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

5 Dressing, up against the wall

8 Fashionable side performing (Two words, hyphenated)

11 Strange spirit

12 Horse gets food with nothing on top

13 Kind of milkman

14 Canoe unsuitable for so much water

15 Useful husband also unknown

20 Who doubts about whether it holds bricks?

21 Greek character is able to point and bend

22 Crawler, when quiet

23 Group finds bed next to lake

24 Dialect used in fortress

Down

1 Afford a supplementary item

2 Belief in credit notes

3 Minor route, but wide

4 Benefit, capturing new turncoat

6 Mary acted badly as a student (Two words)

7 Routine performer on top of sink? (Two words)

9 Guardian breaking garden pot

10 Worker is after fraction – hardly new (Two words, hyphenated)

16 Reporter follows son into cabin

17 Fix unending stream on time

18 Parade takes thirty-one days

19 Knock over small tablet