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 1153, The Mail on Sunday, PO Box 3451, Norwich NR7 7NR. Entries must arrive by Friday, May 31 (photocopies not accepted). The winner’s name will be published on June 16 from the first correct entry drawn.

Winner of Bare Bones No 1150 Stephen Drury, of Wimborne, Dorset.

Across

7 All right to include a large ending

8 Consented to a vice

11 Name right

for a dealer

12 Code cracked with

strange propriety

13 Captured a yeti?

About time

15 Seldom seen, and

not well done

16 William provided

an invoice

18 Ready to become solid 21 Sketch woman putting

on a bit of weight 22 A marine trained

in the country

23 Walk like a small ogre 24 Play on words –

his new discipline

Down

1 Social occasion for key target area – politicians (Two words) 2 List an item of furniture 3 Poet takes in European

face furniture

4 Robust writer

5 Gown for loud music

6 Testify one was at the panda enclosure (Two words) 9 Game never ends –

it’s a farce

10 In the morning, repeatedly having gal changing union 14 Answer returned,

say, in time

17 Worry about

offspring

18 Son finding shopping centre unimportant

19 Volunteers to go round some current resort

20 Improve a repair