>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: OUTPUT DEVICE
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 Breathe in flavoured steam
2 Jug handles
3 Utter unclearly
4 Oil driller’s constructions
5 Go by water
6 Red ink amount
7 Leak slowly
8 Dispense liquid
9 Raise (children)
10 Got up
11 Fencing sword
12 Engrave with acid
13 Feeling insulted
14 Bathing sites
15 Four-way . . .
16 Physical suffering
>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
>CRYPTOQOUTE
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 are