WORD JUMBLE
Which British artist holds the exclusive licence to use the ‘blackest black’ paint, Vantablack? Unscramble each group of letters to discover six UK artists. Now fit them across the grid and you’ll spell out the answer to the question.
1 SANK BY
2 NO ABC
3 THREW HOP
4 HEY CONK
5 YR OWL
6 DE FUR
SUDOKU
To solve the puzzle, each 3 x 3 box, each column and each row must contain the numbers 1 to 9.
SPIRAL XWORD
Qidra (using butter) and muqawlli (using olive oil) are two styles of preparing what North African dish? The
answer to each clue (apart from the first) begins with the last letter of the
preceding answer. The shaded squares will spell out the one-word answer.
1 1997 Wes Craven horror film (6)2 _ Crook, star (9)3 World’s highest mountain (7)4 Unlikely story (4,4)5 Attempt, endeavour (6)6 Meal bought to be eaten elsewhere (8)7 Shouted (6)8 Dick _, villain (9)9 ‘Alas, poor _! I knew him, Horatio.’ Hamlet quote (6)10 Green-fleshed fruit with brown hairy skin (4,5)11 Large-beaked South American bird (6)12 Biblical ark builder (4)13 _ chorus from Handel’s (10)14 Capital of Vietnam (5)15 Fictional, pretend (9)16 Showing signs of tiredness or boredom (7)
