>SPIRAL
Keyword clue: FLOWERING PLANT Keyword clue: COMPETITION
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 Scorch (food)
2 Potato or carrot
3 Orderly
4 Egg yellow
5 Handle
6 Dry, cold wind in France
7 At any time
8 Avenue, eg
9 Rolling in the . . . (Adele song)
10 One of equal rank
11 . . . Madrid (football club)
12 Lavish
13 Icy rain
14 Leg or arm
15 Alliance
16 Spanish sparkling wine
>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
