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 Gets a terrible shock, having trouble going on (Two words) 9 Fifty-two cards on the floor 10 Humiliate a centre of operations 11 Time is negative, and its reverse 12 Is not worried about volunteers getting post 13 It’s terribly good, graduates getting marks of disgrace 14 A couple of Frenchmen devised tree gauge 17 London team has weapons at its disposal 21 Dog gets the ultimate remedy 22 Land plane in a totally different way 23 A novel, a second time 24 I traced Asia out, not far from Italy (Two words) Down 2 Go in front and get ready to walk the dog (Three words) 3 Fertiliser starts to gather under a northern osprey 4 Fellow left a wife to defect 5 Sluggish at the interchange? 6 Pineapple angered new worker for starters (Two words) 7 Knowledge initially transformed the Garden of England 8 Telecom advertisements conceal a degree of insensibility 15 Loose scrum at the shopping arcade, we hear 16 Sudden nuisances include a feeling of boredom 18 Souvenir of pure licentiousness 19 Primate gets a kiss at the top 20 Notice tyrant is missing from French 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 923, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Due to Christmas postal disruption, the deadline for entries has been extended to Friday, January 3 (photocopies not accepted). Answers will be printed on January 5 and the winner’s name will be published on January 19 from the first correct entry drawn. Winner of Bare Bones No 920: Mrs Cheryl Kettle, of Stapleton, Shropshire.