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 Sensible puritan, by the book 5 Mistake for every item of indoor wear 9 Hormone repeatedly fashionable with second university student 10 Sailor delivering oil has quiet scrap 12 Creamy dessert for an idiot 13 Text raved about minor actor 14 Old soldiers given a sign 15 The picture contains a very long story 17 Without a sign of mathematics 19 Feet treated to a celebration 21 In war, even general found retribution 22 Bengali turned more European 23 Insect has some time to object to vitamin 24 Figure time is included for decree

DOWN

2 Donor composed a form of music 3 Drink to the best type of dairy product (Two words) 4 One is disturbed by a racket 6 Left one item of underwear as a sign 7 Hostilities carried out in the boudoir (Two words) 8 Follow directions and institute legal proceedings 11 Good man writing material that causes a fuss 16 Section that’s quiet, we hear 17 May show form of strength 18 Steel affected by cold weather 20 Characteristic of small bird captivating artist