SPIRAL
Keyword clue: FLOWERING PLANT
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 Dictionary entry
2 Connect the . . .
3 Hoax
4 Fit together harmoniously
5 Stack
6 Slangy refusal
7 Put below deck
8 Distort or buckle
9 Persian fairy
10 9th Greek letter
11 Intends to
12 Member of an Indian religion
13 Fish trap
14 Green fruit
15 Eye’s coloured part
16 Ego
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.
HARD
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: UCGPUCU is DECIDED.
VOWELLESS PUZZLE
All the vowels have been removed from
