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 Fails to be sorting out tins 4 Music played without pause by house guest given no shout out 7 Imperfection that turns Miss into a myth 9 Policemen disguised in choice bit of shrubbery (Two words) 10 Hairstyle glimpsed in the middle section of ‘Superman’ 11 Come back again about dog 13 One who digs mass ending with sound of exuberance 14 Snakes seen to be an afterthought 15 Song for Sarah in the afternoon 16 Partially insane Roman emperor 17 Huge fan letter circulated – it describes a film (Hyphenated) 19 Good point of being soft, not hard 20 Leaves boyish attendants 21 Engrossed by traitor seizing power
DOWN 2 Excitedly fuels American writers’ inclusion – it’s exciting 3 Mother confused by figures on heat controls 4 Exercise taking right gym shoe, such as fireman might use (Two words) 5 Posh lass in set 6 Tear off with strange animals – they make noises louder (Two words) 7 Boss taken from Algerian men’s organisation 8 Second arrangement of choral society shows fashionable education 12 One is imprisoned by California lawmen 18 For example good food for breakfast