BARE BONES

A COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS SET, AND A BRADFORD’S CROSSWORD SOLVER’S DICTIONARY

WIN

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 Drink that brings

trouble, we hear

8 Almost too eager to make a loud entrance (Two words)

10 Rushed out of France

11 Tune by rugby player in pressurised compartment

12 Her pal, a

strange artist

13 Two tenors in do-ityourself song

14 The first ritual is

hackneyed

19 Capital report on

knockout king 20 Boy getting one depressed and put out of action (Two words)

21 My essay includes

a response

22 Identification of magenta construction (Two words)

23 Storming around hill Down

1 Waterway is capable,

next to a lake

2 Confirm, and tolerate, comedian joining head (Two words)

3 Smashed and penniless

4 Bird to sort out

kipper, initially 5 Order spare tablet and

a piece of armour

6 Fish in the corner

8 Reserve, to a man, is a voucher (Two words)

9 Forbidding sign – that’s annoying about work (Two words)

15 Complies to honour

unknown society

16 Quick look over piano,

to be economical

17 Husband lost out, before showing laziness

18 Vowed to get

worse, sadly