>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: ILLUSTRATION EXPLANATION
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 Weight
2 Armada unit
3 Strategy
4 Require
5 A kind of kick
6 Bucket
7 Worldly rather than spiritual
8 Successful overthrow
9 Young salmon
10 Give a face-lift
11 Follow commands
12 About 91 centimetres
13 Grey and gloomy
14 A kind of clef
15 Worm product
16 Fulfilled (promise)
>CRYPTOQUOTE
Example: AXYDLBAAXR is:
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: KWSKRLQRT is CONCEIVED.
>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 and each 3x3 box.
