>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: PRODUCING ABUNDANTLY
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 Tuna holders
2 Move quickly (cloud)
3 Title for Judi Dench
4 Pricing word
5 Pull with a rope
6 Chops off (branches)
7 Essence of a person
8 Toss a coin
9 Bow of a vessel
10 Hole-in-the-... (SA natural phenomenon)
11 Onion cousin
12 A vat for bleaching cloth
13 Scottish dance
14 End of many country names
15 Type of brake
16 Rudely brief
>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.
EASY
>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
