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 four-way symmetry: both top and bottom and left and right match, so you can fill in 12 more squares straight away.
Across
1 Outlandish claim about
American show
5 Ease dad out of
a lake (Two words)
9 Grasp argument
involving a relaxing place 10 Got comfortable, putting small light behind home
11 Colour of unpredictability 12 Recall about
underground space
13 Answers about next deity 14 Left inside, she’s a
terrible nuisance
17 Using brain, you start
in base two 21 Poor balance around
a sphere
22 Deduce negative
response from flames
23 Holding racket inside
24 Force her family to have
something pickled
25 Feature that’s intellectual
in the East End
Down
1 Tom’s broken more
than half
2 Brandish small fish
3 Supporter of light
murder weapon
4 Seal off river in a
bit of light
5 Model taken with mouth 6 Somehow needs a month with plenty more of that (Three words)
7 Rinse out a
warning device
8 Maid exchanged with a
similar attendant
15 Risk not starting walk 16 Delicate and fine,
swimming around lake 17 Boat uncovered
with guile, initially
18 Navigation aid that
looks both ways?
19 Boy gets key for
composition
20 A novel, a second time