>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: PEOPLE WHO BIRTHED YOU
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 Visionary person
2 Ridge of coral
3 Is the right size
4 Type of mate or music
5 Elevator
6 Kind of gas
7 Beef cut
8 Give a nudge to
9 50%
10 Be anxious
11 Filled tortilla
12 Forget to include
13 Bluish green
14 Lengths of a pool
15 One looking down on others
16 Like floors without rugs
>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