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

Across

5 District branch has gold interior 7 Talk about city getting old form of transport 10 Elderly fellow starts to cease trading 11 European with tax return has power, though he lives abroad 12 Trim a short bit of film 13 Basically, where Brazil is to be found (Three words) 16 Quantity of oil wasted behind back of derrick 17 A width has sadly become flooded 18 Penny has clue about student lacking colour 19 Split in road, as back in eastern desert 20 Destroy borders with unpleasant lineage

Down

1 Party, and not for a benefactor 2 Googled one’s new continuous source of income (Two words) 3 Irritable couple reported an edible orange fruit (Two words) 4 Fool to get involved with one sheet of paper 6 Naive, returned for some money 8 Start eating some grass, then go to bed (Three words) 9 Reuse a plastic endlessly, regarding area 14 Child works underground, by the sound of it 15 An appealing sort of angle