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 Permission to brew ales? Everything must go

(Two words)

10 Persist in talking about

old weapon

11 I must order sodium in,

an overwhelming amount 12 Some formal attire is

a bind

13 Aristocrat of the

French game

15 Enjoy wagging tail,

using fingers

17 Cinders is forced

to cancel

21 New title follows second

– ‘King Pin’ 25 Read only about trouble 26 Soldier almost left model 27 Modernises

cheerful appointments

28 Cleaner has phobia about article getting terribly rusted (Two words)

Down

2 Cyril is lost for words

3 Compensate, making a sound

4 Jaunt, sadly, included relatives

5 Quoted edict incorrectly 6 Crooned about wife getting swayed

7 Inclined to have meagre time 8 Get rid of

an outbuilding

9 Stream of brilliance

14 Boy is a star, we hear 16 Pair, knitting, has

to irritate

17 Ready to redesign pier 18 Rages about officer

19 Back-to-front,

entered bar

20 Time taken by

Scandinavian writer

21 Excellent noise

22 River sees work

attempt missing

23 Let it alter heading

24 Another sentence has

another language