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

7 Tin from Tuscany

8 Opportunity to refuel in worst place – and best (Two words)

10 Criticise a deity

11 Article uses new Greek hero

12 Teach about gold castle abroad

13 Leaving, with hesitation, a proposal

14 Feeling that may be common

19 Formerly object, having caught first arrogance

20 Many managed to ruin country

21 Rent missing initial instalment causes anger

22 The shot is ruined, assuming it’s still on (Two words)

23 Go on at a horse

Down

1 Small beds for some Britons

2 Register and identify part

of the hand (Two words) 3 Hoard split heartlessly by tree

4 Fire has time, a great deal

5 Conciliation – ape’s pet name, oddly

6 Cancel a nun’s strange line

8 Bit breakfast, say, a little at a time

9 Protest site is quiet and effeminate (Two words)

15 Sharp car design

– I would

16 Smell creates a commotion

17 Blow last of talcum into container

18 Draws main road by bend