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 918, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday,
November 22 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on December 8 from the first correct entry drawn. Winner of Bare Bones No 915: Miss K. Stevens, of London EC1Y. NAME .................................................................................................................................. ADDRESS ............................................................................................................................ ................................................................................................................................................ POSTCODE .................................... TELEPHONE ...........................................................
Across
1 Inferior fellow started and rose, say
5 Favourite English students swallowed pill 10 At home, dates used as a substitute
11 Revised riot act for some cheese 12 Mysterious key on old ship
13 Bird getting dressed, losing tail
14 Jog out of bistro, tentatively
15 Collapsed around domed part of church 17 Setting is a bit of an act
18 Incentive provided by a cowboy
22 Develop a pitch about a type of bread 23 Country changes are in another
24 Broken spears are in short supply 25 Overweight, that woman’s relative
Down
2 Roles rewritten for no-hoper 3 Sounds feeble for a few days
4 Medium-busy, emitting dangerous particles
5 Fear pulsing around part of the Arabian Sea (Two words)
6 Bit of hair found in scrum’s second row 7 Come in from barren terrain
8 Deer encounters crane forming an impediment 9 Teacher vital to get a universal means of access (Two words) 16 Second instrument is out of tune
19 Eric managed to pursue parking cost 20 Left atmosphere in a den
21 Line found on neck causes worry