>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: SORE
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 Fruit of a pine tree
2 Strays
3 Visionary person
4 The . . . McCoy
5 Autumn dropping
6 Roll up neatly
7 Ewe youth
8 Wild area
9 Freshwater lake
10 Inferno
11 British aristocrat
12 Circular shape in a piece of string
13 Tropical tree
14 A spice
15 Needle case
16 Showy spring flower
>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