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
7 Personal vehicle has transformed top jailer 8 Weapon is back, returned with foreign letter 11 Strike is a success 12 Knock on the left in mutual understanding 13 Your niece is hiding a vase 14 Completely bungled a colour, by the sound of it 15 Be acquainted with negative report 20 Cairo concerned about a fabled creature 21 Worker joining a group of detectives – that’s soothing 22 Couple not getting beginning in tune 23 A score is recalculated and rough 24 Each getting a bit of something
Down
1 He’s quick to respond to a nuclear generator (Two words) 2 Island takes time to be sharply delineated 3 Reaching conclusion, ready to complain 4 Evidence of strength of spirit 5 Parking location outside produces resentment 6 Give striker back in chance for revenge (Two words) 9 The sound of conversation can be filling 10 Warp Ten, travelling around city 16 Clergyman about to put home first 17 Provide guidance for a farmyard animal 18 Fight for what’s left 19 Notice party has to improvise (Two words, hyphenated)