BARE BONES
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 Summarise universal ingredient in oil reservoir (two words) 4 Signal assent or refusal by Germany 6 Sibling takes note of locations 9 In the event it leads one to give a name 10 Starting price comparatively frozen, getting hotter 11 Hope character of frenzied soprano worked out (three words) 12 Europe sounds off taking in resistance to greens (two words) 16 Nothing helping a grand speech 17 Calm down taking a time in specific location 18 Fish, and what it did after a while 19 Some follow loud hooter 20 Fear doctor has capital with the first bit lost
DOWN
1 Worker cries with second coming first 2 One tram dashing by copper, behind time to get to university 3 Andrew for example evolved into Spartan (two words) 4 Family member heading north, that is to church 5 Diana’s company is a provider of music 6 Lizards & newt found weirdly in mountainous land 7 Survey surprising neutral gait 8 Jaunty son heading up in the country 12 Blemishes? Baron has a great many 13 Nothing sent back to first Monopoly square in a way of speaking 14 Bit of flower half-seen, given to friend 15 Exhaust writer situated in South Dakota.