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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 fourway symmetry: both top and bottom and left and right match, so you can fill in 12 more squares straight away.

Across

1 Attribute adds dimension to a type of documentary, for example (Two words, hyphenated) 10 Ancient country clown gets unknown tune backwards 11 Pen new melody for a Roman deity 12 Pet caught by a junction 13 Shop with the French husband – a traitor of biblical proportions 15 Hide fuel out front – it’s waterproof 17 Mistake brings tribe, say, back to river 21 Very happy to have parking contracted 25 The golfer’s conceit 26 College sentiment pursues mythical creature 27 Camera part seen covering window 28 Pup growled, not to be mistaken for a treasonous conspiracy (Two words)

Down

2 Ceaselessly involving a supporter of art 3 Tory-regulated, large part of Austria 4 Get to part of the river 5 Fast old tempo 6 Land plane a different way 7 Resistance encountered in food transport 8 Reportedly forced to be domestic 9 New one generated gas 14 Faced with an expert 16 One to two students is sick 17 Trophy acquires nothing but success 18 Farewell from a French deity 19 Informed after old king joins old band 20 Start again about novel 21 Poses unsuccessfully as lawmen 22 Provide European with a joke 23 Ready to produce an argument (Two words, hyphenated) 24 Sound or music around the bedroom

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 867, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, November 30 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on December 16 from the first correct entry drawn. Winner of Bare Bones No 864: Mr Joseph Armstrong, of Chester-le-Street, Co Durham.