Keyword clue: STRANGE OR ODD
>SPIRAL
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 Chicken part
2 Maths chart
3 Girlfriend; fruit
4 Somerset . . .
(SA town)
5 Mr and Mrs . . . (Roald Dahl characters)
6 Step on someone’s . . .
7 Ticket part you keep
8 Modern journal
9 Steady radiance
10 Show signs of age
11 Autumn tool
12 Heroic poem
13 Copy; cot
14 Gooey lump
15 Talk big
16 Location of Egypt’s pyramids
>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
