BARE BONES

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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 Ply used in quick ceremonial display 5 Figure time has been included for law 9 Surgeon’s first heart gets an adhesive label 10 A couple of notes on drum played before having shorts

12 Rod gets terribly lax, needing energy

13 Fix unending stream on Tuesday

14 Foreigner has two-thirds of the bird 15 The first to mix fur and grass

17 Fool admits second turn 19 Fire found in container 21 Wrongly call Frenchman as mine got broken 22 Piece of information – soldiers take turn road-surfacing

23 Doctor near confusion, but he has experience 24 Happening during quiet section

Down

2 Source of rubber is overdue – getting cross 3 Protester and dodgy dealer seen around the garden (Two words)

4 Woman has a right to cut

6 Handle a nice surprise 7 Cause a motto to be used for a condiment (Two words)

8 Organised tour around key royal house

11 Use a shroud, by the sound of it

16 Join military group to the east

17 Volunteers to go round some current resort

18 Wit upset church more than once

20 Case of most affluent first couple disappearing