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

7 Triumph by the French pair

8 Almost bringing up fruit

11 Previous note is wrong – I, myself, followed

12 Artist changing evermore, losing nothing

13 Owing to condensation, say

15 Way out of planet

16 One very loud variable is unsure

18 Sticking a plaster around opening

21 Put boron round – it doesn’t do anything

22 Number is returned – kiss adolescent

23 Charge for a couple of notes on application

24 Latest news is brief

Down

1 Macron ended assembly in expressive style (Two words)

2 Earth around Pompey’s first ruin

3 Having used a needle, she heartlessly got married

4 After midnight, dance party got serious

5 Sign of current support behind student

6 Team belongings are unfortunate symptoms (Two words)

9 Model needs work on small lumps

10 Mary translated a book for insect (Two words)

14 Woman in a French article

17 Information on American type

18 Old king takes in single doomed person

19 Show-off quietly used different layout

20 In box, I delivered a chemical