BARE BONES
A COLLINS ENGLISH DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS SET, AND A BRADFORD’S CROSSWORD SOLVER’S DICTIONARY
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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 School’s first head taking notice in misery
5 Walk for a month
7 Gaps in entireties, we hear
10 Study of wide nature
11 Rapper gets the bird
12 A French tap – terribly inappropriate
13 I’d get in, somehow eating sensibly
15 Like a family
16 Bit of seaweed in range, right?
17 Sack fellow emergency worker 21 Victor misses front part of target
22 Put out in dejection
23 Deity inside, being odd
24 Bear in the first whirlpool
25 Time single daughter got fit
26 Sausages from Greek island
Down
1 Herds meandering a bit
2 Duck, awfully odd, say, returning
3 Hidden nuisances include boredom
4 Show indifference to a short jacket
5 Invented confectionery and amassed a fortune (Three words)
6 Crumbling, aged liner given former position
8 Shade setting angel free (Two words)
9 Utter a sad broadcast, soaking
14 Peg is a character, we hear
17 Heard expression unravels
18 Girl worried about English star
19 Term of respect that’s reversible
20 Sent off to second homes