SPIRAL
Keyword clue: FIRE’S FIRST RESPONDER
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 Clever comment
2 Limerick, eg
3 Not nice
4 Neck area
5 Design on metal
6 Axe handle
7 Slight quarrel
8 Fiasco
9 Mountain trail
10 Six (prefix)
11 Indian vocal music
12 Not the present or future
13 Cut off small amounts
14 Waiter’s handout
15 Muslim community as a whole
16 Area measure
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.
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
