>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: GRASSHOPPER RELATIVE
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 Cosy
2 Crossword diagram
3 Corgis and pugs
4 Sort of elitist
5 Shrub
6 Damage
7 Posted items
8 Wolfish look
9 One in a million
10 Right on a map
11 Clothing labels
12 Small denomination
13 God of thunder
14 Finger millet
15 Dust jacket ID (abbr)
16 Baby intensive care unit (abbr)
>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 are all hints. Each week the code letters are different. This week’s hint: LXEYGS is SOURCE.
>VOWELLESS PUZZLE
All the vowels