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 1009, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, August 20 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on September 5 from the first correct entry drawn.
Winner of Bare Bones No 1006: Alfred Berry, of Kirk Ella, East Yorkshire.
Across
7 Building an offence
within firm
8 Employ article after
sodium sickness
11 At home, old
performance is vague 12 Eccentric bit
of syncopation
13 Trendy joint
15 Consider inside,
empty outside
16 Pal is much
changed
18 Objection to
returning bath 21 Everything around
terribly thin nest
22 Spendthrift lets
war break out
23 Like a garden ornament,
difficult to understand
24 Snow White’s
friend is dozy
Down
1 Hurry to appointment at Ascot, say
(Two words)
2 Last fellow broke nail
3 Point thorn out
4 Son ordered
operation on nose 5 Hits restraints
6 Page entry he wrote about experimental treatment (Two words) 9 Excessive talker
in a dirigible
10 Must turn British
before the French fall 14 Initially a debt
17 In the morning, soldiers return to Greek character
18 Support gets
student gloomy
19 Sprain from dance
20 Pasty as a bird