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 Breaking code gets

one student obedient

4 Discover a deep sound 10 Investigate old myths

about parking

11 Encourage to turn over and drink (Two words)

12 Satisfy son had food

13 Solved clue about

new relative

14 Bully doesn’t finish

not being sweet

15 Run off to get

a fastening

16 Quick to be a satirist

17 Insect of biting nature 21 The Beasts, or

another 60s group

22 One goth, terribly

busy (Three words)

23 Spanish city, sadly looted 24 Turns and dances

Down

1 Unfortunately tied to

small selections of food

2 Heard excellent mass in seat of power (Two words)

3 Creature of pride

5 Encourage our

general outside

6 Campanologists that sound familiar (Two words, hyphenated) 7 Old Irishman

is an emigre

8 Economical concerning girl

(Two words, hyphenated)

9 Stomach failure in the pool (Two words, hyphenated) 15 Craft accommodates

second crow

18 Implements for

constructing stool

19 Succeeded getting

help, as mentioned 20 Darn! Last of condiment went in casserole