>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: MINTY OIL
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 Film excerpt
2 Highly proper
3 Breakfast or lunch
4 Mischievous Norse god
5 Ninth Greek letter
6 Declare openly
7 Sudden fancy
8 Intellect
9 Defective things
10 Unaccompanied flight
11 Likelihood
12 Chunk of concrete
13 Fluid-filled blister
14 Wet, muddy areas
15 Tool building
16 Impact mark
>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: ODKZX is GLORY.
>VOWELLESS PUZZLE
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