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 Inheritance share split – that’s the difference with kids (Two words)

10 Note is similar to hate

11 Old and sick, a politician

needs light (Two words) 12 Compendium includes

its own writer

13 A storm of a play

15 Draw points for a team 17 Sycophant joins

queen in trailer

21 Learns about containing

key defamation

25 Perform in practice

26 Bohemian finds

decrease unacceptable 27 Tear-jerker accommodating irrational belief

28 Ensure my abode’s layout is too much (Two words)

Down

2 Mopes about

at meeting

3 Chosen the Spanish

tie design

4 Nowadays, pet is

trained to be skilful

5 Sarcasm may be

like a metal

6 Tony longed to

hold material

7 Corrupt a foundation 8 Strange diet to prepare

for publication

9 Copies of tapestries

14 Regard for diocese

16 Everything found

in gallery

17 Yield a plant ovule, say 18 Run off to

form a union

19 Hop off to get a picture 20 Assessed trade

incorrectly

21 Weight of rock

22 Sign fluctuates,

but not initially

23 Washing device is

more deadpan

24 Call for some jewellery