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

7 Appearing to have

something to eat

8 Plea switching a

French article for beer (Two words)

10 A quantity of schooners 11 Holiday right

for a warship

12 Change a topic –

a form of starch

13 Guides providing

things like this

14 Purchase something to chew, say? Blimey! (Two words)

19 Fat son cooked

bits of bacon 20 Heartless sailor with

sufficient squash

21 Has been in new

association

22 Limit support for a curtain accessory (Two words, hyphenated)

23 Initially a cry for help

Down

1 Native American evicts

husband quickly

2 Rascals sued about informal attire (Two words)

3 Get annoyed, passenger having loud top 4 Dish of tribal

timelessness

5 Postpone our arrangement

pointlessly (Three words)

6 Savage fellow left after

a long time

8 Completed military training

and collapsed (Two words) 9 Hollow conversation about used milk bottles? (Two words)

15 Run away as wolf

disturbed knight

16 Pale, like a farm animal

17 Warts developing

on the tube

18 Conversed about

some poetry