The Scottish Mail on Sunday

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

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