>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: TREE WITH AROMATIC LEAVES
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 Stringed music instrument
2 Look sulky
3 Crop
4 Submissive
5 Sikh bangle
6 Run . . . (out of control)
7 Pavement edge
8 Make beer
9 Pinion
10 Hindu spiritual teacher
11 Loosen (a tie)
12 Egg-shaped
13 Calm interval
14 Buddhist priest
15 Taj Mahal city
16 Feverish shivering
>CRYPTO QUOTE
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: LOV is WHO.
>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
