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 four-way symmetry: both top and bottom and left and right match, so you can fill in 12 more squares straight away.

Across

1 Anxious thug, far off

5 British scene, not

initially gambling

9 Removal includes eggs 10 Break instrument

– the edges

11 Number of contents

12 Reported first

appearances of beds

13 Safe certain to

accommodate two keys 14 Cunning, bad-tempered

woman and daughter

17 European fern flourished

next to church

21 Refusal to include a

lot of land (Initials) 22 Throw a lie about flower 23 Doctor parking for cleaner 24 Stolen post distributed in popular place

(Two words)

25 Edward returned trio

composed for city

Down

1 Preparing of too

much nourishment

2 Staring at a torn page

3 Provide petticoat and

escape (Three words)

4 Time to sort out gaits

5 Boast about vessels

6 Dessert making crate rattle alarmingly

(Two words) 7 Bury in hinterlands

8 Information on

the first fellow

15 The artisan has

concern for others 16 Beethoven’s first duet sent round for first performance

17 Smoothed down

and put away

18 Literary sketch

arrived with nothing 19 Force American

husband to enthuse 20 Notice tyrant has

mislaid first couple