>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: AN ENTRANCE
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 Pay attention to
2 Randomly select
3 Sly or crafty
4 Chinese currency
5 Typical pattern
6 Considerable number
7 Perform a ballad
8 Charming
9 Injure badly
10 Ancient South American civilisation
11 Gifts to the poor
12 Word with “assured”
13 It waves
14 Vacant spaces
15 Thick bunch of grass
16 Shower with love
>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 letters are different. This week’s hint: WCZCV is 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
