BARE BONES
A COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS SET, AND A BRADFORD’S CROSSWORD SOLVER’S DICTIONARY
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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.
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 1027, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, December 24 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on January 9 from the first correct entry drawn.
Winner of Bare Bones No 1024: Peter Wood, of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Across 1 Honest, confronted without cracking a smile (Two words, hyphenated)
10 Encourage expert
broadcasting to me
11 Another publication
about children
12 Society nowadays
is miserable
13 Confuses the
first corners
15 Unknown journalist lied about interior and surrendered
17 Cost of sending
pages to rewrite
21 Suffers conclusion
and sure ruin
25 Information in emergency 26 He shows appreciation
for part of bell
27 Attorney loosened without one being shaken
28 Travelling farthest metro when the calm comes (Three words) Down
2 Moving north –
that is sharp
3 A charge to see a
group of coral islands
4 Visitor doesn’t finish
second estimate
5 Dart about, variable
and late
6 Animated a veil badly
7 Stopped, not having
started, relieved 8 Show contempt for a
roasting rod
9 Action that’s reversible
14 Say gymnasts start
some food
16 Nationality has a
bit of charge
17 Put wolves in a suitcase
18 Fracas broke out
without a muffler
19 Sufficient to have
beer with politician
20 Unexpectedly greet bird
21 Provide directions owing
22 Suspicion spread,
but after party
23 Blade that looks the
same both ways
24 Playground item has
no left or right, say