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. 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 1060, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, August 12 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on August 28 from the first correct entry drawn. Winner of Bare Bones No 1057: Mrs J Harrup, of Southend-On-Sea, Essex.

Across

1 Shows respect behind

the Spanish joints

4 Lively as a warbler

9 A noise has time

to surprise

12 Solved clues about

one small scale

14 Hearsay about organ

15 Still uncharitable,

having some food

16 Arabs running around

Middle Eastern city

17 Copy its head – friend

captures it

18 Food and drink

20 Artist takes one old

judge some wine

22 Say nothing – it shows

self-importance

23 Not one – three

– in trouble

25 All are drunk on

English beer

(Two words)

27 Quantity for a horse

28 A loud, reasonable

matter

Down

2 City can produce

obsolete language

3 Twins have to come first

5 Immense, losing gold

– initial colour

6 Noses getting

award, we hear

7 Resentment given weight

– it should be removed

8 Seal acted oddly

and grew

10 Loosen and

get divorced?

11 Important match of

French drink

12 Inventor of strange reactor

13 Party time around

island country

19 Truth is, a doctor turned,

following cricket team

21 Old fellow joined

third foreigner

24 One wasted a lot of time

26 Feel fractious about

supernatural being