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
7 Finding silver in mud is an optical illusion 8 Accommodation suitable for an artist 11 New test includes an upper-class disease 12 Instinct finds target, missing a beat 13 Sticking with a twitch 15 Elizabethan decoration is sketchy, by the sound of it
16 Wife throws drunkard out, being a studious person 18 Honest about the small number 21 Yearn to show respect for a weapon
22 Bringing up fruit – grapefruit, initially 23 Ready for a brew, say, on sofa
24 Parking, then on to frivolous predicament
Down
1 After filing away, provide some assistance (Three words)
2 Mock the first relative 3 Put additive in – don’t eat a lot of food
4 Jelly for crawler in charge 5 British turn speed into unwanted material 6 Conflict in the bedding department (Two words) 9 Unimaginative lie about mixing rest first
10 In culvert, I got a form of giddiness
14 Trendy new pub
17 Sailor had food to cool off
18 Youngster gets brimless bowler on time
19 Pure fluid gets temperature to break out 20 Note that can be played either way