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

1 Made a scratch and

gained a point

5 Wager everyone

comes in to dance

10 Very appealing, layabout going round

11 Legal people with

chickens outside

12 Whistle to give Philip

energy

13 Loud note played

outside, frequently

14 Couple to mend first couple to leave

15 Had us troubled

about dirt 17 Piles into new shape

18 Does edit poems

22 Mere lad wearing jewel

23 Dealing with snack, having prolonged success (Three words)

24 First character turned

Terry into a vital supplier

25 Hesitate to make

key change

Down

2 Cold, swelling in thicket

3 Stagger to see a film

4 Repeatedly, as shown by

calendar (Three words)

5 Speculator with alien evidence is impervious to harm 6 Student was

breaking rules

7 Point name out for

invasive procedure

8 Don’t waste time and impede car’s design (Two words)

9 Consequently like a

solution (Three words)

16 The woman finds

queen transparent

19 Took the car to

Dover, unusually

20 Look at most of

graceful animal

21 Global language around

dinner dance