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 1013, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, September 17 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on October 3 from the first correct entry drawn.
Winner of Bare Bones No 1010: Frank Oswell, of Ashington, Northumberland.
Across
1 School’s first head taking notice in misery
5 Walk for a month
7 Gaps in entireties,
we hear
10 Study of wide nature
11 Rapper gets the bird
12 A French tap –
terribly inappropriate
13 I’d get in, somehow
eating sensibly
15 Like a family
16 Bit of seaweed
in range, right?
17 Sack fellow
emergency worker 21 Victor misses front
part of target
22 Put out in dejection
23 Deity inside, being odd
24 Bear in the
first whirlpool
25 Time single
daughter got fit
26 Sausages from
Greek island
Down
1 Herds meandering a bit
2 Duck, awfully odd,
say, returning
3 Hidden nuisances
include boredom
4 Show indifference
to a short jacket 5 Invented confectionery and amassed a fortune (Three words)
6 Crumbling, aged liner
given former position
8 Shade setting angel
free (Two words)
9 Utter a sad
broadcast, soaking
14 Peg is a character,
we hear
17 Heard expression
unravels
18 Girl worried
about English star
19 Term of respect
that’s reversible
20 Sent off to second homes