YOU PUZZLES

>SPIRAL

Keyword clue: OBVIOUS OR FLAGRANT

Starting with clue No 1, fill in the grid in a clockwise direction with four-letter words, working your way to the centre of the spiral puzzle. The last letter of each word becomes the first letter of the next. If you’ve correctly filled in the grid, there should be a seven-letter keyword reading across from clue No 8.

1 Shape
2 Service; crowd
3 Saddle or sofa
4 Five years, for an SA president
5 Posted items
6 Newton’s . . . of motion
7 Arrogant person
8 Lip lotion
9 Fail to notice
10 Shortly
11 Cranny’s partner
12 Door handle
13 Storage organ of a daffodil
14 Political alliance
15 Leg part
16 Apartment

>CRYPTOQUOTE

Example: AXYDLBAAXR is: LONGFELLOW

One letter stands for another. In the example above, A is used for the three Ls, X for the two Os and so on. Single letters, apostrophes, the length and formation of the words are all hints. Each week the code letters are different. This week’s hint: HZBDVGB is BREATHE.

>SUDOKU

These number puzzles are quite simple. Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that the same number appears only once in each row, each column