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. There is a prize of a Collins English Dictionary and Thesaurus set, and a Bradford’s Crossword Solver’s Dictionary. Send your solution to: Bare Bones Puzzle No 1050, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, June 3 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on June 19 from the first correct entry drawn.

Winner of Bare Bones No 1047: Sue Grant, of Northallerton, North Yorkshire. Across 7 Implement found

in shoes

8 Organisation making

trap function

10 Sick of silliness

11 Joke about woman

being a moralist

12 Tribes getting energy, and more energy, free

13 Heresy, nodding about

religious assembly

14 Reprimand is small

and indifferent

19 Notice pal folded

some paper 20 Happy to have

parking contracted

21 Prompt remedy

has run out

22 Speaker and online

communicator

23 Roderick has

some poetry

Down

1 Punishes political

representatives

2 Grease aptly applied to heavenly entrance (Two words)

3 Cast untrained about

dangerous feat

4 Coercion used by police 5 Quiet, not so much on musical instruction (Two words)

6 Loud fabrications

from pilots

8 Hold on, it’s slower

(Three words)

9 Driver’s instruction is obvious behind castle (Two words)

15 Dot gets second kiss 16 Dread ordering

a snake

17 Pressure in location

produces malice

18 Wastes time,

using slide