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 1014, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, September 24 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on October 10 from the first correct entry drawn.
Winner of Bare Bones No 1011: T. Brittain, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Across 1 School head was concerned and frightened
5 Arrive with her
empty shiny coat
10 Heard advice from
local authority
11 Problem with
woman is disease
12 Be defeated, even
without starting
13 Concerning a
boxing match
14 Twist key
conclusion
15 Very arduous,
holding length 17 Following hers
about is new
18 Landowner doesn’t
finish hideaway
22 Insect takes fruit
to be food
23 Listener with old
money to put aside
24 Rise when about to finish
25 Piece of advice – appeal
is not having a drink Down
2 Friends much
altered by society
3 Joke about missing
instrument of torture
4 Considered German
domain freed 5 Cautious about using
metric cups
6 Bore about dress
7 Came leering
about commotion
8 Stolen goods outside – summon unknown rascal
9 Deliver rest, say,
as a means to stop
16 Arid order on
small attacks
19 Use a shroud,
by the sound of it
20 Present in
the rehearsal
21 Doctor seeing
work decrease