YOU PUZZLES
>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: SPECIAL WHISKY
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 Top; finest
2 Petty quarrel
3 Plant produced via spores
4 Sushi seaweed
5 Alpine goat
6 Covered garden walk
7 Mummy’s home
8 Farm shed
9 Standard; usual
10 Cold, creamy sauce (short)
11 Spoken or verbal
12 Non-ordained
13 Pleasantly cold
14 Luxurious car (short)
15 Do as told
16 “Watch . . . step!”
>SUDOKO
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 and each 3x3 box.
MEDIUM
>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
