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 Hitch to small horse

4 Sophisticated, except

around university

7 Firm doesn’t have

one traded in

9 Cause amazement

by juggling nuts

10 Sound idea

got reversed

11 Stick to association

12 Braved changing a word

13 Roam, say, and marvel

14 Caught husband getting a bit overweight

18 Next to bed is unusual direction

20 Lied about being lazy

21 Sound system doesn’t start to irritate

22 Ring round for a smile

23 Cater for a satellite broadcast

24 Loans arranged at

the hairdresser’s

25 Yet worried about

his first pronoun

Down

2 Famous as a

piece of music?

3 Redhead with money

for some food

4 Firework usually

encountered damp

5 Assistants working

out ideas 6 Provide conclusion with old wife

7 Another look at clairvoyance (Two words)

8 Behold application for a parasite

15 Avoid commitment to a boundary

16 Listeners following, unknown for ages

17 Advisory group left sheet of glass in front

18 Order supplies through getting united at home (Two words)

19 Nonsense without last spin