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

1 Untruths about baby – that’s an understatement 5 Graduate isn’t worried about old supporter

9 Same level within department

10 One included hard pebbles

11 Run off to get a receptacle 12 Remove from

French channel

13 Rowers on

Humber’s first bit

14 Rapped about being well-dressed 17 Demean young lady on sea excursion 21 Garland from arable island 22 Endless beer with party game 23 The arrangement has a listener 24 Engineers’ small desire to rise again 25 Makes trellis to hold a bird

Down

1 Inclination not to start walk 2 Reticent during quieter sermon 3 The first matter – daily wrapping (Two words)

4 Show contempt, getting student upset

5 Strange bulge in piece of brass

6 Glib, he sells unusual percussion (Two words) 7 Instinctively know there’s no time for northerner

8 Not a single devout woman, by the sound of it

15 A young woman is wrong 16 Get up with new hair dye 17 Had a glass – distasteful, initially, and disgusting 18 Guide a bullock

19 Insult indistinctly

20 Spoken of morality