWN

2 Final remark leaving host upset (Two words) 3 Strange graduate has an exotic routine 4 Old Frenchman to object to neglect 5 Conspire to devise a hole in the ceiling 6 We have success and chat to Alice’s friend (Two words) 7 Intend if possible to dance with energy 8 Wilt on getting a long prose narrative 15 Ghoul naturally holding a bit of an arm 16 Shrub lad cultivated with hesitation 18 Arrived with large, long-necked mammal 19 Prompt pupil included a piece of evidence 20 Soldiers find acceptable range of food