13 PAGES OF FUN & GAMES
>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: A RICH CAKE
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 Tale of the gods
2 Six (prefix)
3 Peak
4 Long portico (in ancient Greece)
5 In good order
6 Small sailing vessel
7 Respiratory organ
8 Micro-organism
9 Medieval weapon
10 Unbleached linen
11 Japanese noodle
12 Back and . . . massage
13 Kublai . . .
14 Cosy place
15 Like Goliath
16 Better . . . than never
>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