>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: FLOWERING PLANT Keyword clue: CHILDREN’S PLAY AREA
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 have correctly filled in the grid there should be a seven-letter keyword reading across from clue No 8.
1 In addition
2 Swearing-in pledge
3 Warmth
4 Half a matched set
5 Current events
6 Give the cold shoulder
7 Night fliers
8 Indian wrap
9 Greek letter before kappa
10 Opposing (prefix)
11 Frosted a cake
12 St Bernards, eg
13 Thick bunch of grass
14 Sauces served with chips
15 Unwanted email
16 Repair
>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.
HARD
>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