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 Having no money by
noon, not working
8 River animal
is a scoundrel
11 Drink of character,
by the sound of it
12 Excessively red, moving right as required (Two words)
13 Not going back
a great deal
14 Beams in lift,
reportedly
15 Accidental
place to live
20 Limit on international
appearance 21 Deceive on more than one occasion (Two words, hyphenated)
22 Make a record out
of a piece of wood
23 Making holes is dull
24 Musical-sounding
country
Down
1 Oily utensil in
cafe (Two words)
2 Second woman
to have fish
3 Small, agreeable gesture about old hood
4 Cats, in large number,
showing conceit 5 Singular sailors
make celebrities
6 Inability to remember
mad hunk (Two words)
9 Draw a stretch of
land? About time
10 Tons about time
for performing
16 Mark isn’t wandering
around area
17 Like this, initially guilty, heartless guy becomes mushy
18 Being out
on a spree
19 Yields plant ovules,
we hear