>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: FLOWERING PLANT Keyword clue: TWO DAYS OFF FOR MOST
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 Serving bowl
2 Make silent
3 Large group of elephants
4 Consider
5 Test grade
6 Drop, place or tap . . . (rugby)
7 Be familiar with
8 Hardships
9 Read quickly
10 Unkind
11 Nothing (US informal)
12 Military no-show (abbr)
13 Onion-like vegetable
14 Flat brown seaweed
15 Long-lasting curly hairstyle
16 Submissive
>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.
MEDIUM
>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:
