>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: ACCOLADE
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 Urban pollution
2 All that glitters is not . . .
3 Bowl-shaped roof
4 Greek goddess of discord
5 Stitched line
6 Intelligence
7 Tube for tears
8 Voyage
9 Take a quick look
10 Sulk
11 Academic period
12 Flying insect
13 Like dried cement
14 . . . Poets Society (Robin Williams movie)
15 Manure
16 Insincerely eloquent
>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
>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.