>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: TERRIBLE, FRIGHTFUL
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 Thick leather
2 Phobia
3 Register of voters
4 Circle of rope
5 Calculator key
6 Native of Belgrade
7 Open, fenced relaxing space at a game lodge
8 Hole makers
9 Plant stalk
10 Enormous (prefix)
11 Minute particle
12 A Chinese dynasty
13 Hurtful remark
14 Outside limit
15 Australian birds
16 Simon . . .
>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
