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. 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 910, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, September 27 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on October 13 from the first correct entry drawn. Winner of Bare Bones No 907: Mr P Jamieson, of Eccleshall, Staffordshire. name .................................................................................................................................. address ............................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................................................ postcode .................................... telephone ...........................................................
Across
1 Noticed stud breaking carpenter’s product 5 Scandalous allegations on apartment seen at low tide 9 Worried when security device is used 10 Surpass a heavenly event 12 Go down, we hear, in togetherness 13 Top larcenist always has a jemmy 14 Miracle followed about a key 15 Slide for small child 17 Training baboon to do without man 19 Notice the absence of a young woman 21 Frenchman drove the cab to see the Scottish play 22 Court finds male working in bed 23 Get upset about terrible tune for a long time 24 Productive redevelopments start in iron and slate
Down
2 Glen lost head in the backstreet 3 Bank arrangement makes guide order bidet (Two words) 4 Explosive found on the beach 6 Cruel sort of complaint 7 Reasonable thing for a blonde to say (Two words) 8 I will be heard in the passage 11 Keep away from an empty space 16 Scoundrel often encountered in deck 17 Put off animal, about time 18 The French greeting gives permission 20 Earth around Portsmouth’s top ruin